Contributor |
Donaldson Brothers (Firm) |
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Atwood, Charles B. 1849-1895, architect. |
Title |
Said Peter Stuyvesant, "Welcome, friends, you would find our living rougher had we knickerbockers not learned to use the Enterprise
sausage stuffer." [graphic].
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Publisher |
New York: Donaldson Brothers, lith |
Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1893 |
Date |
c1893 |
Physical Description |
2 prints: chromolithograph; 13 x 9 cm. (5 x 3.5 in.) |
Description |
Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Sausage Stuffer
and Lade Press." Contains an anachronistic scene including a caricaturized depiction of Dutch Director General of the colony
New Netherland (later New York) Peter Stuyvesant. Depicts the peg-legged Stuyvesant promoting an Enterprise sausage stuffer
to two of the colony's elite citizens. A servant operates the machine. A strand of encased sausage flows into a large bowl.
Also contains a view of the Art Gallery designed by Charles B. Atwood. A boat floats in the foreground. The exposition held
in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866.
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Notes |
Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Sausage Stuffer and Lard Press. Our Sausage Stuffers are easy working and durable,
are unexcelled for butchers' and farmers' use and will be found useful for many purposes in the household. We furnish them
wither japanned or tinned. Prices: No. 5-2 quart, Japanned, Rack,....$3.00. "10-2 " Tinned, ",...$3.50; " 15-2 ", Japanned,
Screw....$4.00; "20-2 " tinned, "....$4.50; " 25-4 " Japanned, ",...$5.00; " 30-4 " Tinned, "...$6.00; " 35-8 " Japanned,
"... $6.50; " 40-8 " tinned, "....$7.50.
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Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts.,
Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a "4 Qrt" hand-turned sausage stuffer and accompanying blades. |
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Typeface on verso varies between prints. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Gift of Michael Zinman. |
Subject |
Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672 -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings. |
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Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Penn’a. |
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Hardware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Food processing. |
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Sausages. |
Geographic subject |
New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Anecdotes. |
Genre |
Trade cards -- 1890-1900. |
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Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900. |
Associated name |
Atwood, Charles B. (Charles Bowler), 1849-1895, architect. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.59 & 67] |
Accession number |
P.2008.36.59 |
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P.2008.36.67 |