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Title: [Chamberlin weather strips trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards featuring exterior views of buildings constructed with Chamberlin weather strips, including "Shriner's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.," "Gillingham & Hynes built terraces, Philadelphia, Pa.," and "Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa." Trade cards also contain the names of the architects and contractors, including Phillip H. Johnson and Raymond A. Raff Co. (Shriner's Hospital, 1926); Gillingham & Hynes (terraces); and York & Sawyer (Pittsburgh, Pa.), E.P. Mellon (New York), and W. T. Grange Construction Co. (Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital). Views surrounded by ornate border and flanked by vignettes of Chamberlin products, including sill and side strips for sliding windows; interlocking center for in-opening casements; brass sill--outopening casements; Chamberlin at D.H. sill; interlocking equipment for outside transoms; and corrugation windows., Title supplied by cataloger., Playing card designs printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chamberlin [P.9450.6-8]

Title: Philadelphia -- The new Delaware River Bridge -- Camden. We insure anything. Try us. This is a darn good blotter. T. Yorke Smith, 507 Federal St., Camden N.J. Real estate insurance. Both phones 316
Description: Advertising blotter depicting the Delaware River Bridge (i.e., Benjamin Franklin Bridge) spanning the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned by the Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission of New Jersey and the Delaware River Bridge and Tunnel Commission of Pennsylvania, the bridge was built 1922-1926 and designed by architect Paul Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Smith [P.9577.19]

Title: Joseph Kailler, carpenter and builder, 520 Mifflin St., Phila., Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card for Joseph Kailler, a Russian carpenter and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1895. Contains a vignette of a single family dwelling., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kailler [P.2002.67.7]

Title: Down where the cotton blossoms grow
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of African American cotton pickers, predominantly women and children, in a cotton field. Show the workers stopped from their work and posed toward the viewer. One of the women holds a baby. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Ester Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Printed on verso: Made in U.S.A., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back., Lipsher Specialty Co. operated 1909-1914 and published views of and around New Orleans.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.20]

Title: Sugar cane plantation
Description: Postcard depicting a group portrait of male African American sugarcane workers, including several boys, posed in a sugarcane field. Most of the workers, stand and hold canes, while two boys sit on reaped cane in the foreground. A wooded area is seen in the background., Date inferred from postmark: New Orleans, May 13, 1911, 9AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. John Wilson, 318 N. Jardin St., Shenandoah, Penna. Signed H.F.M., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Gift of George R. Allen., Divided back.
Date: [ca. 1911]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.65.19]

Title: William H. Rau, president. Photographers for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Rau Art Studios, Inc., photographers, 238 South Camac St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated business card depicting tiny embossed orange vignettes of an owl, lion, bird and instruments within an oval formed by a single orange line. Rau served as the official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad beginning in 1891 and the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1895. Rau, a professional Philadelphia photographer, began his career as assistant to Philadelphia photographer William Bell; served as the primary photographer of E.L. Wilson's Middle East photographic expedition (1881-1882); and was sole proprietor of a prolific photographic studio that issued lantern slides, stereographs, and photographs between 1887 and 1920. He was also official photographer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, a director of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, a president of the Pennsylvania Photographic Society, and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rau [P.9548.7]

Title: C.C. Whitenack, commercial photographer, 1944 N. Camac Street, Philadelphia 'phone diamond 844
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Whitenack [P.9627.1]

Title: What the wild waves are saying. Dainty miss, of germs be wary is your towel sanitary? Is it pure, and sweet and fair, like the ocean and the air? Is it soft - yet giving vim - when you rub down from your swim? If it's all this, maid so chary, then it's surely San-knit-ary
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a woman wearing a red swimsuit standing on the beach watching the water approach her. Men and women sit in the sand in the background. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The firm changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - San-knit-ary [P.9761]

Title: Quaker City Construction Co. limited. Artificial stone and fire proof material a specialty. Factory and office. 3870 Lancaster Avenue. Philadelphia Geo. Paist, J.T. Irwin, managers
Description: Advertising text printed on verso lists in two columns the various kinds of structures built by the Quaker City Construction Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quaker [P.2006.20.51]

Title: [Don't blow out the gas]
Description: Illustrated humorous trade card depicting a man with a long beard toting a bag and hat in his right hand about to open the door to enter a bathroom. The card opens up to reveal a disheveled-looking man in suspenders, perhaps one who has never seen an indoor bathroom, washing his face in the toilet. A sign reading, "Don't blow out the gas," hangs on the opposite wall above the bathtub., Copyright, 1901, by W.H. Carpenter., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on on verso includes numbers and prices: 500, $7.00 ; 1000, $12.00, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Selma Kessler.
Date: c1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Misc [P.2008.21.3]

