Details
Contributor U.S. Card-Label Co., Limited, printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title H.M.S. Pinafore. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : U.S. Card-Label Co., Limited
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : color wood engraving ; 9 x 15.5 cm. (3.5 x 6.25 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a scene from Sullivan & Gilbert's comic opera "Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore" including a captain, his crew and women on the deck of a ship with two large spools of Willimantic's "Superior Six Cord Thread". Caption reads: "B.--Did you ever? C.--No! Never! B.--What never? C. Positively never! used anything equal to Willimantic Six Cord Spool Cotton."
Notes Advertising text printed on verso lists the awards won by Willimantic's Six Cord Spool Cotton, including the gold medal awarded by Maryland Institute Fair in 1878. Includes vignettes of the obverse and reverse surfaces of the medal.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Willimantic Linen Co.
Cotton industry -- United States.
Medals.
Operas -- Librettos.
Sailors.
Ship captains.
Ships.
Thread.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Wood engravings -- Color -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Willimantic [1975.F.666]
Accession number 1975.F.666