Details
Contributor Graf Brothers, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title The esthetic drive. 122 North Eighth Street, near Arch, common sense shoemaker, Sylvan Dalsimer, manager. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Graf Bros
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1882
Date c1882
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 12 cm. (3 x 4.75 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a couple riding in a cart drawn by a goat. Includes a dog running along side the goat, a peacock blocking the goat's path in the foreground, and a carousel in the distant background.
Notes Copyright 1882, Graf Bros.
Advertising text printed on verso: For your common sense shoes go to the common sense shoemaker. 122 North Eighth St., near Arch. For your children's shoes, go to the common sense shoemaker.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Biographical / historical note Graf Brothers, the lithograph firm operated by German brothers Julius F. (b. 1846) and Charles L. Graf (1849-1900) in Philadelphia 1873-1970s, produced advertisements, trade cards, labels and maps.
Subject Dalsimer, Sylvan.
Shoe stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Couples.
Carts & wagons.
Dogs.
Goats.
Merry-go-rounds.
Peacocks.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Common [1975.F.231]
Accession number 1975.F.231