Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [S. Shoneman trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880-1885
Date [ca. 1880-1885]
Physical Description 8 prints : chromolithographs ; 15 x 10 cm. (6 x 4 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for Samuel Shoneman's "button house" and ladies' trimmings store at 101 South Eleventh Street, later 1018 Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers; flowers in a vase; children carrying a potted flowering plant; a girl picking and smelling flowers; putti; a boy straddling a music stand containing sheet music and playing the violin or fiddle; a male figure attired in a hat and ruffled collar standing near a scythe and hourglass holding a hoop through which a frog leaps; and a view showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods are sat upon and displayed by the English delegation. Also shows residences standing in the background.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Three prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting various styles of buttons sold by Shoneman's "button house", along with various ladies trimmings, jewelry and fancy goods.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Portraits.
Shoneman, Samuel.
Buttonhole industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Flowers.
Frogs.
Girls.
Hourglasses.
Music stands.
Putti.
Scythes.
Stringed instruments.
Indians of North America.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Trimmings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Shoneman [1975.F.691; 1975.F.698; 1975.F.798; 1975.F.850; 1975.F.852; 1975.F.862 & 863; P.9728.10]
Accession number 1975.F.691
1975.F.698
1975.F.798
1975.F.850
1975.F.852
1975.F.862
1975.F.863
P.9728.10