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Title: Bush's Allegheny House, Market Street, Above Eighth. C. I. Bush, prop'r
Description: Letterhead containing a vignette view showing the exterior of the five-story hotel at 814 Market Street. Guests arrive in a horse-drawn "Allegheny" coach, approach the entryway, and stand on the upper floor veranda. In the street, men ride on horseback and push handcarts. Also shows partial views of adjoining buildings, including one displaying clothing., Completed in manuscript on November 5, 1857 to "Dear Brother" from R.A. Ford detailing travel plans to Binghamton, New York by way of Great Bend and requesting instructions about the "E. Whitney property.", Manuscript note on verso: R. A. Ford. Nov. 5/ 57., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Sebald, Hugo, fl. 1850-1870, engraver
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.125]

Title: Wm. H. Hortsmann & Sons, manufactory & sales rooms, cor. Fifth & Cherry Streets. Philadelphia
Description: Letterhead containing an exterior view of the manufactory and adjoining showroom specializing in military clothing, trimmings, and paraphernalia at 51 North Third Street. Shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn cart, streetcars, and patrons entering the establishment. Business established in 1815., Completed in manuscript on January 16, 1862 to Providence Tool Company, Providence, R.I. by "W.H. Hortsmann & Sons" about the price of "U.S. Cavalry Blades to pass Government Inspection" and whether then can "commence delivery at once.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., See related print. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Industries - H, (7)1322.F.61d]
Creator: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.149]

Title: Samuel Hart & Co. Philadelphia and New York
Description: Playing card containing vignette portraits of George and Martha Washington, the American eagle and shield, and the ace of spades. Also includes banners, stars, and vinery. Samuel Hart & Co. began the manufacture of playing cards in Philadelphia and New York in 1849. George & Martha Washington Aces of Spades was one of the firm's most popular designs, with at least five different versions issued until after 1900., Printed on recto: Patented May 8 1866., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Samuel Hart & Co.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.178]

Title: Barren Hill Hotel, no. 1, (opposite the Germantown Road.) James Mewhinney, proprietor. Choice wines, liquors, and cigars
Description: Trade card for the inn, later known as General Lafayette Inn, containing an embossed image of a man driving a horse-drawn buggy. Also contains a decorative border. Mewhinney operated the inn, first called Barren Hill Hotel in 1869, from 1874 to 1895., Embossed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., LCP also holds duplicate in the Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia ephemera [Freedman Collection - Trade Cards, P.2013.87.30].
Creator: McClement Bros., printer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.7a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Trade cards [P.2013.87.30]

Title: Harrisburg, Pa. (Bridgeport)
Description: Pictorial lettersheet containing a bird's eye view showing Bridgeport (later Lemoyne) across the Susquehanna River from Harrisburg. Townscape lines the riverbanks and a train travels across a bridge parallel to a covered one. In the background, mountains are visible, and in the foreground, rail cars rest on tracks near the bottom of a hillside. Bridgeport was renamed Lemoyne in 1905., Printed below image: No. 1., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Magnus, Charles
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.135]

Title: Bought of C. Cumming & Co. Manufacturers & dealers in twine, glues, curled hair, hide whips, sand paper, lace leather, horns, bones, neats' foot oil, plastering hair & c. Factory -St. John STreet, above Beaver, Philad'a. Stores---nos. 3, 5 & 7 South Third St., Phila Superior hair mattresses made to order at short notice. Highest cash price paid for glue pieces, cattle tails, damaged hides and caroons. Printers' glue. A superior Article for Rollers
Description: Billhead containing an exterior view of the L-shaped glue factory, and courtyard. Smoke billows from the stacks on the roof and a weather vane adorns a tower at the cross-section of the building. One section includes vented windows and a chute into the yard, which contains crates and a lamp post. In the street, a horse-drawn cart travels toward one stopped near a gentleman. Charles Cumming operated a factory as a sole proprietor until circa 1855 when his firm C. Cumming & Co. was established., Name of proprietors (Charles Cumming and James R. White) and "Terms" printed below image. Terms detail "Current Accounts, Cash Jan'y 1st and July 1st. For Bills of $100 and over, 4 months negotiable notes. Bills less than $100 positively Cash less five per cent. Ground Bones, Neats' Foot Oil and Springs, Nett., Completed in manuscript to G.W. [Rernadon]? & Bros. on August 3, 1860 for" 2 boxes 'Coul whips" - 10 % of each. 20 gross at $600: $120., Inscribed in greasy pencil and in ink on recto: Ella Reed., Inscribed on recto: R H & Co. within a drawing of a diamond., Manuscript note on verso: C. Cumming. [Riera?] Herman & Co. $120. Augt 3 1860. Paid Sept 21., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Lowe, Samuel W., engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.127]

