Details
Contributor Craig, Finley & Co., printer.
Graf Brothers, printer.
Sunshine Publishing Company, printer.
Wemple & Kronheim, printer.
Title [Partridge & Richardson trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 30 prints : chromolithographs ; 8.5 x 13 cm. (3.5 x 5 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; couples promenading; bust portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit", the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz.
Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia).
Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Partridge & Richardson (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Accidents.
Baskets.
Beaches.
Blindfolds.
Cats.
Children.
Clothing & dress.
Couples.
Courtship.
Dogs.
Dolls.
Doves.
Fishing.
Flowers.
Foxes.
Frogs.
Ice.
Military personnel.
Moon.
Mothers.
Play (Recreation)
Putti.
Rabbits.
Rain.
Rope skipping.
Singing.
Umbrellas.
Walking.
Winter.
Women.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer: Moritz, Charles, copyright holder.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Partridge [various]
Accession number various
1975.F.662