Details
Creator McClement Bros., printer.
Title Barren Hill Hotel, no. 1, (opposite the Germantown Road.) James Mewhinney, proprietor. Choice wines, liquors, and cigars. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: McClement Bros
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 print: color cameo (stamp); 7 x 10 cm.(2.5 x 4 in.)
Description Trade card for the inn, later known as General Lafayette Inn, containing an embossed image of a man driving a horse-drawn buggy. Also contains a decorative border. Mewhinney operated the inn, first called Barren Hill Hotel in 1869, from 1874 to 1895.
Notes Embossed.
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.
LCP also holds duplicate in the Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia ephemera [Freedman Collection - Trade Cards, P.2013.87.30].
Subject Barren Hill Hotel.
Carriages & coaches
Hotels
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Cameos (stamps) -- Color -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.7a]
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Freedman Collection - Trade cards [P.2013.87.30]
Accession number P.2011.10.7a
P.2013.87.30