Details
Contributor Boreum, Simeon, printer.
Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., printer.
Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printer.
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company, printer.
Wm F. Murphy's Sons, printer.
Title [Specimens album loose prints collection] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1860-1898
Date [ca. 1860-ca. 1898]
Physical Description ca. 145 prints: chromolithographs, lithographs, engravings; 32 x 49 cm. (12 x 19 in.) or smaller.
Description Collection of loose prints from a specimen album probably compiled by a printer once associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm Stein and Jones. Contains chromolithographic art supplements and advertising specimens; proof sheets; checks, bank notes billheads, and receipts; trade cards and labels; vignette specimens; proof sheets; and illustrations. Businesses and trades represented include banks, manufacturers, and the textile industry. Collection also includes a proof of a trade catalog for gas pipe fittings; job work, including an 1877 broadside for an "Assessor's Registry of Voters" of a Philadelphia ward; an advertising print for the Walnut Street House (Cincinnati, Oh.); and a sheet music cover containing a landscape view.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Various printers, including Simeon Boerum; Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.; Geo. S. Harris & Sons; J. Ottmann; and Wm. F. Murphy Sons.
Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Walnut Street House (Hotel : Cincinnati, Oh.)
Banking.
Business people.
Textile industry.
Pipe fittings.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1900.
Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Lithographs -- 1860-1880.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Bank notes -- 1860-1880.
Broadsides -- 1870-1880.
Checks -- 1860-1870.
Illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Labels -- 1860-1890.
Proofs -- 1860-1890.
Specimens -- 1860-1890.
Trade cards -- 1860-1890.
Trade catalogs -- 1860-1870.
Vignettes -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *albums (flat) [P.9349.275-472]
Accession number P.9349.275-472