Details
Creator Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Title E. Ketterlinus, steam power letter-press and lithographic printing house, n.w. cor. Arch & 4th sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Gilt, embossed and illuminated labels, for manufacturers, liquor dealers and perfumers. Show cards, filled up & blank for the trade. Ball tickets, programmes, &c. Banks furnished with lithographed check with government stamps.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [1870]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, etched and gilted; 24 x 15 cm.(9.25 x 6 in.)
Description City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. 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.
Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso).
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 23
Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
Subject Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Color -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b
Accession number (82) 10840.O.854b