Details
Contributor E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
McIlvaine & Co., distributor.
Title [Van Haagen's Toilet Soap, Benj. Brooke & Co., Manufs., Philadelphia trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [Ketterlinus]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; 10 x 7 cm. (4 x 2.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a man holding a bouquet of flowers standing with two women; a man with an envelope approaching a woman standing at a mirror; a couple walking with arms clasped and a poodle by their side; and a soldier peering over the shoulder of a woman who pulls petals off of a flower.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Two prints [1975.F.898 & 901] contain distributor's imprint printed on bottom of rectos in black text: McIlvaine & Co., grocers, S.E. cor. Chestnut & Juniper Sts., Philadelphia.
Two prints [1975.F.899 & 900] contain advertising text printed on bottom of rectos in black text: 1st Regiment Bouquet Toilet Soap for sale at soap stand in the fair.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes the purity, quality and general superiority of the soap produced by Benjamin Brooke & Co. with the expertise of Mr. A. Van Haagen, formerly of McKeone, Van Haagen & Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Benjamin Brooke & Co.
Soap trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cosmetics industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Correspondence.
Couples.
Courtship.
Dogs.
Flowers.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name McIlvaine & Co., distributor.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Van Haagen's [1975.F.898-901]
Accession number 1975.F.898
1975.F.899
1975.F.900
1975.F.901