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- Title
- Hall & Harrop, successors to N.P. Hall, deceased, wholesale and retail, dry goods store, No. 53 North Second Street, east side, a few doors below Arch Street, Philadelphia Cloths, cassimeres, cashmeretts, vestings, trimmings, bareges, balzorines, mous de lains, lawns, ginghams, calicoes, muslins, linens, shawls, gloves, &c. Isaac Hall, Jr. J. Thomas Harrop
- Description
- List of items sold printed in three columns below address., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Don Yoder and William Woys Weaver.
- Date
- [ca. 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hall [P.2007.41.4]
- 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
- While using children's elastic knee protector
- Description
- llustrated metamorphic trade card depicting a "before using" and "while using" scene of children playing inside. Before using, the children are seated and sullen with their heads in their hands because they have holes in their pants and tights. While using, they smile and build a castle. One boy holds a small puppet booth labeled, "Punch & Judy"., Advertising text promoting "Children's patent elastic knee protector" printed on verso below "before using" image, which folds up to create the complete scene., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chestnut [1975.F.208]
- Title
- Devlin & Co.'s Centennial souvenir. 1776-1876
- Description
- Illustrated souvenir trade card depicting two full-length figures of men modeling period clothing, one attired in Colonial dress and the other attired in a plaid suit, popular in the 1870s. Patriotic symbols separate and surround the figures, including stars, banners and an American eagle with a shield on its breast, clutching flags and the banner "E pluribus unum" in its talons., Contains advertising text (partially illegible after removing from scrapbook) printed on verso for Devlin & Co.'s leading American clothing house in two locations in New York City: Broadway and Grand St. and Broadway and Warren St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Devlin [5758.F.19e]
- Title
- [William B. Dixey trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards, including the titles, "Caught!" "Peacemaker," "Eggspectation," "The glorious fourth," "Sleighing," and "A fowl blow," for William B. Dixey's plumbing, gas and steam fitting business at 3826 Market Street in West Philadelphia. Illustrations include Christmas and Independence Day imagery and depict children performing a variety of activities, including picking apples, playing and pulling a Christmas tree in the snow, smelling flowers, acting, and diving. Also includes a man being blown up by a gas explosion, a group of men thrown onto the ice from their horse-drawn sleigh, frogs, ducks, chicks, eggs, flowers, balloons, dogs and cats., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co., Eleven prints contain the following advertisement: Agents for Hellyer's Water Closets., Four prints die cut and shaped into decorative fans., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dixey [1975.F.93; 1975.F.222a; 1975.F.224; 1975.F.228; 1975.F.232; 1975.F.233 & 234; 1975.F.236-239; 1975.F.241-243; 1975.F.263 & 264; 1975.F.278-281; 1975.F.285; 1975.F.287]
- Title
- Conrad Busche, manufacturer & dealer in plain and fancy confectionery, wholesale and retail, 1230 Columbia Ave., Phila
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card displaying the title, surrounded by a garland of flowers. Includes a seated cherub figure in the lower right corner and a bust statue in the lower left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Busche [P.9802.6]
- Title
- Wilbur & Hastings, stationers & printers, lithographers, blank book manufacturers, publishers of Martin's equation tables, 39 Fulton Street, (Fulton Bank Building,) New York
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting an American flag facing right., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wilbur [5786.F.16b]
- Title
- Parr's American camp chest, patented June 25th, 1861. For sale by Peter W. Rodgers, agent, No. 48 North Seventh Street, Philada
- Description
- Contents of "Parr's American camp chest" printed in two columns below title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rodgers [(2)5786.F.132a]
- Title
- Pennsylvania State Fair, Philadelphia, 1885. $41, 000 in premiums! Opens September 23d, closes October 14th Manufactures, machinery, implements, produce, live stock
- Description
- Advertising card containing a montage of captioned vignettes depicting the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Vignettes show the Main Building (Society of Arts); Poultry Agricultural Hall; Cattle Sheds; Restaurant; and Music Stand. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", Advertising text on verso: 31st. Pennsylvania State Fair, 1885. The spacious building and fine grounds, Broad St. and Lehigh Ave., Phila'a. for all the purposes of a grand exhibition of American industry, In [sic] all its departments, are unsurpassed in the United States. The lofty Main Building and its Annexes are devoted to General Machinery and Manufactured Goods, under the management of the Society of arts, office and books of entry, 411 N. 18th St., George W. Fryer, secretary. The Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry, as well as other Live Stock Buildings, are devoted to special agricultural machinery products and manufactures. Under the management of the Penna. State Agricultural Society, Office and Books of Entry, N. E. Cor., 18th and Market Sts. D. W. Seiler, Secretary, Cheap Excursion Fares on all railroads entering Philadelphia. Low special rates of transportation on all objects entered for exhibtion. Trains run to Fair Grounds without change. Books of entry close Sept. 16., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 288, See POSP 239, Free Library of Philadlephia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