Title: [Duesseldorfer "Progress Brand," Indianapolis Brewing Co. trade card]
Description: Illustrated metamorphic trade card for the Indianapolis Brewing Co. When folded, a gentleman attired in a suit, top hat, and cane expresses surprise upon viewing what appears to be a nude woman embracing a man. When opened, the trade card reveals that she is attired in a flesh-colored dress and stands on a veranda enjoying a beer with her male companion. Also shows two bottles of "Duesseldorfer" on the the table, a box of beer on the floor, and a servant delivering a silver platter to the couple. Includes a vignette of the company's brewing complex and trademark on verso. The consolidation of the C.F. Schmidt, P. Lieber, and C. Maus breweries resulted in the formation of the Indianapolis Brewing Co. in 1889., Title supplied by cataloger., Contains advertising text printed on verso: "Progress Brand" Duesseldorfer crowned over all others as the finest in the world. Paris Exposition 1900. Progress Brand. Indianapolis Brewing Co. brewers and bottlers of beer, ale & porter, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.A., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Selma Kessler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1901]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Duesseldorfer [P.2008.21.1]

Title: J.T. Moore, wholesale dealer & manufacturer's agent, wooden-ware, baskets, brooms, brushes, twine, cordage, &c. No. 235 South Front Street, Philadelphia
Description: Manuscript numbers on verso, including No. 356, No. 1., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Moore [P.2004.36.5]

Title: Compliments of Hershey Baking Co., York, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card surrounded by a flower border depicting the profiles of two women in Renaissance robes reading a letter in a garden. Hershey Baking Company was founded by Jacob S. Hershey in 1899 as a bread bakery in York, Pennsylvania., Embossed., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Hershey [P.9631.4]

Title: Julius E. Henkel, interior decorator, 912 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia Upholstering in all its branches
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Henkel [P.2006.20.17]

Title: Cluett, Peabody & Co., collar makers
Description: Illustrated trade card and easel cutout shaped into an upturned hand displaying a collar. Cluett, Peabody & Co., manufacturers of men's shirt collars, began as Maullin & Blanchard in 1851 in Troy, New York. After several style changes, Cluett, Peabody & Co. officially formed in 1899., Directions to display easel cutout printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Cluett [P.9983.6]

Title: Washing Department. Brighton Laundry 6th & Race
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting women washing, drying, and folding clothes in Brighton Laundry's washroom at Sixth and Race Streets in Philadelphia. A man observes the work scene from the doorway., Advertising text printed on verso: Brighton Laundry, second season of our summer starch, will commence first week in May. Lewis G. Carr. 158 N. 6th St., Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brighton [P.9962]

Title: The Gilbert Photo Co., Inc., 926 Chestnut St Gilbert's studio, 926 Chestnut Steet. Student discount card. Mr. [Herbert S. Kille] is entitled to a special discount of 33 1/3 per cent (from our regular prices) on all photographic work ordered at the time of presentation of this ticket at the studio. Retain this card during college term
Description: Illustrated trade card with the imprint for Gilbert's Studio in the upper left hand corner depicting a portrait within a shield surmounted by a rising sun and ribbons., Issued to Herbert S. Kille., Printed in blue ink., Manuscript note on recto: Walter Roberts., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Manuel Kean.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gilbert [P.8734]

Title: Miss. M. Peebles, fine millinery, 2816 Germantown Ave., Phila Our motto: quick sales and small profits
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the profile of a well-dressed woman holding up and inspecting a plumed hat. Maggie M. Peebles immigrated to the United States in 1886 and set up a millinery shop at 2930 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia in 1894 before relocating to 2816 Germantown Avenue in 1897., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Wright., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Peebles [P.9440.1]

Title: Frank Miller & Sons, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting five containers in ascending size order of Frank Miller's carriage top dressing and the arms of someone pouring the varnish into a container from a five gallon jug., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Miller [P.9993.4]

Title: Pettijohn's breakfast food by the American Cereal Co., address Chicago, U.S.A Everybody can eat it. All the wheat but the overcoat. A delicious and perfect food. Wheat is the natural food of man. "Bear" in mind our trademark. Hold this card up to the light
Description: Thin illustrated trade card depicting a container of Pettijohn's breakfast food. An inverted color container and brown bear printed on verso is visible on recto when held up to the light. The American Cereal Company formed from the merger of several oatmeal millers in 1891., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pettijohn's [P.9993.3]

