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Vacuum Harness Oil, renders everything soft and pliable. For sale here. [graphic].
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Contributor
Gies & Co., printer.
Title
Vacuum Harness Oil, renders everything soft and pliable. For sale here. [graphic].
Publisher
Buffalo : Gies & Co
Publisher
N.Y. Buffalo. 1895
Date
[ca. 1895]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 23 cm. (5 x 9 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card for the Vacuum Oil Company in Rochester, New York. Divided into three titled panels, the first and third panels, entitled "Don't worry, swate biddy: the harness won't spile, for I've just rubbed it well wid favorite ile," show a man and woman sitting in a carriage protected from rain by a large umbrella. The second panel, "Hans, your muddar says she vants some hair oil; give her dat already, unt maybe it makes her more soft unt bliable, ain't it?" depicts a man handing a large container of Vacuum Harness Oil to his son.
Notes
Advertising text printed on verso of three panels promotes Vacuum Harness Oil as a leather dressing that softens and preserves leather and a "sure cure for all diseased hoofs".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Digitized.
Subject
Vacuum Oil Company (Rochester, N.Y.)
Rendering industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Couples.
Families.
Oils & fats.
Rain.
Umbrellas.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *trade card - Vacuum [P.9993.7]
Accession number
P.9993.7
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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