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Title Carey, Bro. & Grevemeyer, 423 Market St., Philadelphia, booksellers, stationers and blank book manufacturers, paper curtains, oil shades and shading, floor and table oil cloth. Also, jobbers and manufacturers of wall paper. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1883
Date [1883]
Physical Description 1 print: line photoengraving and relief; 29 x 18 cm. (11.25 x 7 in.)
Description Wall calendar with tear sheets. Mount contains a vignette showing the Carey Bro. & Grevemeyer wallpaper "Factory, 2228 to 2234 North 10th Street." View also shows street traffic, including horse-drawn carts and a locomotive. R. Davis and Theodore Carey and W.H. Grevemeyer partnered circa 1883 with a retail store on Market Street and a wall paper manufactory at North Tenth Street. The firm succeeded Hollowbrush & Carey, booksellers, stationers, and blank book manufacturers.
Notes Advertising text printed in borders: Orders by Mail promptly attended to. Blank books of all kinds Made to Order. Estimates furnished for Printing of all kinds.
Bottom edge of each calendar page contains printed name of different types of products offered by the firm. Includes: Pocket Books and Satchels; Pocket Cutlery; Looking Glasses; Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags & Flour Sacks; Brushes of All Kinds; Paper and Oil Curtains; Table and Floor Oil Cloth; Store Shades made & Lettered to order; Photograph Frames & Albums; Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books; Holiday Goods; and Almanacs and Diaries.
Text on mount printed in blue and red.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Carey, Bro. & Grevemeyer.
Booksellers and bookselling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stationery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 2228-2234.
Genre Calendars -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Line photoengravings -- 1880-1890.
Relief prints -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.163]
Accession number P.2011.10.163