Title: Vacuum Harness Oil, renders everything soft and pliable. For sale here
Description: Illustrated trade card for the Vacuum Oil Company in Rochester, New York. Divided into three titled panels, the first and third panels, entitled "Don't worry, swate biddy: the harness won't spile, for I've just rubbed it well wid favorite ile," show a man and woman sitting in a carriage protected from rain by a large umbrella. The second panel, "Hans, your muddar says she vants some hair oil; give her dat already, unt maybe it makes her more soft unt bliable, ain't it?" depicts a man handing a large container of Vacuum Harness Oil to his son., Advertising text printed on verso of three panels promotes Vacuum Harness Oil as a leather dressing that softens and preserves leather and a "sure cure for all diseased hoofs"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Vacuum [P.9993.7]

Title: Frank Diflo, locksmith, bell hanger and gunsmith, 1350 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia Guns and revolvers bought, sold and repaired. The highest cash price paid for old iron, copper, brass, lead, &c. Old stoves bought, sold and repaired
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of locks, keys, and bells., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Diflo [141.F.1]

Title: Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia L.C. Schuehler, 1222 N. Fourth Street. H.G. Schuehler, 142 Edward Street. Jobbing promptly attended to. Speaking tubes put up
Description: Manuscript note on verso: One $38.00 from O. Jorden, roof boiler house., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schuehler [P.2006.20.43]

Title: [Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting three sad irons in a wooden box; a caricature of Abraham Lincoln holding a document in his left hand as he uses his right to operate an Enterprise faucet to fill up a container with molasses; and an exterior view of the Forestry Building on the grounds of Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois for the 1893 world fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Columbus to the New World. The following text separates the caricature of Lincoln from the view of the Forestry building: "I found, when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet.", One print [P.9577.13] copyrighted 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, lith. N.Y., Printers and engravers include Maryland Lith. Co. (Baltimore) and Donaldson Brothers (New York)., Includes advertising text for Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" and "measuring faucet" printed on versos. Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" sold by C.Y. Schelly & Bro., Allentown, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9162] gift of George Allen., Digitized.
Date: ca. 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Enterprise [P.9162 and P.9577.13]

Title: Schaum & Uhlinger, successors to W.P. Uhlinger, Glenwood Ave. and Second St., Philadelphia, U.S.A Jacquard Machines, for every variety of fancy weaving. World's fair, Machinery Hall, Column O 49
Description: Illustrated trade cards depicting vignettes of three kinds of Jacquard looms built and sold by Schaum & Uhlinger, including the "Rotary cylinder 624th rise and fall Jacquard," "Rotary cylinder 624th single lift Jacquard," and the "Rotary cylinder 1248h double lift Jacquard". Schaum & Uhlinger was the partnership between Otto W. Schaum and William W. Uhlinger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schaum [P.9948]

Title: Stokes Brothers, lumber dealers, 30th Street below Chestnut, Philadelphia Thos. P.C. Stokes. John Airey
Description: Manuscript note on recto: Phone 112 W.P., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stokes [P.2006.20.37]

Title: Compliments of Quinlan & Fisher, 816 Arch Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bouquet of flowers. Quinlan & Fisher was a partnership between Francis T. Quinlan and Charles F. Fisher., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Quinlan & Fisher as "Philadelphia's greatest credit house," allowing customers to pay $1 down and $1 per week on a bill of $10. Includes a list of stock offered by the store and a price list printed below it for select items., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quinlan [P.9651.19]

Title: The best flour inside View of the famous Washburn, Crosby Co. flour mills and St. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, Minn
Description: Illustrated, metamorphic trade card depicting a windmill with panels that open to show bags and a barrel of "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" flour in the foreground and in the background, a bird's eye view of the Washburn-Crosby Co.'s flour mill complex, including "Mill C Elevator", adjacent to the St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also shows a train crossing the Mississippi River near the falls on the curved Stone Arch Bridge, which was built in 1883 by railroad tycoon James J. Hill for his Great Northern Railway. Cadwallader C. Washburn's business began as the Minneapolis Milling Company at the St. Anthony Falls site ca. 1856. John Crosby entered the partnership in 1877. Consolidated into General Mills in 1928 with twenty-six other national mills., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Superlative" and "Gold Medal" brands of flour produced by the Washburn-Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Washburn [P.9993.2]

