Details
Creator Geo. S. Harris & Sons.
Title [Geo. S. Harris & Sons.] Printers & lithographers. Nos. 718, 720, 722, 724 Arch St. Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Geo. S Harris & Sons]
Date 1883
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 26 x 20 cm. (10 x 8 in.)
Description Advertisement calendar for the year 1883 containing a sentimental, genre scene for the firm renamed Geo. S. Harris & Sons in 1876. Scene shows a woman attired in a diaphanous dress, with plunging neckline and a high-rimmed bonnet, seated under a branch of an apple tree. A cluster of flowers, a butterfly, and a paper fan dominate the foreground and in the background, a farmhouse on a hillside completes the scene. Also includes decorative trim in the upper edge. Harris, first listed as a printer in 1847, operated one of the largest Philadelphia lithographic studios in the later 19th-century. The firm specialized in cigar box labels and stock trade cards.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 36
Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Printers & Printing - Box 10 Folder 2 - Geo S. Harris
Smithsonian copy of print displayed.
LCP holds copy in Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection. [P.2011.10.164]. LCP copy manuscript note on verso: Eva Allen, 1603 Summer Street, Phila, Pa.
Subject Geo. S. Harris & Sons.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Farmhouses.
Flowers.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Calendars -- 1880-1890.
Location Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection| SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Printers & Printing - Box 10 Folder 2 - Geo S. Harris
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars - George S. Harris [P.2011.10.164]