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Dreer’s garden calendar 1886 [catalog cover] [graphic].
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Contributor
Butler, William H., printer.
Title
Dreer’s garden calendar 1886 [catalog cover] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: W.H. Butler, agt. lith
Date
[ca. 1886]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 26 x 28 cm. (10 x 12 in.)
Description
Front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue for the Henry A. Dreer firm. Front cover shows a property containing a mansion house (with an attached greenhouse), tree orchard, garden patch, and two outbuildings, including one with a windmill. In the foreground, a man on horseback passes on a road through the estate. Back cover shows a display of farm produce including, celery, pumpkin, corn, potatoes, watermelon, beets, lettuce, carrots, and asparagus in the foreground of a farming scene. Decorative trims line the top and bottom edges. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00055
Price list of available gardening book titles, index to calendar, "useful tables" for planting, and prices for flower pots and garden sticks printed on verso.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 59
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Butler previously was a partner of the Packard & Butler, later Packard Butler, & Partridge firm which ceased operation in early 1886 following a fire. Butler operated a studio solely until 1893.
Subject
Henry A. Dreer (Firm) 1818-1873.
Seed trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Estates.
Agricultural facilities.
Farming.
Farm produce.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Covers (Illustrations) -- 1890-1900.
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
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