Title: [U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the Halladay Standard pumping and geared windmill and the Gem steel wind engine windmill. Includes vignettes of farm life, showing men loading hay onto a horse-drawn cart and a man and his dog herding cattle. The United States Wind Engine and Pump Co. was founded in Batavia, Illinois ca. 1863., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co.'s "Halladay Standard Wind Mill" and "Gem Steel Wind Engine"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - United States [P.9993.8 & 9]

Title: John W. Pechin & Bro. Manufacturers of pure oak leather belting, worsted aprons, lace & picker leather. 228 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Price list for oak leather belting per running foot printed on verso in two columns., Distributor's stamp appears twice on verso: Address orders to Henry Tolman, engineers & general supplies, 228 Arch St., Philad'a, Penna., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pechin [P.2006.20.34]

Title: Use ideal cut plug
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an informal portrait of a woman sitting and lounging in a rocking chair with her hands behind her head and her legs crossed., Advertising text printed on verso: Notice. Coupons for pipes will hereafter be found in every package of ideal cut plug and will received instead of the labels. To secure free a handsome brier pipe send twenty-four coupons to Arthur Hagen & Co., 63 North Front St., Philadelphia, Pa. W.B. Tunstall, 43 South Holliday Street, Baltimore, Md. S.W. Venable Tobacco Co., Petersburg, Va. Ideal is the cleanest and best chew or smoke., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ideal [P.9983.4]

Title: Northwood Cemetery entrance. The beauty and adaptibility of the grounds are unsurpassed by any cemetery in the country Northwood Cemetery, near York Road and Haines St., Oak Lane Station, N.P.R.R. Office: 217 South Sixth Street. A. Austin, general manager
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting trees flanking Northwood Cemetery's entrance gate near Fifteenth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Headstones are visible in the distance., Advertising text printed on verso: Northwood Cemetery. Lots for sale as low as $25.00. Terms on a $25.00 lot: $1.00 to be paid at time of purchase; $1.00 per month thereafter, with the privilege to bury at any time after $10.00 are paid on said lot. Larger lots in same proportion. For further information, address by postal card or letter to B.F. Wilson, 1511 Stiles St., Philadelphia., Address for B.F. Wilson annotated on verso. Printed "1228 Citron Street" and crossed out., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Northwood [P.2004.36.4]

Title: Anniversary greeting. Stern Brothers, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a landscape surrounded by a large pink rose, leaves and vines., Embossed., Manuscript note on verso: Wishing you many Happy Birthdays. I remain your daughter Mildred., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stern [P.2002.51.3]

Title: "And Ruth said, intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." Ruth 1-16
Description: Illustrated trade card based on a copy of the oil painting "Ruth and Naomi" by Philip Hermogenes Calderon., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Ruth and Naomi" lithographic reproduction as a souvenir for patrons who submit five "Hires' improved Root Beer!" labels., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Hires [P.9592]

Title: Henry Disston & Sons, incorporated. Keystone, saw, tool, steel, & file works, Philadelphia, U.S.A Machine knives, paper trimming knives a specialty. Moulding blanks ; planer knives all sizes ; straight knives
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting hardware. The firm Henry Disston & Son was incorporated in 1886., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Disston [P.2002.67.9]

Title: Compliments of the Philadelphia Extention Top Shifting Seat Phaeton Co. C.K. Mellinger, patentee. Factory and salesroom; 2230 & 2232 Hamilton Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a carriage on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mellinger [P.2006.20.61]

Title: The beginning and the end of life (hold the picture 1 foot away for life and 20 feet for death.) Presented by William Deering & Co. Chicago, Ill. Grain & grass machinery
Description: Illustrated trade card and metamorphic picture depicting two girls playing with their pet dog and toys, strategically placed so that when viewed from afar, the scene forms the shadows of a human skull. William Deering became the sole owner of a reaper company in 1879 in Plano, Illinois and subsequently moved the business to Chicago, Illinois in 1880. The business was incorporated as William Deering & Company in 1883., Advertising text printed on verso promotes various harvesting and mowing machines manufactured by William Deering & Co., including the Junior Deering, the Standard Deering, the Deering Mower, Deering Giant Mower, the Warrior Mower, and the Deering Light Reaper. Informs readers that "the skull duggery practiced by some manufacturers of harvesting machinery, in palming off cheap machines on unsuspecting farmers, finds no favor in the Deering factory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Deering [P.9631.5]

