| 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 |
