Details
Contributor Ketterlinus Printing House, printer.
Title McLaughlin's XXXX Coffee [paper doll] [graphic] : Best quality coffee on the market.
Publisher Philadelphia; New York; Chicago: Ketterlinus
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1895
Date [ca. 1895]
Physical Description 2 prints: chromolithographs; sheet 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.), folded to 10 x 7 cm. (4 x 2.5 in.)
Description Includes cut-out paper doll figure "8" depicting a tiger and separate die cut costume, probably from the Chicago coffee company's "Mr. and Mrs. Whimsical Wild Animal" series. Costume design is a pink, mutton sleeve dress, with gold sash, and gloved hands holding a closed fan. McLaughlin Coffee, established in 1852, introduced lines of promotional paper dolls following the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and their discontinuation of trade cards.
Notes Instructions printed on verso of P.2011.10.37: To make figure stand, bend right foot forwar[d] and tail and left foot backward, thus forming as stand.
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 McLaughlin Coffee Company.
Coffee industry -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Animals in human situations.
Tigers.
Costumes.
Genre Paper dolls -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.37 & 37a]
Accession number P.2011.10.37 & 37a