The Shaker extract of roots. Sold by A.J. White, New York City. Office, 29 Murray Street.
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]
[The Old Continental Clothing Manufacturing Company trade cards]
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]
[Old Judge cigarettes, Goodwin & Co., New York, U.S.A.]
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]
American & Howe pin companies' adamantine pins.
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]
Pig tail
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]
Smoke the "owl" cigar 5¢.
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]
[Dudley L. Page's confectionery trade cards]
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]
Painter, Read & Eldredge, fashionable clothing, Franklin Hall, 321 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Title
Painter, Read & Eldredge, fashionable clothing, Franklin Hall, 321 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a colorful dragon and a smaller insect., 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 - Painter [1975.F.719]
Wm. Painter & Co., bankers, No. 110 South Third Street, buy all kinds of quartermasters' vouchers, including certificates for deserters, and court martial certificates.
Title
Wm. Painter & Co., bankers, No. 110 South Third Street, buy all kinds of quartermasters' vouchers, including certificates for deserters, and court martial certificates
Description
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 - Painter [5786.F.9p]
"The Palace," 323 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Next door to "Fidelity." Imported & domestic segars, meerschaum goods and smokers' articles.
Title
"The Palace," 323 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Next door to "Fidelity." Imported & domestic segars, meerschaum goods and smokers' articles
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women looking at the ocean through binoculars, standing outside amidst trees and herding sheep. Also shows figures attired as clowns spanking and kicking one another, stumbling with a bottle of wine, carrying packages, discovering discarded clothing, dropping fruit after being captured by a uniformed man with a sword, eating, and playing a horn., 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 - Palace [P.8666.3m; P.8666.3o; P.8666.3r-x]
Wag tails
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]
Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia.
Title
Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia
Description
Trade card die cut and shaped into a pipe thread. Pancoast & Maule was formed by Henry B. Pancoast and Francis I. Maule in Philadelphia., List of available tubes, pipes, radiators, gauges, tools and supplies printed in two columns 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 - Pancoast [P.9788]
Washington. Printed by S. H. Greene & Sons. Riverpoint, R.I. Coffin, Artemus & Co. Sole agents.
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]
Parker's dyspepsia cure.
Title
Parker's dyspepsia cure
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a "cut-i-cure-u" saw., Advertising text and prices printed on verso for the "cut-i-cure-u wood saw" produced by the J. Barton Smith Company, Gilbert Parker, treasurer, s.e. cor. Fourth and Somerset Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 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 - Parker's [P.2002.67.13]
E.H. Parry, fashionable hatter, S.E. cor. 10th & Market Sts. Phila.
Title
E.H. Parry, fashionable hatter, S.E. cor. 10th & Market Sts. Phila
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses., Advertising text printed on verso promotes gentlemen's and youths' hats and a comprehensive line of straw hats for sale at E.H. Parry's store., 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 - Parry [1975.F.667]
A plan of the borough of Harrisburg.
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]
S. Twitchell & Bro. Manufacturers, importers and dealers in bottlers' supplies, 225 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Penn'a.
Title
S. Twitchell & Bro. Manufacturers, importers and dealers in bottlers' supplies, 225 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Penn'a "Our motto,--full weight, measure, count and quality." Selden Twitchell. Oscar Twitchell. Manufacturers of spirit coloring, malt coloring, sarsaparilla coloring, ethers and amyls, Belfast ginger ale, tonic and birch beers, pear champagne cider, lemon soda, wild cherry tonic, Phila. cream mead, foam or gum, and all other bottlers' extracts, also bottling tables, filterers, filling machines for internal stoppered bottles, etc. Dealers in and importers of essential oils, corks, bottles, tartaric and citric acids, oil vitrol, whiting, marble dust, bottle washing and rinsing machines, lightning stoppers, neck wires and par. Cork fasteners, bottling tables, etc. shipping cases, etc. Hutchinson and all other patent stoppers, etc
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a glass bottle and a sectional view of a closed mouth of Twitchell's Improved Globe Stoppered bottle printed on verso. Also includes Twitchell's trademark printed on recto., Advertising text printed on verso describes bottle improvements made by S. Twitchell & Bro., 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 - Twitchell [P.2006.20.10]
Tyler's market & fruit store, 1516 Market Street, elegant bananas & oranges 25, 30.
