Details
Contributor Ballin & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title Brook's prize medal spool cotton. Hand & machine sewing. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Ballin & Co. lith., 207 Fulton St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 10 cm. (2.75 x 4 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting two groups of men demonstrating the strength of Brook's cotton thread by playing tug of war with it on a dirt path near a body of water. A goat stands on its hind legs on top of a spool of cotton labeled "Brook's six cord 40" in the foreground. Another spool labeled "Brook's patent glace thread 50" sits adjacent to the first.
Notes Text printed on verso lists medals and awards won by the company in various world cities between 1851 and 1880.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Jonas Brook & Brothers.
Thread industry.
Cotton industry.
Tug of war.
Goats.
Cotton.
Thread.
Men.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Brook's [1975.F.47]
Accession number 1975.F.47