- Date
- [1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia. | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [P.2014.41.1]
- Title
- Union Hotel, Fairfax C.H., Va. James W. Jackson, proprietor
- Description
- James W. Jackson, purportedly the first civilian casualty of the Civil War, leased the Union Hotel (ie., Wilcoxsen's Tavern) in Fairfax Court House ca. 1859., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jackson [(2)5786.F.132b]
- Title
- [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]
- Title
- [Chas. McKeone & Son Soap Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Chas. McKeone & Son Manufacturing Co. at 2518-2550 Callowhill Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a dog biting and pulling the pants of a white boy carrying a basket of fruit while another white boy climbs a stone wall to escape; a white child sitting on a pile of blankets with their pet dog beside an open doorway; a white boy hanging with his shirt caught on a tree branch while another white boy looks on with a basket on fruit at his feet; a white woman cradling a baby on her lap. Racist card depicting white women, an African American woman, and Chinese men working in a laundry room. In the center, a white woman and an African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in an orange head kerchief, a red dress, and a white checked apron, stand beside a wash basin and hold up a white cloth. A well-dress white woman comes over to inspect the cloth. In the left, a Chinese man, wearing a queue and mustache and attired in a black cap, a blue shirt, tan pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, holds up and inspects a box of "McKeone's Extract of Soap." Behind him in the background, another Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a yellow shirt, washes a white cloth in a steaming wash basin. In the right, a white woman carries a basket of clothes and another white woman washes laundry in a wash basin and looks on at the scene. Also visible are wooden crates, a basket of laundry, and a drying rack filled with clothes., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.620] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Advertising text promoting McKeone's "Crown Jewel Soap" and "Kalistine concentrated extract of soap" printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKeone [1975.F.181; 1975.F.183; 1975.F.185; 1975.F.620; 1975.F.622]
- Title
- Sea shore and country Japanese decorations, parasols, fans, scrolls, hammocks, &c. See our immense fire place screen fan, $1.65, all colors, George M. Lee, 1322 Chestnut St., Philad'a, Penna
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards die cut and shaped into hand-held fans depicting scenes of Japanese life, including a bird perched on the branch of a cherry blossom and a large man with a smaller male companion wading through water and carrying a baby bundled in cloth on his head., Title from text printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lee [1975.F.398 & 399]
- Title
- Chew, smoke Old Abe fine cut smoking, B. Leidersdorf & Co., Milwaukee, Wis
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln flanked by patriotic symbols, including an American shield and laurel wreath. Bernhard Leidersdorf and Henry Helmholtz started a tobacco factory in Milwaukee in 1858. Helmholtz left the partnership in 1869 and the firm continued operations as B. Leidersdorf & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized., H. Gugler & Sons, the partnership between Henry, Sr., Julius, Robert and Henry Gugler, Jr., formed in Milwaukee in 1878, however father Henry and son Julius had both been working in the lithographic trade with various partners in Milwaukee since 1871.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Leidersdorf [P.9983.1]
- Title
- [J.W. LeMaistre trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds; flowers; putti carrying a pine tree or Christmas tree; children holding up a large sign for J.W. LeMaistre; a lady attired in Renaissance or Medieval clothing; a woman standing on a tree branch over a body of water releasing fish she caught in her lace shawl; General Ulysses S. Grant smoking while standing on a globe labeled "United"; and children symbolizing various countries by wearing traditional clothing and carrying the countries' flags, including England, Italy, and Spain., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and lithographers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), McCalla & Staveley (Philadelphia) and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting products imported and sold by J.W. LeMaistre, including embroideries, laces, curtains, handkerchiefs, collars, cushions, silk ties and bows, and bibs sold at his 46-48 North Eighth Street establishment in Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - LeMaistre [1975.F.492; 1975.F.498; 1975.F.501; 1975.F.508-512; 1975.F.514; P.9811.1 & 2; P.9838]
- Title
- Thomas Magee, stationer, cor. Second and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a man hanging from a flagpole, gripping a hammer in his right hand. The Union flag faces right., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Magee [(2)5786.F.120a]
- Title
- Opening of Spring novelties. Mahlon Bryan & Co., tailors, Nos. 9 & 11 South Eleventh Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a waterfall, butterfly and scroll inscribed with the title. Mahlon Bryan & Co. was a partnership between tailor Mahlon Bryan and cutter Dagobert M. Rattay, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mahlon [1975.F.639]