Title: Our carrier pigeon. Columbus Buggy Co., Columbus
Description: Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into a carrier pigeon carrying an envelope addressed "Columbus Buggy Co. Columbus" and illustrated with a buggy. The Columbus Buggy Company was formed in 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio and went bankrupt in 1913., Advertising text printed on verso: Geo. M. Peters. C.D. Firestone. O.G. Peters. My mission is to inform you that the Columbus Buggy Co. of Columbus, O. have the largest and most perfectly equipped factory and manufacture the best vehicles in the world. Write them for catalogue and prices before buying., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Columbus [P.9983.2]

Title: Conlen's, 712 Passyunk Avenue, furniture and carpets. (over) Puzzle card
Description: Illustrated puzzle trade card depicting a bucolic country scene with a cottage surrounded by a picket fence. The puzzle requires the viewer to find partially hidden figures including a man mounted on a horse, birds, elephants, and people walking, to name a few., Advertising text printed on verso: Conlen's, 712 Passyunk Ave. Cash or credit. Terms on furniture and carpets made to suit purchasers. Bed room suits from $15.00 to $150.00. Parlor suits from $20.00 to $250.00. Carpets from 25 c to $1.25 per yard. Everything in the way of household and wearing apparel sold on the same easy terms. Conlen'sm 712 Passyunk Ave. Open every evening., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Conlen's [P.9940]

Title: Chambers, Bro. & Co., manufacturers of folding machines, also, machines that fold, paste and trim periodicals, 52d Street below Lancaster Avenue. Philadelphia. (Means of access, over.)
Description: Contains "Means of access" information printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chambers [P.2002.67.11]

Title: Edward Casperson, boot and shoe maker, No. 3647 Woodland Ave. (formerly Darby Road.)
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a man in medieval clothing, including a cloak, fur cap with a feather, tights, and sword, holds and inspects a skull in his right hand., Title, advertising text, and a list of street numbers divided into "North" and "South" columns are printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Casperson [P.2006.20.19]

Title: Andrew Beash, wagon and carriage painter, 4119 Market Street, West Philadelphia
Description: Trade card depicting a vignette of a calligraphic image of a bird., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Beash [P.2006.20.62]

Title: R. & J. Beck, opticians, No. 1016 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia W.H. Walmsley, manager. Spectacles, eye glasses, opera glasses, microscopes, thermometers, telescopes
Description: Illustrated trade cards for R. & J. Beck opticians depicting children attired in long coats with an umbrella walking in the rain toward an anthropomorphic thermometer and children with binoculars and a telescope looking toward an anthropomorphic owl and moon. The owl gazes back through a telescope at the children and their dog. Founded in London in 1843, the company's name changed to R. & J. Beck in 1865., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Beck [1975.F.71-72]

Title: Rolling cigarette
Description: Illustrated trade card for W. Duke Sons & Co., a manufacturing branch of the American Tobacco Co., depicting a female bicycle and trick rider performing in costume. She rolls a cigarette and sits on a penny-farthing or high wheeled bicycle. Also includes a small vignette of a bicycle on verso., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Honest long cut, the best smoking and chewing tobacco.", One of twenty-five cards included with tobacco packages and issued as one of a series by the American Tobacco Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Tobacco [P.2002.9.2]

Title: Geo. W. Allen, hatter, 808 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card illustration for hatter Geo. W. Allen depicts a decorative fan with an illustration of a boy and a girl holding and inspecting a bird's nest with eggs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Allen [P.9771.1]

Title: Photographing the baby
Description: Trade card after an 1870 Sol Eytinge Harper's Weekly illustration with white figures depicting a racist, caricaturized genre scene to promote the coach varnish firm Clarence Brooks & Co. Scene shows a white photographer taking the portrait of an African American toddler in hi studio. The African American figures are portrayed with caricatured and exagerrated features. In the right, the white photographer stands next to his camera and tripod. He holds a cloth in his right hand, at his side, and a yellow-colored, monkey-like string puppet in his raised left hand. He wears a beard and is attired in a long brown jacket and blue striped pants. Between him and his young sitter is a framed advertisement above maroon paneling on an olive-colored wall. The advertisement reads: "Clarence Brooks & Co., Fine Coach Varnishes, Cor. West & West 12th Sts." In the left, the African American girl sits stiffly on a plush, green arm chair. Her eyes are opened wide in a surprised expression. She wears a sleeveless pink dress with blue bows at the shoulders. Behind her, in the doorway, are two African American women. The younger woman, likely to be perceived as the girl's mother, peers around from the left of the doorway. She wears a stylish hat, white blouse, and red bow at her neck. An older woman, likely to be perceived as the girl's grandmother, stands in the right of the doorway. She wears a brown-colored bonnet with a large bow around her chin and a brown-colored dress and shawl. Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In the early 1880s the firm issued calendars illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes, often after Sol Eytinge Harper's Weekly illustrations., Title from item., Publication date inferred from dates of activity of publisher (1888-1892) as cited in Jay Last, The Color Explosion (Santa Ana: Hillcrest Press, 2005)., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., Housed with the Emily Phillips Advertising Card Collection., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: National Bank Note Co.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brooks [P.2016.17.1]

