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[St. George Pharmacy trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
J.H. Bufford’s Sons Lith., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[St. George Pharmacy trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
9 prints : 8 chromolithographs and 1 lithograph tinted with two stones ; 6.5 x 12.5 cm. (2.5 x 5 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for J.F. Hayes' St. George Pharmacy at the southwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. Products advertised include soda water, Saint George Cologne, and soda mint tablets. Illustrations depict monkeys, flowers, flowers in vases, paddle fans, and a clown. Also shows a group of people speeding down a snowy slope on a large wooden sled. Turkeys dodge the oncoming sled in the foreground and a dog chases it in the background.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.350] copyrighted 1877 by J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston).
Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston).
Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Hayes, J. Frank.
St. George Pharmacy (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Soda fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Antacids.
Clowns.
Fans (Accessories)
Flowers.
Monkeys.
Sleds & sleighs.
Snow.
Turkeys.
Vases.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Saint George [1975.F.350 & 351; 1975.F.359; 1975.F.414; 1975.F.416-419; 1975.F.441]
Accession number
1975.F.350
1975.F.351
1975.F.359
1975.F.414
1975.F.416
1975.F.417
1975.F.418
1975.F.419
1975.F.441
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