- Title
- Mahlon S. Myers, (successor to Shimmel & Myers,) commission merchant, and dealer in flour, grain & feed, Nos. 239 North Water St., & 244 North Delaware Avenue, Phila In store, and receiving wheat, rye, corn, oats, mill feed, ohio oil cake, and all descriptions of country produce. I respectfully solicit consignments to the above address
- Description
- Twelve references printed in two columns on recto below title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Myers [P.2002.67.10]
- Title
- Maillard's chocolate
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two girls, one in bed, the other seated in a chair nearby, drinking hot chocolate. A dog has its front paws on the bed begging for hot chocolate. Boxes and packages of Maillard's "breakfast cocoa," "dietetic cocoa," and "pure cocoa" are piled in the foreground. Prize medals awarded to Henry Maillard are depicted in the upper left and upper right corners above the title., Retail price-list of Maillard's chocolates and notification of their gold medal prize at the Paris Exhibition in 1878 printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maillard's [1975.F.621]
- Title
- J. Mason, informs her friends and those who may favour her with their patronage, that she has removed her seminary, to an open healthy situation, with every advantage of light and air, back of No. 86 Callowhill Street, between Second and Third Streets, where she continues to instruct girls in all the most useful branches of an English education
- Description
- Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mason [P.9809.1]
- Title
- Ralph Mather agent, No. 76 South Front Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Title annotated. Originally printed as Ralph Mather & Co. agents and crossed out., Establishments connected with agent Ralph Mather printed below title in two columns. The first entry, Jaques Husbands, esq. at Mr. Lynde's, packer, London, crossed out., Manuscript notes on recto include additional establishments connected with Ralph Mather, including Ormond & Mordaunt & Co., Lisbon; Rich & Wm. Lee, London; and The Thornton Constantinople House in London, Wm. Thornton., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1795]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mather [7385.F.9]
- Title
- [William Y. McAllister trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for optician William Y. McAllister's shop at 728 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict idyllic landscape views of a forest, a stream, a cottage and ruins by a lake and anthropomorphic frogs, a stork, and an owl looking through telescopes and binoculars, reading and fishing., Title supplied by cataloger., Calendar for 1881 printed on verso of one print [1975.F.614]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McAllister [1975.F.610-614]
- Title
- T. McCandless & Son, fancy & staple grocers, S.E. cor. 20th & Pine Sts., Philadelphia Established 1844
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog sitting on a mushroom reading a book propped on an adjacent mushroom next to a skull and crossbones. T. McCandless & Son was a partnership between Thomas and his son James A. McCandless., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McCandless [1975.F.623]
- Title
- Henry H. McCargo, dealer in all makes of sewing machines, 1611 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Henry H. McCargo tucked into a spray of flowers., Advertising text promoting the "New Home Sewing Machine" and the "Improved Domestic, the Genuine Singer, No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, American, Household" printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Walter Bethel., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McCargo [P.9300]
- Title
- McClees' Express, between Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia Baggage, packages, and freight of all kinds collected and delivered. In Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, West Philadelphia and Philadelphia. Movings promptly attended to. Orders by mail addressed to Bryn Mawr, will receive immediate attention. Offices: Rosemont, Geo. W. Ireland's store; Bryn Mawr, rear of drug store; Ardmore, C.A. Dillon & Son's store; Philadelphia, 3733 Lancaster Ave.; 3212, 1710 and Wm. McMullen's store, 1203 Market Street
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a small vignette of a man loading a horse-drawn delivery cart., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McClees' [P.2006.20.65]
- Title
- M.F. McDonough & Co., importers, No. 117 South Front St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a scroll with the title inscribed superimposed onto two scenes, including a rose and diagonial border of rosettes and other geometric shapes and a snow-covered dwelling surrounded by bare trees., Title printed in purple ink., Letter printed on verso marked "Philadelphia, June, 1882" notifies M.F. McDonough & Co. patrons about the sale of "Eugene Clicquot" brand of champagne from France., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1882
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McDonough [1975.F.626]
- Title
- [McIlvaine & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for McIlvaine & Co., grocers, at Juniper and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict various birds, flowers and women outside feeding birds, picking flowers, and sitting near the ocean., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints copyrighted 1879 by Bufford's Boston., Three prints, part of "Series No. 9", copyrighted by Wemple & Kronheim, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1879]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McIlvaine [1975.F.324; 1975.F.581; 1975.F.629 & 630; 1975.F.643; 1975.F.649 & 650]
