Details
Creator E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Title E. Ketterlinus & Co., letter-press and lithographic printers, no. 40 North Fourth St., first door above the Merchant's Hotel, Philadelphia. [graphic] : Counting house almanac for 1854.
Publisher [Philadelphia: E. Ketterlinus & Co]
Date [ca. 1853]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph printed on green cardstock, embossed, gilted, and tinted with three stones; 22 x 14 cm.(8.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Advertisement calendar, containing an embossed and gilted border of patriotic and religious imagery, for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Imagery includes gothic architectural details; cherubs; the American eagle, shield, and flags; and an angel and a knight elevated on pedestals. Also contains advertising text promoting the firm's "Stock of Embossed and Illuminated perfumery, fabric, wine and liquor labels, show, business, and visiting cards" in addition to "Card and Job Printing, in all its branches, executed in a superior style, at the shortest notice. " 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 19
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 614 K 512b
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 512b