Details
Title [Theo. Ricksecker's trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 3 prints : chromolithographs ; 7 x 12 cm. (2.75 x 4.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a jester and a frog performing a variety of activities, including the jester playing a banjo and the frog dancing; the frog posing and the jester sketching his portrait; and the frog bound to a leaf stem and the jester aiming a bow and arrow at an apple on top of the frog's head.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes Ricksecker's skin soap, reliable perfumes, Fifth Avenue Cologne, and face powder.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Theo. Ricksecker & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Cosmetics industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Perfumes industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Animals in human situations.
Arrows.
Banjos.
Bows (Weapons)
Dance.
Fools & jesters.
Frogs.
Play (Recreation)
Targets (Sports)
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Ricksecker [1975.F.747-749]
Accession number 1975.F.748
1975.F.748(v)