Details
Contributor Bellew, Frank, 1828-1888, artist.
Read, Donald, associated name.
Title Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, N.Y, solicitors of American and foreign patents and publishers of the "Scientific American." [graphic].
Alternate Title Scientific American.
Publisher New York
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1875
Date [1874]
Physical Description 1 item: color wood engraving; 13 x 9 cm.(5 x 3.25 in.)
Description Trade card-size advertising calendar containing illustration drawn by Frank Bellew and captioned "Ready-Acting Dog-Tail and Gun-Barrel Attachment." Shows a hunter, with a hunting basket containing a frog on his back, and his dog wearing the gun attachment "Invented by Donald Read" at a pond. The hunter holds a bullfrog in one hand and the trigger attachment in the other as the dog is aimed at a frog in the water. A farmhouse is visible in the background.
Notes Contains several lines of advertising text promoting "Scientific American" "the oldest, largest, cheapest, and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to Engineering, Mechanics, Chemistry, New Inventions, Science and Industrial Progress, published in the United States" on recto. Text describes the depth of the engravings, subscription prices, and benefits of a subscription.
Contains calendar for year 1875 and several lines of advertising text promoting "Patents, Munn & Co. Established 1846" on verso. Text solicits for inventor's patents, notes "special notices" in "Scientific American," and advises the attainment of their pamphlet detailing patent laws.
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 Munn & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Publishing industry. -- New York (State) -- New York.
Patent practice.
Hunting.
Dogs.
Rifles.
Genre Calendars -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Wood engravings -- Color -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.168]
Accession number P.2011.10.168