Title: United States Express Company, principal office, 82 Broadway, branch offices, 291 (corner Reade) and 416 Broadway. New York D.N. Barney, prest. T.B. Marsh, treas. C.A. Dewitt, genl. supt. East. Henry Kip, genl. supt. West
Description: Bill of lading containing an illustration comprised of a montage of scenes. In the left, a horse-drawn cart loaded with freight arrives at a train station at which several crates are piled by the tracks. In the right, a train travels through a town, past a church steeple. In the center, an American eagle perches, under a beacon of stars, on a safe box labeled "Security Speed." The privately-owned United States Express Company, operated 1854-1914, and served the northern states from New England west to Colorado. Ashbel H. and Danforth Barney founded the company., Completed in manuscript for "one box" shipping to F. Lamprecht, St. Paul, Minn., dated April 8, 1864, and signed (416) [D.M.L.?], Advertising text printed below image: General Express Forwarders and Collecting Agents to All Points throughout the West, North West, South West, Canada West, and on the Line of the New-York and Erie R.R. and its branches, under Charge of Special Messengers, on Passenger Express Trains., Liability terms printed on recto, including United States Express Company shall not be held liable for "any loss or damage by fire, the acts of God, or of the enemies of the Government, the restraint of Governments, mobs, riots, insurrections, pirates...nor upon frail fabrics....; nor upon any fabrics consisting of or contained in glass.", Manuscript note on verso: 1864 New York. April 8th. United States Express Co. Bill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Lossing & Barritt, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.147]

Title: Merchant's House, Third Street, above Callowhill. James Rochford, proprietor American plan. Electric light and steam heat. Open all night
Description: Letterhead containing a vignette showing the exterior of the five-story hotel at 407-415 North Third Street. Building also includes a veranda., Completed in manuscript on August 23, 1896 and addressed to Mr. [Byevley?] Grant, signed James Norford. Norford requests an extension in the payment of his rent., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Levytype Co.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.138]

Title: Compliments of Lehman & Bolton, lithographers, printers, publishers. 715, 171, 719 Arch Street. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement calendar for the year 1885 containing a sentimental, genre scene. Shows a long-haired child, possibly a boy, attired in a collared dress, bow at the waist, knickers, a wide-brimmed hat adorned with flowers, socks, and shoes with straps. The child holds a bouquet of flowers in one hand and holds out a sprig in the other. Advertisement also contains pictorial details depicting fruits and vinery framing the image. The firm, established in 1873 by William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. from Jacob Haehnlen's former establishment at Goldsmiths' Hall, specialized in commercial lithographs such as billheads, letterheads, and advertisements., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 122, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Lehman & Bolton
Date: [1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PRINt Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.165]

Title: Public Ledger Job Printing Office, south-west corner Sixth and Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card containing a whimsical view showing a colonially-attired typesetter and printer at a typesetting table and press in the presence of two foppishly attired figures., Text providing figures showing "the daily edition of the Philadelphia Public Ledger...taken from the Press Room Books for the weeks ending the 18th and 25th of March, 1871" printed on verso. Figures exceed 460,000., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Ledger Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.47]

Title: D. Landreth & Sons, 21 and 23 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia. Seeds & bulbs, implements and tools for farm, garden, greenhouse
Description: Trade card containing the image of a sparrow perched on a twig near a lady bug on a leaf. The seed company originally established in 1784 as David Landreth, was renamed David Landreth & Son in 1860., Advertising text on verso promotes "Prices Low. Catalogues Free," and the longevity, and extensive and first quality stock of the firm, including "Garden, Field & Flower Seeds, Agricultural Implements and Horticultural Tools.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: L. Prang & Co.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.14]

