Details
Creator E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Title E. Ketterlinus & Co., plain and ornamental printer and lithographers, no. 40 North Fourth St., Philad'a. [graphic] : Counting house almanac for 1852
Publisher [Philadelphia: E. Ketterlinus & Co]
Date [ca. 1851]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, embossed, gilted, and tinted with two stones; 22 x 14 cm.(8.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Advertisement calendar, containing an embossed and gilted border of classical imagery, for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Imagery includes scrolls; urns of flowers; cherubs playing instruments, riding fish, and holding up pedestals; and the sea god Poseidon in his chariot pulled by horses and a merman. Also contains advertising text promoting the products of the firm. Includes show cards, color glazed papers, tin foil, bronzes, bills of lading, fancy gilt dry good tickets, and hat and cap tips in addition to fancy embossed and gilt labels "always on hand." Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 20
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 614 K 512a
Subject E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Calendars -- 1850-1860.
Embossed prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Ba 614 K 512a