Details
Contributor Geo. H. Walker & Co., printer.
Title Pettijohn's breakfast food by the American Cereal Co., address Chicago, U.S.A. [graphic] : Everybody can eat it. All the wheat but the overcoat. A delicious and perfect food. Wheat is the natural food of man. "Bear" in mind our trademark. Hold this card up to the light.
Publisher Boston : Geo. H. Walker & Co
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1895
Date [ca. 1895]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph printed on thin paper ; 8.5 x 12 cm. (3.25 x 4.75 in.)
Description Thin illustrated trade card depicting a container of Pettijohn's breakfast food. An inverted color container and brown bear printed on verso is visible on recto when held up to the light. The American Cereal Company formed from the merger of several oatmeal millers in 1891.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Digitized.
Subject The American Cereal Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Food industry -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Bears.
Cereal products.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Ephemera -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Pettijohn's [P.9993.3]
Accession number P.9993.3