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Niagara corn starch, Wesp, Lautz Bros. & Co., Buffalo, N.Y. [graphic].
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Contributor
Gies & Co. printer.
Title
Niagara corn starch, Wesp, Lautz Bros. & Co., Buffalo, N.Y. [graphic].
Publisher
Buffalo, N.Y. : Gies & Co
Publisher
N.Y. Buffalo. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 13.5 x 8 cm. (5.25 x 3 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy standing in a corn field holding an ear of corn comparable in size to him.
Notes
Advertising text printed on verso promotes Acme soap and Niagara starch as "the purest, the sweetest, the best".
Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Mrs. A. Gelzer, wholesale and retail grocer, N.W. corner of 3d and Green Streets, Philadelphia. Manuscript note above address: Chester. Refers most likely to Loretta Gelzer, wife of Peter Gelzer, who operated a grocery store at 600 North Third Street in Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Wesp, Lautz Bros. & Co.
Starch industry -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.
Corn.
Farms.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Wesp [P.9651.15]
Accession number
P.9651.15
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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