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[Joseph Hoover trade cards] [graphic].
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
[Joseph Hoover trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1888
Date
[ca. 1888]
Physical Description
2 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 13 cm. (3 x 4.75 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for Joseph Hoover's pictures and frames business at 628 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a business card for Hoover tucked into a pink roses and a boy crying and watching another boy pull on the legs of a dog that is attacking another animal. Joseph Hoover, a Swiss-German chromolithographer, operated his chromolithography, engraving, and picture frame business from 628 Arch Street in Philadelphia between 1880 and ca. 1888.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [P.9651.13] copyrighted 1888 by J. Hoover.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes Joseph Hoover's products as holiday presents, including paintings, engravings, plain and colored photographs, velvet, ebony and gold photograph frames, and oleographs. Also promotes a moving sale (c1888) with reduced prices on these items.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Hoover, Joseph, 1830-1913.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Animal attacks.
Boys.
Dogs.
Roses.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Hoover [1975.F.412 & P.9651.13]
Accession number
1975.F.412
P.9651.13
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Ephemera Collection
Trade Card Collection
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