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[William B. Dixey trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
E. Ketterlinus & Co., printer.
Title
[William B. Dixey trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
21 prints : chromolithographs ; 15 x 10 cm. (6 x 4 in.) or smaller.
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards, including the titles, "Caught!" "Peacemaker," "Eggspectation," "The glorious fourth," "Sleighing," and "A fowl blow," for William B. Dixey's plumbing, gas and steam fitting business at 3826 Market Street in West Philadelphia. Illustrations include Christmas and Independence Day imagery and depict children performing a variety of activities, including picking apples, playing and pulling a Christmas tree in the snow, smelling flowers, acting, and diving. Also includes a man being blown up by a gas explosion, a group of men thrown onto the ice from their horse-drawn sleigh, frogs, ducks, chicks, eggs, flowers, balloons, dogs and cats.
Notes
Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Eleven prints contain the following advertisement: Agents for Hellyer's Water Closets.
Four prints die cut and shaped into decorative fans.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Dixey, William B.
Plumbing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas-fitting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steam-fitting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Apple trees.
Cats.
Children.
Christmas trees.
Diving.
Dogs.
Ducks.
Eggs.
Flowers.
Frogs.
Ice.
Lakes & ponds.
Play (Recreation).
Winter.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Dixey [1975.F.93; 1975.F.222a; 1975.F.224; 1975.F.228; 1975.F.232; 1975.F.233 & 234; 1975.F.236-239; 1975.F.241-243; 1975.F.263 & 264; 1975.F.278-281; 1975.F.285; 1975.F.287]
Accession number
[various]
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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