| Contributor |
Donaldson Brothers (Firm), printer. |
|
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Title |
[The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Co.'s Sun Dial gas stove trade cards] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York : Donaldson Brothers, Five Points |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1880 |
| Date |
[ca. 1880] |
| Physical Description |
2 prints : chromolithographs ; 8.5 x 14 cm. (3.25 x 5.5 in.) |
| Description |
Illustrated trade cards depicting before and after scenarios entitled "Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove" and "After
they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove". In the "before" scene, a disheleved female domestic worker, surrounded by debris,
drops cinders and sets the stove on fire as a concerned and hesitant family enters the room. In the "after" scene, with the
aid of a Sun Dial stove, the pleasant and well-groomed maid has already prepared breakfast and tidied the dining area as the
happy family enters the room for breakfast. The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Company was founded by William Wallace Goodwin and
his father Oliver W. Goodwin.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.791]: "Sure Sor! says Biddy "it's not my fault this breakfast's not
ready; faith I used all the morning paper and a sup of kerosene too and bedad it smokes like a chimney yet. Indade Sor, you've
frightened me so I've split all the cinders."
|
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After they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.867]: Indade Mum, the breakfast will always be ready on
time since you got the "Sun Dial," sure the work's so aisy now, I was thinking Mum I wouldn't object to a small reduction
of my wages.
|
|
Advertising text printed on versos promotes gas burning stoves and includes numbered lists of advantages over coal and "ordinary
gas stoves".
|
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One print [1975.F.791] contains the trademark printed on verso. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Company. |
|
Stove industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Families. |
|
Stoves. |
|
Women domestics. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1870-1880. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880. |
| Provenance |
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Sun Dial [1975.F.791 & 1975.F.867] |
| Accession number |
1975.F.791 |
|
1975.F.867 |