Title
Tyler's market & fruit store, 1516 Market Street, elegant bananas & oranges 25, 30
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., 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 - Tyler [1975.F.874]
Tyndale & Mitchell Co. have removed to their new store, No. 1217 Chestnut Street, where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers. China, glass and earthenware, of every description, at lowest practicable prices.
Title
Tyndale & Mitchell Co. have removed to their new store, No. 1217 Chestnut Street, where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers. China, glass and earthenware, of every description, at lowest practicable prices
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a girl standing on a large green leaf and holding on to the stems of yellow flowers to keep from falling to the ground. Tyndale & Mitchell Co. was the partnership between Harold Tyndale & E.P. Mitchell., 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 - Tyndale [1975.F.648]
[Unidentified trade cards]
Title
[Unidentified trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting scenes of Japanese life showing men and women attired in traditional garb; a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greeting with a vase of flowers and bamboo; a profile of a woman's face encircled by a flower border and a bird; a female figure attired in robes and a Roman helmet in the clouds holding a mirror showing a child's reflection; sailing vessels on the water; a horseshoe; and flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Bufford (Boston) and Continental Bank Note Co. (New York)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the gents' shoe department of an unidentified store; fancy furs and cloaks; porcelaines, bronzes, clocks and leather goods; and "all of the ordinary grades at the lowest prices"., Two prints contain calendars for 1880, one for 1879 and one print with sixth months of a calendar for an unidentified year 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 - Unidentified [1975.F.198; 1975.F.215; 1975.F.218; 1975.F.306; 1975.F.483; 1975.F.919; 1975.F.1033; 1975.F.1040; P.9111.12]
The Union jewelry store, No. 20 West Penn St., bet. 4th and 5th Sts., Reading, Pa.
Title
The Union jewelry store, No. 20 West Penn St., bet. 4th and 5th Sts., Reading, Pa Clocks, watches, & jewelry. Wholesale and retail. Dealers and peddlers supplied at low prices. Agency for fine gold chronometer, duplex and patent lever watches, by the most celebrated makers. Also, oval gilt frames, from 31 c. to $1.50 cent size suitable for the dollar size photographs. N.B. clocks, watches and jewelry properly repaired. Also, hair and other jewelry made to order. Engraving neatly executed. The patrons of the former occupant, and others, will still find some choice. Segars and tobacco
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., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Union [5786.F.9m]
The Union Piano Manufacturing Co., 1017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
Title
The Union Piano Manufacturing Co., 1017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a piano., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Union [5786.F.9r]
Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada.
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]
Super, Marshall & Co., Philadelphia. Great Britain
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]
[Die-cut textile label depicting the United States Capitol Building]
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]
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
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]
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.
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]
[Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards]
Title
[Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York)., One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c.", 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 - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]
Importers & dealers in tin plate, copper sheet, rod and hoop iron, metals, N. & G. Taylor Co. 301, 303 & 305 Branch St., between race and Vine Sts. Philadelphia.
Title
Importers & dealers in tin plate, copper sheet, rod and hoop iron, metals, N. & G. Taylor Co. 301, 303 & 305 Branch St., between race and Vine Sts. Philadelphia Wire, cast steel, emery, files, borax, &c. Established 1810
Description
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 - Taylor [P.9618]
[Mechanical calendar issued by New Jersey electrician Romaine Mace]
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]
Curwen Stoddart & Brother, 450, 452 and 454 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.
