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[Strawbridge & Clothier trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Strawbridge & Clothier trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
4 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 12.5 cm. (3 x 5 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for Strawbridge & Clothier's dry goods store at Eighth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict men riding in a horse-drawn carriage past a sign reading "The largest retail stock of dry goods. Strawbridge & Clothier, Eighth & Market Sts., Philada."; an old man seated with his cane watching a woman harvest wheat; a chef wearing an apron and chef's hat pulling on the neck of a duck; and a porter rushing off of a train to help a man carrying Strawbridge & Clothier packages. In 1861, Justus Strawbridge opened a dry goods store at the northwest corner of Market and Eighth streets. In 1868 another young Quaker, Isaac Clothier joined him and together they prospered selling good quality domestic and imported dry goods.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.816] copyrighted 1878 by Strawbridge & Clothier.
One print [1975.F.806] contains advertising text printed on verso: Philadelphia, Dec. 1880. With the compliments of the season we present this little Calendar for the coming year. Respectfully, Strawbridge & Clothier. Eighth and Market Sts.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
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Subject
Strawbridge & Clothier.
Department stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bags.
Carriages & coaches.
Cooks.
Ducks.
Harvesting.
Railroad porters.
Wheat.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Strawbridge [1975.F.763; 1975.F.806; 1975.F.816; 1975.F.851]
Accession number
1975.F.763
1975.F.806
1975.F.816
1975.F.851
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