Details
Contributor Donaldson Brothers (Firm), printer.
Maryland Lith. Co., printer.
Title [Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1893
Date ca. 1893
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 12.5 x 9 cm. (5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting three sad irons in a wooden box; a caricature of Abraham Lincoln holding a document in his left hand as he uses his right to operate an Enterprise faucet to fill up a container with molasses; and an exterior view of the Forestry Building on the grounds of Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois for the 1893 world fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Columbus to the New World. The following text separates the caricature of Lincoln from the view of the Forestry building: "I found, when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet."
Notes One print [P.9577.13] copyrighted 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, lith. N.Y.
Printers and engravers include Maryland Lith. Co. (Baltimore) and Donaldson Brothers (New York).
Includes advertising text for Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" and "measuring faucet" printed on versos. Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" sold by C.Y. Schelly & Bro., Allentown, Pa.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
One print [P.9162] gift of George Allen.
Digitized.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
C.Y. Schelly & Bro.
Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Penn’a.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings.
Hardware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Faucets.
Irons (Pressing).
Molasses.
Genre Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Enterprise [P.9162 and P.9577.13]
Accession number P.9162
P.9577.13