Title
Curwen Stoddart & Brother, 450, 452 and 454 N. Second Street, Philadelphia Table linens. Table napkins and doylies, bordered towels and towelings, plain towels and crashes, turkey red tabling, loom dice tabling, counterpanes, quilts, comfortables, and blankets, of all grades and sizes at low prices. For family use, hotel and boarding house keepers
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting cats standing in a basket with their front paws propped on the top rim. They meow and attempt to crawl out of the basket. Curwen Stoddart and Company was the partnership between Curwen, Joseph, and Curwen Stoddart, Jr., 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 - Stoddart [1975.F.192]
Stokes Brothers, lumber dealers, 30th Street below Chestnut, Philadelphia.
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]
Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, N.Y, solicitors of American and foreign patents and publishers of the "Scientific American."
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]
[Strawbridge & Clothier trade cards]
Title
[Strawbridge & Clothier trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for Strawbridge & Clothier's dry goods store at Eighth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict men riding in a horse-drawn carriage past a sign reading "The largest retail stock of dry goods. Strawbridge & Clothier, Eighth & Market Sts., Philada."; an old man seated with his cane watching a woman harvest wheat; a chef wearing an apron and chef's hat pulling on the neck of a duck; and a porter rushing off of a train to help a man carrying Strawbridge & Clothier packages. In 1861, Justus Strawbridge opened a dry goods store at the northwest corner of Market and Eighth streets. In 1868 another young Quaker, Isaac Clothier joined him and together they prospered selling good quality domestic and imported dry goods., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.816] copyrighted 1878 by Strawbridge & Clothier., One print [1975.F.806] contains advertising text printed on verso: Philadelphia, Dec. 1880. With the compliments of the season we present this little Calendar for the coming year. Respectfully, Strawbridge & Clothier. Eighth and Market Sts., 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 - Strawbridge [1975.F.763; 1975.F.806; 1975.F.816; 1975.F.851]
Strickland & Bro. booksellers & stationers, No. 529 S. Second Street, Philadelphia.
Title
Strickland & Bro. booksellers & stationers, No. 529 S. Second Street, Philadelphia New style Union paper and envelopes to match, wholesale & retail
Description
Illustrated trade cards depicting an American flag facing right. Strickland & Brother, the partnership between George and Stephen Strickland, operated from 529 South Second Street between 1860 and 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Strickland [5786.F.9q & 5786.F.005]
[The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Co.'s Sun Dial gas stove trade cards]
Title
[The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Co.'s Sun Dial gas stove trade cards]
Description
Illustrated trade cards depicting before and after scenarios entitled "Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove" and "After they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove". In the "before" scene, a disheleved female domestic worker, surrounded by debris, drops cinders and sets the stove on fire as a concerned and hesitant family enters the room. In the "after" scene, with the aid of a Sun Dial stove, the pleasant and well-groomed maid has already prepared breakfast and tidied the dining area as the happy family enters the room for breakfast. The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Company was founded by William Wallace Goodwin and his father Oliver W. Goodwin., Title supplied by cataloger., Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.791]: "Sure Sor! says Biddy "it's not my fault this breakfast's not ready; faith I used all the morning paper and a sup of kerosene too and bedad it smokes like a chimney yet. Indade Sor, you've frightened me so I've split all the cinders.", After they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.867]: Indade Mum, the breakfast will always be ready on time since you got the "Sun Dial," sure the work's so aisy now, I was thinking Mum I wouldn't object to a small reduction of my wages., Advertising text printed on versos promotes gas burning stoves and includes numbered lists of advantages over coal and "ordinary gas stoves"., One print [1975.F.791] contains the trademark 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 - Sun Dial [1975.F.791 & 1975.F.867]
Town & Brother, manufacturers and dealers leather belting & lace leather, rubber goods, belting, packing, hose, gaskets, tubing, door mats, &c. Rubber clothing, boots and shoes. Stationers and druggists sundries: erasive rubber, elastic bands, nursery she
Title
Town & Brother, manufacturers and dealers leather belting & lace leather, rubber goods, belting, packing, hose, gaskets, tubing, door mats, &c. Rubber clothing, boots and shoes. Stationers and druggists sundries: erasive rubber, elastic bands, nursery sheeting, rubber corks, syringes, atomizers, air goods, nipples, &c. 608 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description
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 - Town [P.2006.20.38]
E.D. Trymby, furniture, 1217 Market Street, Philadelphia.