Title: [Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. fine carriages, wagons, etc., South Bend, Ind. trade cards]
Description: Trade cards containing views of "Studebaker Platform Spring Truck. No. 281." and "Studebaker Platform Spring Coal Wagon. No. 481 " Views also show horse teams hitched to the vehicles, the drivers, and background scenery of a storefront and coal mill. One of the cards also contains vignette views of Stuebaker Bros. Mfg. main and branch buildings printed on the verso. Buildings depicted include "Carriage Works, South Bend, Ind."; "Factory & Repository, 203-205 Michigan Ave. Chicago"; and "Wagon & Spring Wagon Works, South Bend, Indiana." Views include street and pedestrian traffic. Strudebaker Bros., established in 1852 and incorporated in 1868, opened a Chicago factory in 1884. Other "Branch Houses" included New York City; San Francisco; Kansas City; Portland, Oregon; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Salt Lake City Utah., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Gray & Parker, artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.60 & 61]

Title: Raffaele Orlando, tin smith, 1213 So. 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Trade card containing a vignette showing an "Excelsior" cooking stove., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.42]

Title: John Orr's Cohocksink's leading hardware store, 2033 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card containing a bust-length portrait of John Orr. Also contains list of "Where To Buy Reliable Goods, Just Dealing, Polite Attention and - Low Prices - Guaranteed by the following Popular Business Houses" printed on verso. Ten North Philadelphia and Germantown businesses listed, include Orr's, "Enterprise Laundry," "Undertaker and Embalmer" Henry Schneider, "General Upholsterer" Geo. F. Chinery, and "Original Diamond St. Grocer" Edmund A. Ryan., Printed on recto: [over], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.43]

Title: Pleis' celebrated fit powders & liver pills, 860 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card containing a parental scene using animal figures. Shows a mother and father bunny playing jump rope with their bunny child. The child bunny wears a ribbon around his neck and jumps under the airborne rope. Rabbit tracks are visible on the ground. Also contains several lines of advertising text on the verso. Text promotes the testing of the powder by "over 40,000 cases," its curative powers for any age and for any length of time of the affliction of "spasms," and price per box ($.85 cents or $1). Advertising text also promotes "Pleis' Vegetable Liver Pills" at "25 cents per box.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: c1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.45]

Title: J. V. Randall, carriage builder, Newtown, Bucks County, Pa Carriages in hand and made to order. All work warranted. Repairing of all kinds neatly and promptly attended to. Old carriage taken in exchange for new ones. Call and examine
Description: Trade card for Randall Carriage Manufactory containing vignette views of a flat top coach and convertible carriage. Randall Carriage Manufactory was established in 1857 by J. V. & W. Randall on State Street below Jefferson Street. John V. Randall operated soley by the early 1890s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.48]

Title: The Philadelphia Wagon manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa Wagons. Coaches. Autombiles. Ambulances. Nothing to risk when we do your work
Description: Advertisement blotters, reused as mounts, containing calendars and vignette views of wagons designed for specific firms by the manufactory. Wagons include H.H. Battles, flowers; Dexter's Tip-Top Bread (Springfield, Mass.); and Lit Brothers Furniture. Also contains cut-outs of fashionable female figures attired in dresses captioned in type "Most Beautiful"; "Merry Youth"; and "Easy Always" pasted on the versos., Printed below title: Wm. A. Rech, President; W. E. Marbaker, Vice President; and J. Edwin Rech, Secretary and Treasurer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.50-52]

Title: A. S. Renner, carriage builder, Perkasie Station, N.P.R.R. Bucks Co., Pa
Description: Trade card containing images of a convertible carriage and a coach., Printed in red ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.53]

Title: J. Sandberg with J. Simon, dealer in ready-made clothing and gent's furnishing goods, no. 429 North Second Street, East side, Philadelphia Orders promptly attended to. Quick sales. Small profits
Description: Trade card containing a vignette showing a menagerie of men's clothing, including collars, a cravat and bow tie, vest, a shoe, plaid trousers, and a coat. Imagery also includes a scissor. Sandberg is listed in city directories as a peddler 1862-1863., Scribbles in pencil on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.55]

Title: Pope's rifle air pistol gallery, 41st Street, opp. Poplar, Centennial grounds, 40 ranges, 10 shots, 10 cts
Description: Trade card for the Boston pistol manufacturer containing a comic image titled "When the Swallows Homeward Fly." Shows a man, a bib at his neck, eating from plates with a roast and a whole chicken. The large-eyed man places a spoon of food into his very wide mouth. Also contains an image of a $5.00 "Pope's Rifle Air Pistol," advertising text, and "A Few of the Many Testimonials" printed on the verso. Advertising text includes details about the adjustable gun stock, ease of loading for a "lady or boy," and additional paraphernalia (darts, slugs, and ramrod claw wrench). Albert Pope established Pope Manufacturing Company circa 1865., Printed on recto: [over]., Stamped on verso in red ink: Prices Reduced. Black from $5.00 to $3.00. Nickel $6.00 to $4.00., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: 1876, c1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.46]

