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Geo. W. Taylor, n.w. cor. of Fifth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, manufacturer and vendor of free labor dry goods. Wholesale and retail free labor warehouse. Free labor groceries for sale. [graphic].
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Contributor
E.C. Knight & Co., associated name.
Title
Geo. W. Taylor, n.w. cor. of Fifth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, manufacturer and vendor of free labor dry goods. Wholesale and retail free labor warehouse. Free labor groceries for sale. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1864
Date
[ca. 1864]
Physical Description
1 print : relief ; sheet 5 x 9 cm (2 x 3.75 in.)
Description
Business card with printed type for the member of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends. Taylor, a Quaker, operated a textile mill that used only non-enslaved cotton as part of the Free Labor Movement. The movement active from the 1790s to the end of the Civil War advocated the boycott of goods produced by enslaved labor.
Notes
Title from item.
Date from manuscript note on verso: E.C. Knight & Co. 2 Bags Java Coffee for Geo. W. Taylor 11/21 '64.
Originally part of the Library Company of Philadelphia Miscellaneous Ephemera Collection.
Accessioned 2012.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Taylor, George W., 1803-1891.
Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Business people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Business cards -- 1860-1870.
Relief prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - T [P.2012.9.7]
Accession number
P.2012.9.7
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African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
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