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Whitmore's stationery and leathergoods are standard for style and quality. [graphic].
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
Whitmore's stationery and leathergoods are standard for style and quality. [graphic].
Publisher
[New York?]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 10 x 7 cm. (4 x 2.75 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a girl standing and holding a large piece of paper as a boy kneels on the ground in front of her and writes on the paper with a quill pen. Includes an inkstand and quill pen on the table behind them.
Notes
Advertising text printed on verso: Whitmore's fine stationery and leather goods of superior quality for sale by all first class stationers & booksellers. Paper & envelopes for fashionable correspondence, visiting cards, wedding and party invitations, ball programmes, menu and dinner cards in the correct fashionable sizes, shapes and tints and of finest quality. Leather fancy goods in great variety of novel designs for wedding, birthday and holliday gifts. James D. Whitmore & Co., New York.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
James D. Whitmore & Co.
Stationery trade -- New York (State) -- New York.
Children.
Inkstands.
Writing.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Whitmore [1975.F.944]
Accession number
1975.F.944
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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