Details
Contributor J.D. Johnson Co., former owner.
Title Standard Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher [Pittsburgh]
Publisher PA. Pittsburgh. 1895
Date [ca. 1895]
Physical Description 1 print: line photoengraving; 16 x 9 cm. (6.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Pictorial envelope containing a vignette showing a claw foot tub on a tile floor. The firm etablished in 1875 by James Arrott and Francis Torrance, and John fleming consolidated into Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company in 1899.
Notes Date inferred from ink-stamp postmark: Allegheny June 19, [18]95, 6 30 PM.
Addressed to J.D. Johnson Co., Phila, Pa.
Contains an oval two-cent stamp printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington.
Ink-stamp postmark on verso: Recevied Philadelphia June 30, 1895 6 30 A[M].
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 Standard Manufacturing Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Plumbing fixtures industry -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Bathtubs & showers.
Genre Pictorial envelopes -- 1890-1900.
Line photoengravings -- 1890-1900.
Provenance J.D. Johnson Co., former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.90]
Accession number P.2011.10.90