Details
Contributor Graf Brothers, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Use Eavenson's diamond soap. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Graf Bros
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1882
Date c1882
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 7.5 cm. (5 x 3 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a girl attired in a blue dress and matching bonnet walking with her dog on an autumn day. She holds a stick in her right arm and is poised to whack the branches with it. Eavenson & Sons was founded ca. 1857 in Philadelphia by Jones Eavenson and his eldest son Allen Eavenson.
Notes Copyright 1882 by Graf Bros.
Contains advertising text listing varieties of Eavenson & Sons' high grade pure soaps printed on verso.
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 Eavenson & Sons.
Cosmetics industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Girls.
Dogs.
Autumn.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Eavenson [1975.F.290]
Accession number 1975.F.290