Details
Contributor Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer.
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Cooper & Conard trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880-1885
Date ca. 1885
Physical Description 6 prints : 5 chromolithographs and 1 photomechanical print ; 16.5 x 11 cm. (6.5 x 4.25 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children performing a variety of activities, including posing for portraits in fancy clothing and decorative fans with pets; sifting flour while dressed in oversized chef's clothing with a celluloid collar as a chef's hat; and jumping rope and playing leapfrog. Also depicts a landscape view of Valley Green Bridge (built 1832, enlarged 1915) spanning Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park and two women, one in full dress and glaring at the other scantily-clad woman, walking on the sidewalk on a windy day.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Printers and photographers include Frederick Gutekunst and Thomas Sinclair.
Two prints [1975.F.209 and 1975.F.214] contain the imprint, "Sinclair's 1st prize series," and are copyrighted 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes.
One print [P.9798.5] includes advertising text and a list of available dry goods printed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Cooper & Conard.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stone bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Pets.
Play (Recreation).
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Landscape photographs -- 1880-1890.
Photomechanical prints -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Cooper [1975.F.154 & 155; 1975.F.203; 1975.F.209; 1975.F.214; P.9798.5]
Accession number 1975.F.154
1975.F.155
1975.F.203
1975.F.209
1975.F.214
P.9798.5