Details
Contributor Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [G.A. Schwarz trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; 13.5 x 9 cm. (5.25 x 3.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for Gustavus A. Schwarz's toy store at 1006 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict children playing with toys, including lettered blocks, building blocks, a drum, a rocking horse, a swing and a velocipede; a girl sleeping and dreaming about Santa Claus delivering toys for Christmas, including candy, a doll, a book, and a rabbit playing a drum; and children watching their mother decorate the family's Christmas tree. G.A. Schwarz opened his toy bazaar on 1006 Chestnut Street in 1859. Three of his brothers (Henry, F.A.O. and Richard Schwarz) operated toy stores in Baltimore, New York, and Boston.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann (New York).
Two prints [1975.F.857 & 859] contain advertising text printed on versos promoting G.A. Schwarz's twenty-first annual Christmas exhibition (1880) and Christmas goods, including German, French and English toys and dolls, ornaments, Vienna leather and olive wood articles.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Schwarz, Gustavus A.
Toy stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Christmas.
Christmas presents.
Christmas trees.
Mothers.
Play (Recreation)
Santa Claus.
Sleeping.
Toys.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Schwarz [1975.F.808; 1975.F.857; 1975.F.859 & 860]
Accession number 1975.F.808
1975.F.857
1975.F.859
1975.F.860