| Contributor |
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
|
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., publisher. |
|
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer. |
| Title |
Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup. Portfolio of views in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. [graphic] : Presented
by R.D. Pulford, druggist, Mineral Point, Wis.
|
| Publisher |
New York : The Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co. 56 Park Pl |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1876 |
| Date |
[ca. 1876] |
| Physical Description |
1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 34 x 14 cm. (13.25 x 5.5 in.) |
| Description |
Eight-page foldout advertisement for George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup" containing advertising
text pages and five views of Fairmount Park including the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812
and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women
racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson
for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include
people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks
the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages
along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic"
that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that
[Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Green was a patent
medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green.
|
| Notes |
Not in Wainwright. |
|
Philadelphia on Stone |
|
POS 330 |
| Subject |
Green, George Gill, 1842-1925. |
|
Pulford, R.D. |
|
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division. |
|
Patent medicines -- Wisconsin -- Mineral Point. |
|
Nonprescription drug industry -- Wisconsin -- Mineral Point. |
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Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River. |
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Tunnels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Leisure -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Kelly Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
|
New York Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880. |
|
Circulars -- 1870-1880. |
|
Advertisements -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Associated name |
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer. |
| Printer |
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Helfand Trade Cards - Patent Medicine - G [P.9828.1686a] |
| Accession number |
P.9828.1686a |
|
P.9828.1686a verso |
