Details
Contributor Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm), publisher.
Title [Advertising specimens] [graphic].
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1860-1895
Date [ca. 1860-1895]
Physical Description 9 prints: 6 chromolithographs and 3 lithographs; 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 5.75 in.), 18 x 8 cm. (7 x 3 in.), or smaller.
Description Series of advertising specimens, including trade cards, book marks, and a proof of an invitation. Prints depict a girl character in allegorical scenes representing the seasons; views of South Ferry Hotel (Kaighn Point, N.J) and a standard scale at use at a farm; medals; coats of arms; and pharmaceutical apparatus. Businesses represented include Peter Bazzanti & Son, manufactory of Florentine Mosaics; Fairbanks' Standard Scale; Hawkins Brothers, army, navy, & police contractors and post office & railway contractors; and W.B. Horner, druggist & apothecary.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Various printers, including S. C. Boreum and Major & Knapp.
Varous publishers, including Philadelphia Inquirer.
Print P.9399.449 inscribed on verso: Od [sic] Fellow Hall, Sixth St. Below Race. Race.
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 Horner, W.B.
Peter Bazzanti & Son.
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.
Hawkins Brothers.
South Ferry Hotel (Camden, N.J.)
Chemical apparatus.
Coats of arms
Contractors.
Hotels
Farms.
Medals.
Pharmacists.
Scales.
Seasons.
Tile industry.
Weighing instruments industry.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1900.
Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Bookmarks -- 1890-1990.
Invitations -- 1850-1960.
Trade cards -- 1860-1880.
Printer Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm), publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Advertising Specimens [P.9349.364, 366-367, 384, 402, 404-405, 414, 449]
Accession number P.9349.364
P.9349.366
P.9349.367
P.9349.384
P.9349.402
P.9349.404
P.9349.405
P.9349.414
P.9349.449