Title: John F. Schreck, manufacturer of Conestoga tobacco, chewing and smoking. It's all in the quality It's all in the quality
Description: Trade card containing a view showing a four-horse team conestoga wagon passing a mountain side. A man rides one of the horses of the team and a dog follows the wagon. Lancaster County, Conestoga Township began to serve as a center for the production of tobacco in the 1860s., Mauscript notes in pencil on verso, including: 9 full Molding Wash Board., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.56]

Title: Soapine is the very best washing powder
Description: Trade card for the Philadelphia branch of the Kendall Manufacturing Company containing a view by English artist and illustrator Helena Maguire who specialized in country scenes of animals and women. Shows a group of three rabbits in front of their hutch. One sniffs a lettuce leaf., Title from advertising text printed on verso. Text also reads: New Large Package, 5c. Former 5c. Package reduced to 3c. Quality Guaranteed. to get one of our magnificent Mounted Pictures, bring 25 Whales cut from the packages, or 10 Whales and 15 Fronts of Wrappers from Kendall Mfg. Co.'s Soaps to our Office, 1207 Fairmount Ave., Phila, Pa. They cannot be mailed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.57]

Title: Fruit of the Loom. Industria et spe
Description: Oval-shaped textile label for the firm established in 1851 by B. B. & R. Knight Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island. Shows a woman seated by a loom near a cotton plant. Also contains a logo., Contains color wood engraved border., Printed and inscribed on recto: No. 490. Patt. Z59. Irish Manufacture Size 50., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.101]

Title: [Textile label depicting the American eagle]
Description: Shows the American eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows atop of a globe positioned to display the Atlantic Ocean. American flags border the globe and a suspension bridge, probably the Brooklyn Bridge, is visible in the background. Vessels travel underneath the bridge., Printed and inscribed on recto: No. B605 E.L. 3/2 Yds. 60 Ins., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.102]

Title: Hill Manufacturing Co. Lewistown, Maine
Description: Textile label for the cotton mill established circa 1854. Contains ornamented lettering and a decorative border. The manufactory produced sheeting, sheet cloth, and other cotton goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.103]

Title: Woolson Spice Co., manufacturers of Lion Coffee, spices, baking powder, etc. Toledo, Ohio A picture card in every package
Description: Pictorial envelope containing pictorial imagery and advertising on the recto and verso. Imagery on recto shows a lion leaning over the top of a rolled out scroll on which a cup of coffee rests. Vignettes on the verso depict 100 and 50 pound cabinets for shipping "bulk Roasted Coffee" adorned with signage reading "Drink Woolson Spice Co.'s Roasted Coffee." Verso also contains several lines of advertising text about the cabinets, including the design (well seasoned, wood tongued, and grooved); price suggestions for resale ($1.50 to $2.00); how to procure them from Woolson Spice Co.; and the disclaimer "Lion coffee is not sold in these cabinets.", Addressed in manuscript to: Exchange Bank, Oxford Junction, Iowa., Date inferred from partial ink-stamp post mark: 7 30 PM [18]92 Ohio., Contains two-cent stamp printed in red and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington., Slogan printed above image: Do you handle Lion Coffee?, Advertisting text printed on recto: A Picture Card In Every Package., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.93]

Title: The Shaker extract of roots. Sold by A.J. White, New York City. Office, 29 Murray Street
Description: Envelope containing ornate lettering and details promoting the syrup, also known as Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup, introduced into the market by White circa 1876. White's company, which specialized in the wholesale of Shaker medicines, operated until 1957., Addressed in manuscript to: Martin Kishpaugh Esq, McMichaels, Monroe Co., Pa., Contains three-cent stamp printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.94]

Title: American & Howe pin companies' adamantine pins
Description: Pin label containing pictorial details, ornate borders, and filigree. Details include urns, gargoyles, and a vase. American Pin Company established in 1846 and Howe Manufacturing Company established in 1833 operated the only pin manufactories in the United States in Connecticut by 1848., Printed on flaps: American & Howe Pin Cos' 5 Adamantine Pins., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.100]

Title: Pig tail
Description: Label, possibly a cigar label, containing a vignette of a pig with a curly tail., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.98]

