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"I found when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet." [graphic].
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Contributor
Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
Atwood, Charles B. 1849-1894, architect.
Title
"I found when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet." [graphic].
Publisher
New York: Donaldson Brothers, lith
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1893
Date
c1893
Physical Description
2 print: 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 Improved Patent Suction and Force Measuring Faucet." Contains a scene including a caricaturized depiction of Abraham Lincoln in a storeroom with large casks of molasses. Depicts Lincoln holding a sheet of paper in one hand and operating the Enterprise faucet on one of the casks to fill a large jug. Also contains a view of the Forestry building designed by Charles B. Atwood. 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.
Notes
Contains several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes the correctness of the faucet to accurately draw one gallon in any season; it's efficiency and cleanliness; it's "warranted to measure according to United States Standard" advertised as "Eight (8) pounds, five and one-third (5 1/8) ounces of water"; and price of $3.00.
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.
Typeface on verso varies between prints.
Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a hand applying pressure to the handle of a faucet attached to a "Molasses" cask.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Michael Zinman.
See also trade cards - Enterprise.
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings.
Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Penn’a.
Hardware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Faucets.
Molasses.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Associated name
Atwood, Charles B. (Charles Bowler), 1849-1894, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.63 & 69]
Accession number
P.2008.36.63
P.2008.36.69
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