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"It's easy to dye with Diamond Dyes" [graphic].
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Contributor
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company printer.,
Title
"It's easy to dye with Diamond Dyes" [graphic].
Publisher
Boston : Forbes Co
Publisher
MASS. Boston. 1885
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 8.5 cm. (4.25 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Humorous illustrated trade card depicting a little girl seated on the floor proudly holding up and displaying a kitten and a doll she dipped into a bowl of Diamond Dyes. Her mother watches the scene with panic as the kitten and doll drip red dye everywhere.
Notes
Contains advertising text promoting Diamond Dyes' three new colors (fast stocking black, turkey red for cotton, and brown for cotton) and advertisements for Wells, Richardson & Co. (Burlington, Vt.) and J.R. Ames, druggist, Ogdensburgh, N.Y. printed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Ames, J.R.
Diamond Dyes Company (Burlington, Vt.)
Wells, Richardson & Co.
Chemical industry -- Vermont -- Burlington.
Paint industry -- Vermont -- Burlington.
Dyeing.
Cats.
Dolls.
Girls.
Child behavior.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Humorous pictures -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Diamond [P.9988.1]
Accession number
P.9988.1
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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