Title: Wag tails
Description: Label containing a scene showing two dogs near tall grasses and plants in a fenced pasture. Trees are visible in the background., Printed on recto: No. 6214. Also blank. $12.50 per 1000. $1.35 per 100., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.97]

Title: Washington. Printed by S. H. Greene & Sons. Riverpoint, R.I. Coffin, Altemus & Co. Sole agents
Description: Textile label for the textile print works founded in 1828 by Simon H. Greene and Edward Pike. Depicts Washington, in uniform, holding a sheet of paper, and standing next to his horse near a river. Label also contains corner details of fasces and United States shields framed in garland. The firm, renamed S. H. Greene & Sons in 1865, were nationally known for their "Washington" line of printed textiles., Stamped on recto: 41 2, Copyrighted in Washington, D.C., Inscribed on verso: Cora cora Ott. Samuel Sassemon., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: c1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.99]

Title: A plan of the borough of Harrisburg
Description: Reproduction of the grid street map showing the old 8th Ward of the city after incorporation into Harrisburg city limits in 1838. Includes the area between the Susquehanna River and Paxton Creek and Paxton Street to North street. Also includes bridges, the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad, and Pennsylvania Canal., Includes "Explanation" of key to twenty major landmarks (A-T), including the State Capitol, Court House, and several churches., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1938]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.179]

Title: Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada No. 84 Chestnut Street and without whose signature to this label it cannot be genuine. D. Jayne [facsimile signature]
Description: Patent medicine label containing an "infirmary" scene with four women, including a nursemaid, and several children. Shows the nursemaid comforting a girl as she is fed a spoon of medicine from a seated woman upon who children crawl and tug. In the left, another seated woman holds a baby. Behind her, a woman reaches for a jar of medicine on an upper shelf in a large cabinet. Jayne began to produce the carmative balsam (probably his first patent medicine) in 1831, which remained on the market until the 1930s., Printed below image: Keep the Tops of the Bottles Up., Several lines of advertising text printed on recto. Text promotes the balsam as a "safe and effective remedy" for several ailments, including griping pains, headache, hysterics, nervous tremors and twitchings, and "for all bowel affections and nervous diseases.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Upper right corner missing.
Date: c1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.170]

Title: Super, Marshall & Co., Philadelphia. Great Britain
Description: Embossed textile label for the Philadelphia linen dealer reincorporated as Super, Marshall & Co. in 1889. Contains the image of an armored arm holding a battle axe in its hand framed by pictorial details representative of royalty, including a crown., Printed and in manuscript on recto: No. 8641., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.171]

Title: [Die-cut textile label depicting the United States Capitol Building]
Description: Shows the East Front and grounds of the Capitol building, including the cast-iron dome completed in 1866 and landscaped gardens. Also contains the vignette, profile portrait of a Native American man in a headdress, and a garland frame., Title supplied by cataloger., Embossed and stamped on recto: No. 2202. Yds., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.172]

Title: Take a ride on the 25 mile per hour day steamers Penn & Lord Baltimore or Ericsson Line between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Leaving each end daily 7-30 every morning, commencing May 9th night boat 5 p.m. daily except Sunday
Description: Die-cut celluloid bookmark advertising the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company. Bookmark shaped and printed to represent a carp. The steamboat company, established in 1844 by John S. Shriver, originally hauled freight until the increased demand for passenger service circa 1876. The firm operated until circa 1959., Title from advertising text on verso., Date inferred from advertisement in "The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition" (1904)., On verso: Book Mark., Motto printed on verso: "It Takes a Live Fish to Go Up Stream. Any Dead One Can Float Down., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Whitehead & Hoag, established in 1892, was one of the largest advertising firms at the turn of the century, as well as patented celluloid.
Date: [ca. 1904]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.173]

Title: Bought of John Hays & Co., miners and dealers in all kinds of hard and soft coal and coke. Office and dock: C. & P. R'y coal pier and 9 Prospect St. Cleveland, Ohio We handle or screen our coal with forks, as in the above cut. The coal is taken up entirely free from slack, and is not broken, as when thrown against a screen. See that this cut is on the back or face of the card or bill accompanying each load. None genuine without it. J.H. & Co
Description: Receipt containing an image showing a laborer using a pitch fork to load a "John Hays & Co. Ridge White Ash Coal" rail car. A mound of coal on which a pitch fork rests is visible on one end of the car. The head of a horse is partially visible behind the opposite end of the car., Title from text on verso., Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. G. Whitney on September 4, 1877 for "2000 pounds Carbon Ridge, Lump.", Contains punched whole in upper right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.174]

