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[Wm. F. Simes & Son trade cards] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A106772
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Wm. F. Simes & Son trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia?]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1882
Date
[ca. 1882]
Physical Description
8 prints : chromolithographs ; 12.5 x 7.5 cm. (5 x 3 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. F. Simes & Son, proprietors of the "little gem corn & bunion remedy", at 1102 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a couple embracing and reeling in a large fish; a woman and three anthropomorphic owls reading and standing on a thin tree branch; a girl reeling in a fish twice the size of her own body; a man with a large, bulbous nose standing next to a stork on a beach, looking toward the ocean where a male fairy flies to retrieve a hat floating in the water; a Native American female cherub kneeling before a small Greek statuette; a male cherub playing a banjo and synchronizing the movements of a tiny ballerina doll to the music with a string attached his leg; a male cherub picking flowers and observing a dragonfly; and a male suitor standing next to the bench where his female companion is seated.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.858] copyrighted 1882 by [illegible?]
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
William F. Simes & Son.
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Patent medicines.
Animals in human situations.
Beaches.
Couples.
Courtship.
Dolls.
Dragonflies.
Fairies.
Fish.
Fishing.
Flowers.
Girls.
Indian women -- North America.
Men.
Owls.
Putti.
Reading.
Storks.
Stringed instruments.
Women.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Simes [1975.F.755-759; 1975.F.789; 1975.F.815; 1975.F.858]
Accession number
1975.F.755
1975.F.756
1975.F.757
1975.F.758
1975.F.759
1975.F.789
1975.F.815
1975.F.858
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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