Details
Contributor E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title The "Reading" route for Philadelphia and New York, is the quickest and best. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Ketterlinus
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.25 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting two men dueling with swords and shields. In the background, a lady stands with her back to the fight and a dog runs toward the viewer in the foreground. Includes a thermometer adjacent to the title. The Bound Brooke Route, operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, operated between Ninth and Green Streets in Philadelphia and New York City. Route opened about 1876 and capitalized on the Centennial celebration in Philadelphia.
Notes Attributed to E. Ketterlinus & Co. based on similar trade cards in the collection, see trade card - Bound [1975.F.45; 1975.F.86; 1975.F.90].
Time tables for trains bound to Philadelphia and New York, including the "Bound Brook Route", printed on verso. Signed J.E. Wootten, gen'l manager and C.G. Hancock, G.P. & T. agt.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Daggers & swords.
Dogs.
Fighting.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Reading [1975.F.729]
Accession number 1975.F.729