Title: [Mechanical calendar issued by New Jersey electrician Romaine Mace]
Description: Illustrated mechanical calendar containing four genre scenes representing "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter." Spring scene shows an organ grinder watching his "escaped" monkey walk across the balustrade portico of a city residence under the gaze of excited children. Summer scene shows a woman in bathing attire wading in the ocean. Piers are visible in the background. Autumn scene shows a horse-trotting race. Winter scene shows a masquerade ball. Also contains a vignette showing an hour glass adorned with wings and a pictorial detail depicting a ribbon at the center., Contains three rivets., Patent Applied For., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: c1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.167]

Title: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, N.Y, solicitors of American and foreign patents and publishers of the "Scientific American."
Description: Trade card-size advertising calendar containing illustration drawn by Frank Bellew and captioned "Ready-Acting Dog-Tail and Gun-Barrel Attachment." Shows a hunter, with a hunting basket containing a frog on his back, and his dog wearing the gun attachment "Invented by Donald Read" at a pond. The hunter holds a bullfrog in one hand and the trigger attachment in the other as the dog is aimed at a frog in the water. A farmhouse is visible in the background., Contains several lines of advertising text promoting "Scientific American" "the oldest, largest, cheapest, and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to Engineering, Mechanics, Chemistry, New Inventions, Science and Industrial Progress, published in the United States" on recto. Text describes the depth of the engravings, subscription prices, and benefits of a subscription., Contains calendar for year 1875 and several lines of advertising text promoting "Patents, Munn & Co. Established 1846" on verso. Text solicits for inventor's patents, notes "special notices" in "Scientific American," and advises the attainment of their pamphlet detailing patent laws., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.168]

Title: French spy
Description: Label, possibly for tobacco, containing a scene showing a white man with sword in hand threatening a black man on the ground, his sword laying at his side. The men wear Arabian and Middle Eastern- looking garb, including turbans, tunics, and sandals. Imagery possibly alludes to the J. T. Haine's play "The French Spy" first performed circa 1860., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.169]

Title: A.W. Stevens & Sons, manufacturers & patentees, Auburn, New York. The new Stevens spring tooth harrow
Description: Fold-out flier containing two illustrations, including a cover image. Cover image shows two fashionably dressed girls seated in a goat carriage. One girl holds a muff. Other image depicts captioned scenes comparing and contrasting farmers using and not using a "Stevens Arch-Frame Harrow." Scenes separated by a pictorial detail of shrubbery and stones. In the left, a strident farmer follows behind his buoyant horse team pulling a Stevens Harrow over an area of stones "and fears no snag." A dog romps besides the horses. In the right, a hunched "old-fashioned" farmer realigns his "straight frame harrow" entwined with old growth behind his haggard horse team. A dog crouches away from the scene where the "Farmers' Dismal Song is 'That's the Harrow my Back to Break.'" The Stevens firm, established in 1842 by A.W. Stevens, was renamed A.W. Stevens & Son in 1870. The firm operated under that name until 1898., For Sale By, [signed in pencil] Mory., Several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes and explicates the success, design, patents, and ordering of the "All Steel, Arched Frame" Stevens Spring Tooth Harrow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.175]

Title: [Illustrated letter seals containing admonitions]
Description: Series of single and parts of sheets of illustrated letter seals containing humorous, positive, and negative admonitions. Illustrations predominantly depict modes of transportation, including a sailing ship, steam boat, and locomotive and animals, including a cat holding a rat, parrot, slug, frog, bat, and dog. Other images show a blacksmith, a well, rings, flowers, a house, a church, a couple in an embrace, and a bundle of wheat. Admonitions include "Good Eye"; "All's [Well]"; "Friendship, Love, Truth"; "Stop Your Clatter"; "Forget Me Not"; "I Bear the Hopes of Many"; "How I Love You"; "Contentment"; "Remembrance";"Fidelity"; "We Bloom Today, Tomorrow Die"; "The Road"; "You Deserve Thrashing"; "News"; "Express"; "Slow But Sure"; "Keep Dark"; "God Bless You"; "Are You Musical"; "Strike While the Iron's Hot"; and "Memory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.177.1-9]

