Details
Contributor Cleveland Stone Company, former owner.
Title Biddle Hardware Co., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1888
Date [ca. 1888]
Physical Description 1 print: relief; 9 x 16 cm. (8.5 x 6.5 in.)
Description Pictorial envelope containing a vignette depicting an anvil marked with the name of the hardware firm.
Notes Title from printed return address.
Date inferred from ink-stamp postmark: Philadelphia Apr 21, [18]88, 6 30 PM.
Contains cancelled oval two-cent stamp printed in green and containing a profile portrait of George Washington.
Printed upper left corner: Please return if not delivered within 10 days.
Addressed in manuscript to: Cleveland Stone Co., Cleveland, Ohio.
Contains on verso: ink-stamp postmark: Cleveland, O., Apr 23, 1888, 4 AM.
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.
Cleveland Stone Company was founded by George H. Worthington in 1886.
Subject Biddle Hardware Co.
Hardware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Anvils.
Genre Pictorial envelopes -- 1880-1890.
Relief prints -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Cleveland Stone Company, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.72]
Accession number P.2011.10.72