Details
Contributor Craig, Finley & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [John P. Twaddell trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 13 cm. (3 x 5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for John P. Twaddell's fine shoe store at 1212 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a spray of flowers and children walking in a single file line with shoes on poles, one of them with a sign labeled "Solar Tip Brigade". One print [1975.F.841] contains the trademark of John Mundell & Co. printed on recto and verso and a vignette printed on verso showing a female cook dumping a large pot of gravy into a container with the description: "the cook is wasting her time, for the gravy runs out almost as fast as it runs in".
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.841] printed by Craig, Finley & Co., 1020 Arch Street, Phila.
One print [1975.F.841] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Solar Tip Shoes as the shoes worn by one thousand boys at Girard College in Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Twaddell, John P.
John Mundell & Co.
Shoe industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shoe stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Cooks.
Flowers.
Shoes.
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 - Twaddell [1975.F.841 & 1975.F.881]
Accession number 1975.F.841
1975.F.881