- Title
- London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - London [1975.F.500]
- Title
- Jacob Lorsch, dealer in gentlemen's furnishing goods, 344 South Street, Philad'a
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., Manuscript note on verso: B. Spatz, 2031 North 11th., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lorsch [1975.F.499]
- Title
- G.M. Loudenslager, dealek [sic] in cigars and tobacco, 480 North Third St., Philad'a
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22] for similar illustration., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507]
- Title
- Union Brass Works. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. 525 and 527 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Manufacturers of every variety of cocks for steam, gas, water, liquor, oil, etc. etc. Plumbers', steam or gas fitters', machinists', and coppersmiths' brass work. Steam whistles, globe valves, check valves, gauge cocks, oil globes & cups, couplings, &c. Brass casting and finishing generally. Over
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, a locomotive on a bridge, a large building, and a steamboat on a body of water. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co., the partnership between Richard McCambridge, John Fry and John Robinson, operated from 525 and 527 Cherry Street in the 1860s., Advertising text promoting plumbers' earthenware sold by M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. printed on verso. Text partially illegible after removal from scrapbook., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - M'Cambridge [(2)5786.F.161c]
- Title
- He loves me a little Novelty beauty & fashion. Maison Demorest. Agencies everywhere. Reliable patterns in sizes illustrated & described
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a winged cherub attired in a sheer robe standing on the leaves of a rose branch pulling the petals off of a flower. Madame Demorest's emporium moved to 17 East Fourteenth Street in New York in 1874., Advertising text printed on verso in ornate text: Centennial award over all cometitors. Maison de patrons, haute nouveaute, Paris & New York. Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and New York styles. Mme. Demorest's cosmopolitan emporium of fashions representative pattern establishment of Europe & America. Maisons dans les principales villes d'Europe et d'Amérique. [Address illegible] Paris, 11 Bouverie St., London (wholesale depot), 17 East 14th St., New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Demorest [1975.F.578]
- Title
- Maison Doree, No. 8 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. W.A. Clawson
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children at play, including two girls playing with a jack-in-the-box; two boys playing with a balloon and a dog; a boy playing a guitar and serenading a girl; and a boy and two girls dangling a cat toy on a string in front of their pet cat., Title from text printed on versos of three prints [1975.F.640-642]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clawson [1975.F.638; 1975.F.640-642]
- Title
- [Marks Bros. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a female Asian fairy figure with wings and chopsticks in her hair holding a fan and a flowering branch and butterflies encircling a plant in an urn with a geometric border. Marks Bros. was a partnership between William, Ferdinand and Emmanuel Marks., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Marks [1975.F.587 & 1975.F.589]
- Title
- A. Maron, 1612 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two girls gathered around a table picking at a large plate of sweets and two boys in horseback riding gear trying to mount the back of a large muzzled dog. Alfred Maron, son of Anna Maron who worked with Charles Penas at his 830 Walnut Street establishment, succeeded in Penas ca. 1885. Alfred Maron owned confectioneries at both 830 Walnut Street and 1612 Chestnut Street in 1885., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maron [1975.F.627 & 1975.F.631]
- Title
- Marshall House, "The Union and the Constitution." No. 243 N. Fourth St., above New, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade cards depicting an eagle with a ribbon in its beak and laurel wreath in its talons surmounting an American shield. P.A. Marshall operated a restaurant and hotel from 243 North Fourth Street in Philadelphia between 1860 and 1864., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Marshall [(2)5786.F.117e & (2)5786.F.170c]
- Title
- Maas & Vogdes, job printers, [N.E.?] corner of Second & Chestnut Sts., over Corn Exchange Bank
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting the coat of arms of Pennsylvania, including two horses flanking a shield adorned by a ship, a plow and three sheaves of wheat. An eagle surmounts the shield and clutches in its talons a scroll inscribed, "Virtue, Liberty and Independence". Maas & Vogdes, the partnership between William A. Maas and Joseph Vogdes, operated from the northeast corner of Second and Walnut Streets between ca. 1860 and 1866., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maas [5786.F.1e]
- Title
- Macdowell, engraver and printer, 1028 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a bench surrounded by a flowering bush., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Macdowell [P.2006.20.7]
- Title
- "Mack's milk chocolate." The best! It is pure! Ready for instant use. Boiling water only required
