Details
Contributor Waugh, Ida, d.1919, artist.
Ketterlinus Printing House, printer.
Title The little bill poster. [graphic] / Ida Waugh.
Publisher Philadelphia: Ketterlinus
Date 1898
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 15 x 9 cm. (6 x 3.5 in.)
Description Trade card showing a girl posting a "bill" advertising "Eskay's Albumenized Food for Infants and Invalids" on a wood fence. A satchel lies beside her on the ground. Eskay's food was a modified milk product.
Notes Publication date based on copyright statement "copyrighted 1896, S, K, & F. Co. Philadelphia."
Name of artist from several lines of advertising text printed on verso, including two testimonials and premium offer reading, "For three 50-cent wrappers, or their equivalent in value of other sizes, we will send free of all expense a copy of the handsome picture on the other side, in nine colors, size 16 x 25 inches, without any advertising upon it whatever. The original painting is one of the latest works of the celebrated artists, Ida Waugh, and is a handsome work of art. Full directions for mounting accompany each picture.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
Subject Smith, Kline & French.
Bill-posting.
Food.
Girls.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Associated name Printer Smith, Kline & French, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.17]
Accession number P.2010.36.17 (recto)
P.2010.36.17 (verso)