Details
Contributor Mellins, H., copyright holder.
Title Geo. W. Nock, locksmith, bell hanger and silver plater, 142 N. Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] : All kinds of Brass and Light Iron Work done to order.
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1874
Date c1874
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 8 x 12 cm. (3 x 4.5 in.)
Description Trade card containing a comic view titled "We've Had a D__L Of A Time." Shows a well-dressed woman entering a disheveled room containing a parrot and monkey. The parrot greets the woman next to his overturned cage and in front of a rumpled bed on which a monkey sits. Debris covers the floor near an overturned chair and a broken mirror barely hangs from the wall. Also contains a "Business Directory" of twenty-one "Names and Address of Reliable Business men of Philadelphia, Pa." on verso. Businesses include Nock, as well as Columbia Laundry; J. D. Madden, Plumber & Gas Fitter; and C. F. Zimmerman, Musical Instruments.
Notes Printed on recto: Over.
Copyrighted by H. Mellins in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
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 Nock, George W.
Locksmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vandalism.
Parrots.
Monkeys.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer Mellins, H., copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.41]
Accession number P.2011.10.41