Details
Contributor Whitehead & Hoag, printer.
Title Take a ride on the 25 mile per hour day steamers Penn & Lord Baltimore or Ericsson Line between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Leaving each end daily 7-30 every morning, commencing May 9th night boat 5 p.m. daily except Sunday [graphic].
Publisher Newark, N.J.: The Whitehead & Hogg Co
Publisher N.J. Newark. 1904
Date [ca. 1904]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph on celluloid; 4 x 9 cm. (1.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Die-cut celluloid bookmark advertising the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company. Bookmark shaped and printed to represent a carp. The steamboat company, established in 1844 by John S. Shriver, originally hauled freight until the increased demand for passenger service circa 1876. The firm operated until circa 1959.
Notes Title from advertising text on verso.
Date inferred from advertisement in "The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition" (1904).
On verso: Book Mark.
Motto printed on verso: "It Takes a Live Fish to Go Up Stream. Any Dead One Can Float Down.
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.
Whitehead & Hoag, established in 1892, was one of the largest advertising firms at the turn of the century, as well as patented celluloid.
Subject Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company.
Fishes.
Celluloid.
Genre Bookmarks -- 1900-1910.
Advertisements -- 1900-1910.
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.173]
Accession number P.2011.10.173