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[Unidentified trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
Continental Bank Note Co., printer.
J.H. Bufford & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Unidentified trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
9 prints : 4 engravings, 2 chromolithographs, 2 lithographs, and lithograph tinted with one stone ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting scenes of Japanese life showing men and women attired in traditional garb; a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greeting with a vase of flowers and bamboo; a profile of a woman's face encircled by a flower border and a bird; a female figure attired in robes and a Roman helmet in the clouds holding a mirror showing a child's reflection; sailing vessels on the water; a horseshoe; and flowers.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and engravers include Bufford (Boston) and Continental Bank Note Co. (New York).
Advertising text printed on versos promotes the gents' shoe department of an unidentified store; fancy furs and cloaks; porcelaines, bronzes, clocks and leather goods; and "all of the ordinary grades at the lowest prices".
Two prints contain calendars for 1880, one for 1879 and one print with sixth months of a calendar for an unidentified year printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Bronze industry -- United States.
Clothing stores -- United States.
Fancy goods stores -- United States.
Pottery industry -- United States.
Shoe stores -- United States.
Stationery trade -- United States.
Bamboo.
Birds.
Flowers.
Horseshoes.
Japanese -- Manners and customs.
Japanese -- Social life.
Women.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Calendars -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Unidentified [1975.F.198; 1975.F.215; 1975.F.218; 1975.F.306; 1975.F.483; 1975.F.919; 1975.F.1033; 1975.F.1040; P.9111.12]
Accession number
1975.F.198
1975.F.215
1975.F.218
1975.F.306
1975.F.483
1975.F.919
1975.F.1033
1975.F.1040
P.9111.12
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