Details
Creator Lehman & Bolton, lithographers.
Title Lehman & Bolton, lithographers, printers, engravers & publishers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia. [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia: Lehman & Bolton]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 30.5 x 24 cm. (12 x 9.5 in.)
Description Advertising calendar for 1881 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate setting containing patriotic allegorical figures and symbols, including Liberty with a lyre, marble bust, fasces, and an American shield at her feet sitting with the liberty pole draped across her lap and a laurel wreath on her head as she looks at an album of U.S. Presidents; flowers and cherubs holding grain, holly, a scythe, an umbrella, a watering pot, and other spring symbols; and the dome of the United States Capitol in the background. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
On bottom recto outside of gilt border: "Bell Telephone Communication."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSA 52
Subject Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishers and publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Liberty.
Cherubs.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Calendars -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Advertisements [P.9349.363]
Accession number P.9349.363