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[Samuel F. Simes trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Samuel F. Simes trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
4 prints : chromolithographs ; 6.5 x 13.5 cm. (2.5 x 5.25 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Noon," "Morning," "Evening," and "Night" depicting a woman lounging on a hammock; a woman waking a child and pointing to the rising sun; a woman walking with a child asleep in her arms and an older child by her side; and a woman tucking in two children asleep in bed. These rectangular vignettes are surrounded by additional imagery, including plants, flowers, butterflies, birds and owls.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes Simes' apothecary at the northwest corner of Twentieth and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia and some of his products, including Cryoline (a silver polish), egg soda, and ginger ale.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Simes, Samuel F.
Pharmacists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Soda fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bats.
Bedtime.
Birds.
Children.
Flowers.
Hammocks (Furniture)
Morning.
Night.
Owls.
Sleeping.
Sunrises & sunsets.
Time.
Women.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Simes [1975.F.835; 1975.F.842-844]
Accession number
1975.F.835
1975.F.842
1975.F.843
1975.F.844
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