Details
Contributor Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Charles W.R. Smith trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1883
Date [ca. 1883]
Physical Description 11 prints : chromolithographs ; 12 x 6.5 cm. (4.75 x 2.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a cat; women's hands holding and displaying flowers; nuns walking with open umbrellas in the rain; a girl sitting on a fence; a woman pouring tea; girls bundled in matching coats, hats and hand warmers; and a bride attired in her wedding gown holding a bouquet of flowers.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on rectos promotes Enlish linen note paper, Easter cards, and Valentines.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes fine stationery created and sold by Smith from his 130 South Eleventh Street shop, including wedding cards and programmes, note paper, envelopes, and stylographic pens.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Smith, Charles W.R.
Stationery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Brides.
Cats.
Clothing & dress.
Flowers.
Girls.
Hands.
Nuns.
Rain.
Tea.
Umbrellas.
Wedding clothing & dress.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Smith [1975.F.744; 1975.F.754; 1975.F.765; 1975.F.771; 1975.F.773; 1975.F.782; 1975.F.803; 1975.F.817-820]
Accession number 1975.F.744
1975.F.754
1975.F.765
1975.F.771
1975.F.773
1975.F.782
1975.F.803
1975.F.817
1975.F.818
1975.F.819
1975.F.820