Title: J.W. LeMaistre. No. 48 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia Embroideries, laces, white goods, real and Nottingham lace curtains, corsets, gloves, &c
Description: Racist trade card promoting lace manufacturer J.W. LeMaistre and depicting a white man photographer showing a Native American person his photograph outside a pavillion. In the left, the Native American person, portrayed in racist caricature and attired a feathered headress, a tunic with a feathered skirt, hoop earrings, bracelets, and anklets, bends slightly forward and looks at a portrait photograph of themself. In the right, the photographer, attired in a long-sleeved blue shirt with a white collar, a pink bowtie, white pants, and black shoes, bends forward as he holds up the photograph from the floor with both hands. A large camera with hood stands behind him. Several white men pedestrians, an obelisk, and a neoclassical building can be seen in the left background. John W. LeMaistre (1840-1915) is listed in the Philadelphia directories as a lacemaker from circa 1880s. He incorporated the firm, the LeMaistre Lace and Embroidery Co., in 1905., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Includes copyright statement: Copyrighted., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - LeMaistre [P.2022.9]

Title: J.C. Hand & Co. Fine furniture, no. 1205 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description: Racist trade card promoting the J.C. Hand & Co. and depicting a caricature of an older African American man reading a notice on a country grocery store. Shows the man with a white beard and attired in a yellow brimmed hat, a long-sleeved red shirt, red and yellow pants with patches and held up by suspenders, and black shoes. He bends forward to read the sign on the boarded up, dilapidated store. It states in the vernacular that the Johnsing & Skinner Grocery is out of business and that, “Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me--dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing." The African American man is labeled as a creditor who says in the vernacular, “I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.” In the right, the man’s donkey is tied to an orange post behind him. In the background, fenced in fields and trees are visible. J. C. Hand & Co. operated circa 1882-circa 1884 and the failure of the business., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from the dates of operation of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: Johnsing & Skinner Grocery. Notis—De firm of Johnsing & Skinner am resolved. Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me—dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing. Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner—“I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.”, Text and illustrations printed on verso. Illustrations depict a closed sofa bed that looks like a chair with the caption "closed," and the open sofa bed resembling a cot, captioned, "open." Text reads: J.C. Hand & Co. 1205 Market Street. Manufacturers of Patent Sofa Beds. These beds can be made up as low as $25. In Raw Silk. We have a large stock of well made Furniture at moderate Low Prices. Size of Bed, 4ft. 6x6 ft. 2. Can be made any length or width. Estimates Given. J. C. Hand & Co., 1205 Market Street., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Hand [P.2011.64.34]

Title: [The Universal Plow Company, Canton, Ohio]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting monkeys dressed as jockeys racing on the backs of three rabbits through a field. Also includes vignettes of the rear adjusting and the front adjusting plows on verso., Copyrighted 1888 by Chas. Brown., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal patent front and rear adjusting plows. General purpose for two or three horses. All parts interchangeable in steel or chilled iron. Repairs always fit. The lightest draft, the best work, adjustments unsurpassed, no wrench, no trouble, no lost time. Send for circular. Manufactured by The Universal Plow Co., Canton, Ohio., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: For sale by H.M. Bushman & Bro., Carlisle, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Universal [P.2002.67.12]

Title: Philadelphia lawn mowers at Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy pushing a lawn mower in the grass of the Sunken Gardens in the foreground and the southwest elevation of Horticultural Hall in the background. Also shows a fountain and a man guiding a horse-drawn mower. The exhibition hall was built in 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann in West Fairmount Park for the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Building demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Price list organized by lawn mower style printed on verso., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Engle, Buchner & Kramer, hardware, 22 Main Street, Dayton, Ohio., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.9748]

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