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a couple bowling; a woman shooting a bow at a target, while her male companion smokes a pipe; a man spying on a couple walking through a hayfield; and an illustration of "The Cow Jumps Over the Moon" showing cats playing fiddles as a cow jumps over an anthropomorphic, smiling moon. Mack's milk chocolate was manufactured by Basley & McAlvanah, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mack's [1975.F.575; 1975.F.577; 1975.F.580; 1975.F.590]
- Title
- Edward P. Macken, dealer in Key West, imported and domestic cigars, and tobacco, my 5 cent cigars a specialty. 1140 Pine St., Philad'a All daily, weekly and Sunday papers on hand
- Description
- Illustrated trade card embellished with a geometric border., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Macken [1975.F.616]
- Title
- The new Philadelphia clothing house. Mackey, Johnson, Turner & Co., 922 Chestnut Street One price
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl standing on large daffodil petals. The boy holds the girl's hands to help her down from a taller flower., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mackey [1975.F.710]
- Title
- Compliments of the MacKinnon Pen Company
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for MacKinnon Pen Company tucked into a spray of flowers., Distributor's stamp on verso: E.H. White, agt., Mackinnon Pen Co., 333 & 335 Chest. St., Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - MacKinnon [1975.F.576]
- Title
- Wm. MacMullan, Jr., grocer, (Successor to MacMullan Bros.) 1205 Market St., Philad'a
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for MacMullan tucked into a spray of roses., Price list of products sold by MacMullan printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - MacMullan [1975.F.588]
- Title
- A sweet tooth
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a little girl attired in a white dress and a hooded cloak eating and holding striped candy sticks., Advertising text printed on verso: Always use the best. Chas. W. Logan's choice flavoring extracts. Vanilla, lemon, orange, &c. Will not disappoint you - ask your grocer for them or send to Chas. R. Dixon, 664 Bankson St. (i.e., North Park Street), Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Logan's [P.9651.14]
- Title
- E. McKelvey, fine family groceries, 1118 Columbia Ave Choice family flour a specialty
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for M. McKelvey adjacent to a bird's nest in the grass with two brightly colored birds and a butterfly below the card., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKelvey [P.9802.13]
- Title
- [Partridge's cafe and dining rooms trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Edward Patridge's dining rooms, established in 1862, at 15 North Eighth Street and 19 South Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers, leaves, and acorns; two children attempting to capture a butterfly; a man in a clown suit carrying a bouquet of flowers walking by the light of the moon with a female companion; pottery adorned with cranes and Japanese imagery; and a woman selling produce to a man attired in Turkish clothing in a village near an establishment labeled "Partridge's cafe and dining rooms"., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the cafe and dining rooms and lists specific products served including Christmas cakes, ice creams, water-ices, frozen fruits, oysters, roast turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, veal, coffee, tea, chocolate, strawberries and strawberry cream., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge's [1975.F.687; 1975.F.690; 1975.F.692 & 693; 1975.F.699 & 700; 1975.F.706; 1975.F.711; 1975.F.720a; P.9708.1; P.9798.4; P.9802.11; P.9810.4]
- Title
- [The Old Continental Clothing Manufacturing Company trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two girls playing with a jack-in-the-box and a boy applying wallpaper while one toddler watches and another peers into a nearby bucket of adhesive., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Eckel, pr., cor. 19th and Market., One print [1975.F.187] tinted with blue ink and one print [P.9636.5] tinted with red ink., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the Old Continental Clothing Manufacturing Company's low prices and includes price lists., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Old [1975.F.187 & P.9636.5]
- Title
- [Old Judge cigarettes, Goodwin & Co., New York, U.S.A.]
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting patent information printed in gold on red bands attached to "Old Judge" cigarettes and surrounded by a scroll, florettes, geometric shaped-borders, and ornate text. Goodwin & Co. merged with other tobacco companies in 1890 to form the American Tobacco Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso entitled, "Important for cigarette smokers to know," promotes the rice paper (patented in 1878) used in "Old Judge" cigarettes produced by Goodwin & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Old [1975.F.365]
- Title
- Smoke the "owl" cigar 5¢
- Description
- Illustrated trade card and ornament die cut and shaped into a birdcage containing an owl perched on a cigar labeled "owl". Duplicate image printed on verso. The cigar manufacturing concern Straiton & Storm, producer of the "Owl" cigars, was founded in New York City in 1863., 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. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Owl [P.9983.3]
- Title
- [Dudley L. Page's confectionery trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Dudley L. Page's "pure candy" and "Boston candy manufactory" at 918 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict hands holding bunches of flowers and a cricket player attired in uniform holding his cricket bat in the air., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.673] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Page [1975.F.673 & 1975.F.681-683]