| Contributor |
Chas. Sheilds' Sons, printer. |
|
Wemple & Kronheim, printer. |
|
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
|
Denholm & McKay Co. (Worcester, Mass.), distributor. |
| Title |
[Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton trade cards] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[New York] |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1883 |
| Date |
[ca. 1883] |
| Physical Description |
6 prints : chromolithographs ; 12 x 7 cm. (4.5 x 3 in.) or smaller. |
| Description |
Series of illustrated trade cards for Clark Thread Company's O.N.T. spool cotton. Illustrations depict children in various
settings, including flying a kite with a thread from Clark's O.N.T. spool and a little girl fishing. Also shows a family walking
with their dog on the sidewalk in front of a large advertisement for Clark's; a mother sewing buttons onto her daughter's
coat; and a mother using a Clark's spool thread to keep her walking toddler from falling.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Printers and engravers include Wemple & Kronheim (N.Y.) and Chas. Shields Sons' (N.Y.). |
|
Two prints [1975.F.213 and 1975.F.879] contain advertising text printed on rectos and versos for Joseph H. Traeger's foreign
and domestic dry goods store in Bethlehem, Pa.
|
|
Two prints [1975.F.186 and 1975.F.190] contain six-month calendars on versos. |
|
One print [P.9988.2], die cut and shaped into a cylinder, contains advertising text for Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton on verso
along with a distributor's stamp: Holm & McKay, 50, Worcester, Mass.
|
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Digitized. |
| Subject |
Traeger, Joseph H. |
|
Clark’s O.N.T. (Firm). |
|
Thread industry -- New Jersey -- East Newark. |
|
Cotton industry -- New Jersey -- East Newark. |
|
Children. |
|
Mothers. |
|
Dogs. |
|
Fishing. |
|
Kites (Toys). |
|
Thread. |
| Genre |
Trade cards -- 1880-1890. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890. |
|
Calendars -- 1880-1890. |
| Printer |
Denholm & McKay Co. (Worcester, Mass.), distributor. |
| Provenance |
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Clark's O.N.T. [1975.F.147; 1975.F.186; 1975.F.190; 1975.F.213; 1975.F.879; P.9988.2] |
| Accession number |
1975.F.147 |
|
1975.F.186 |
|
1975.F.190 |
|
1975.F.213 |
|
1975.F.879 |
|
P.9988.2 |
