Details
Contributor Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
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
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