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Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Choice Bohsemeem, the best and purest spices. Weikel & Smith Spice Co., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; 11 x 7 cm. (4.25 x 2.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting idyllic scenes surrounded by floral borders, including women playing stringed instruments; a couple holding a flower garland; a boy asleep and dreaming of an angel hovering over him with a cornucopia of flowers; two women, one holding a lyre, the other a triangle, sitting on a large shell in a lily pond. Business started in Philadelphia as Hummel, Bohler & Co. in 1850 and organized as a stock company under the name Weikel & Smith Spice Co. in 1867.
Notes Advertising text printed on versos promotes Weikel & Smith Spice Co.'s Bohsemeem trade mark.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Weikel & Smith Spice Co.
Spice trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Angels.
Couples.
Flowers.
Musical instruments.
Sleeping.
Women.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Weikel [1975.F.973-976]
Accession number 1975.F.973
1975.F.974
1975.F.975
1975.F.976