Details
Title [Hassler's trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [1885]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; 7 x 11.5 cm. (2.75 x 4.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two jesters and three pigs running in opposite directions down a street. The jester in the foreground carries a pig under his arm and the jester in the background carries a cane. Also shows a bust portrait of boy or girl and flowers.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text promoting services and products offered by Hassler's umbrella and cane factory, including umbrella covering, lining, and repairing, printed on versos.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Hassler, Asher.
Umbrella industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Staffs (Sticks)
Umbrellas.
Flowers.
Fools & jesters.
Pigs.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Hassler's [1975.F.413; 1975.F.420; 1975.F.426; 1975.F.440]
Accession number 1975.F.440
1975.F.440(v)