Details
Contributor Donaldson Brothers (Firm), printer.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company printer.,
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Clark's mile end spool cotton trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 7 prints : chromolithographs ; 6 x 10 cm. (2.5 x 4 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for John Clark Jr. & Co.'s mile end spool cotton products numbered 24, 30, and 60. Illustrations depict circus performers or acrobats; an artist tethered and hanging from a large spool of cotton as he paints "Clarks mile end" on the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean; a boy attired in robes navigating a chariot pulled by two white horses; a backyard view of a dog stealing the bone of a much larger dog that is restrained by a thread from a large spool of cotton; and flowers.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Three prints [1975.F.137, 1975.F.139, 1975.F.143] contain advertising text printed on versos.
Three prints printed by Forbes Co. (Boston) and two prints printed by Donaldson Brothers (New York).
Four prints [1975.F.140, 1975.F.144, 1975.F.166, 1975.F.170] contain six-month calendars on versos, with the imprint for Thomas Russell & Co., sole agents, New York.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject John Clark Jr. & Co.
Thomas Russell & Co.
Thread industry -- New Jersey -- East Newark.
Cotton industry -- New Jersey -- East Newark.
Acrobats.
Artists.
Backyards.
Chariots.
Circus performers.
Coastlines.
Dogs.
Flowers.
Painting.
Thread.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Calendars -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Clark's mile end [1975.F.137; 1975.F.139-140; 1975.F.143-144; 1975.F.166; 1975.F.170]
Accession number 1975.F.137
1975.F.139
1975.F.140
1975.F.143
1975.F.144
1975.F.166
1975.F.170