Title: Toki o cigarettes
Description: Textiles from a series of premium tobacco silks containing half-length portraits of prominent Native American chiefs. Depicts Chief Joseph; Many Horns; and White Shield. All are shown with feather head pieces. White Shield wears a large cross. Chief Joseph silk numbered "20.", Printed above images: Factory No. 649, First Dist., N.Y., Printed in lower right corner of P.2011.10.176.1: 20., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.176.1-3]

Title: Cornish & Co., new manufactory. High grade organs & pianos, Washington, New Jersey, U.S.A
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a bird's eye view showing the organ and piano manufactory complex. View includes street and pedestrian traffic, including two trains and several railcars. Also shows surrounding buildings. Cornish & Co. was established circa 1880 and operated until circa 1922., Title from printed return address., Addressed in manuscript to: Post Master [stamped] Birchrunville, Chester Co., Penn., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in blue ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Numeric calculations in pencil on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.76]

Title: Dausman Tobacco Company, St. Louis
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a trompe l'oeil vignette showing the head of a horse ripped through paper. The horse chews on a piece of wood. Henry Dausman operated a tobacco business as Dausman & Drummond 1873-1876 and Dausman & Drummond Tobacco Company circa 1876-circa 1879 and his retirement., Date inferred from name of firm., Addressed in manuscript to: D.T. Sample Jr., Washington, Pa., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Pittsburgh Jan 24, 7 PM and cancelled three-cent postage stamp printed in green ink and containing a profile portrait of George Washington., Printed below image: If not delivered in 10 days return to. Return To Johnson, Eagye, & Earl, Pittsburgh, Pa., Manuscript note on recto: Paid Mar 13, 1882., Accompanied by Johnson, Eagye, & Earl, wholesale grocers billhead completed in manuscript to D.T. Sample, Jr., dated January 23, 1882. Advertises "Special Brands of Tobacco," including "Horse Head." Charges listed include 2 boxes cheese, coffee, and cocoa for $29.41. "Paid Mar 13-82." [P.2011.20.77a], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.77 & 77a]

Title: Making ends meet
Description: Trade card for the Philadelphia branch of the Singer Sewing Manufacturing Company containing a comic view showing a boy sewing the ends of two cat's tails together with a Singer sewing machine. Two other boys hold the horrified looking cats, while a dog sits near the machine. Singer Manufacturing Company relocated to 1202 Chestnut Street in 1882., Advertising text printed on verso: Principal Office of The Singer Manufacturing Company Removed to 1202 Chestnut Street. Genuine Singer Sewing Machines. At Low Prices For Cash., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., For duplicate, see trade card - Singer [1975.F.865]
Date: [1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.59]

Title: Emerson, Smith & Co., L'td., saw manufacturers. Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Penn'a
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a trademarked vignette showing the "Damascus Temper" sword. The Emerson firm, established in 1830 by James E. Emerson, was renamed Emerson, Smith & Co. in 1877. The company was reorganized as a limited partnership in 1884., Date printed on recto., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.79]

Title: American Hotel, S. M. Heulings proprietor, Chestnut Street bet. Fifth & Sixth, opposite Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Pictorial envelope advertising the American Hotel and containing a view of "Independence Hall, Directly Opposite the American Hotel" on the verso. Image also shows the Bailly statue of George Washington and pedestrian traffic, including couples on promenade and in conversation., Title from printed return address., Upper right corner removed., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Philadelphia Oct 3 8 AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. Wm. Fulmer, Bloomsberry, New Jersey., Accompanied by illustrated letterhead completed in manuscript to Mr. Wm. Fulmer ("Dear Bro.") from A.M. Henkel, dated October 2, 1876 describing a wedding trip, including a visit to the Centennial Exhibition. Illustration duplicates illustration on corresponding envelope. [P.2011.10.69a], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.69 & 69a]

Title: May I. C. U. home?
Description: Specimen to advertise sets of escort cards (i.e., acquaintance cards) containing a vignette surrounded by a decorative border. Vignette depicts two frogs, facing each other, and holding hands., Stamped on verso: 40 Escort Cards, 35 designs for 10 cts., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.62]

Title: To make good butter use Kerr's "Acme," 'Kerr's "Unexcelled," or Kerr's "F.F." salt for sale by Wm. Auchenbach & Sons, Pottstown Pa
Description: Advertising blotter containg an image of the champion race horse "Sunol, 2.081/4, B. M., by Electioneer, Dam Waxanna, by General Benton." Sunol, foaled in 1886, was a champion three-year old., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.63]

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