Title
E.D. Trymby, furniture, 1217 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting chairs, tables, plant stands, stools and curtains, all products made by Enos D. Trymby at 1217 Market Street in Philadelphia., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Trymby's "high class furniture", including parlor, dining room and bedroom furniture., 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 - Trymby [P.9642.5]
[John P. Twaddell trade cards]
Title
[John P. Twaddell trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards for John P. Twaddell's fine shoe store at 1212 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a spray of flowers and children walking in a single file line with shoes on poles, one of them with a sign labeled "Solar Tip Brigade". One print [1975.F.841] contains the trademark of John Mundell & Co. printed on recto and verso and a vignette printed on verso showing a female cook dumping a large pot of gravy into a container with the description: "the cook is wasting her time, for the gravy runs out almost as fast as it runs in"., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.841] printed by Craig, Finley & Co., 1020 Arch Street, Phila., One print [1975.F.841] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Solar Tip Shoes as the shoes worn by one thousand boys at Girard College 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 - Twaddell [1975.F.841 & 1975.F.881]
Souvenir. Stockton Hotel. Chas. Duffy, manager. Sunday eve'ng concert, by Simon Hassler's orchestra, August First, 1880.
Title
Souvenir. Stockton Hotel. Chas. Duffy, manager. Sunday eve'ng concert, by Simon Hassler's orchestra, August First, 1880
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a bird perched on the branch of a flowering tree. The seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel, destroyed in the great fire of 1878, was rebuilt, and destroyed again by fire in 1889., Copyrighted 1878 by Wemple & Kronheim N.Y., Programme for the Sunday evening concert on August 1, 1880 by Simon Hassler's celebrated orchestra at the Stockton Hotel printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
c1878
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stockton [1975.F.790]
["It leads them all." The Sunday Item.]
Title
["It leads them all." The Sunday Item.]
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a man riding a horse. Holding a very large postcard, he winks at the viewer and points toward the "postal card" text. The Sunday Item was a Philadelphia newspaper that was active between 1847 and 1897., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso contains a vignette of a man pulling on the string of a doll. Text in quotes flanking the image includes "The string not broken." and "Jumping Jack Jones did it." Also includes the "Route of Athletic Parade"., 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 - Sunday [P.8666.3c]
French spy.
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]
[Sunshine Publishing Company, 423 Chestnut Street, basement Philadelphia Bank.]
Title
[Sunshine Publishing Company, 423 Chestnut Street, basement Philadelphia Bank.]
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and girl standing in their undergarments under a large umbrella. They stand on a rock in a pond with foliage and water lilies in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso provides bearer with a discount and lists various books and prices available by Sunshine Publishing Company., 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 - Sunshine [P.9749]
Mrs. Swasey, 340 N. Eighth St., Philada.
Title
Mrs. Swasey, 340 N. Eighth St., Philada Trimmings, notions, hosiery and gloves a specialty
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers. Trimmings store owned by Georgiana Swasey, wife of Captain W.P. Swasey., 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 - Swasey [P.9798.3]
Hurrah! for Thayer's Printing House, 805 Sansom Street, above 8th, Philada.
Title
Hurrah! for Thayer's Printing House, 805 Sansom Street, above 8th, Philada
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting patriotic imagery, including an eagle grasping an American shield and laurel wreath in its talons and group of men with their arms raised in celebration as one man holds a large American flag., Price lists printed on versos for various cards, books, circulars, tickets and other job printing items., 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 - Thayer's [1975.F.882 & 883]
A.W. Stevens & Sons, manufacturers & patentees, Auburn, New York. The new Stevens spring tooth harrow.
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]
[Thermaline, manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co., New York]
Title
[Thermaline, manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co., New York]
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers surrounded by a decorative border., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Thermaline as a remedy for chills and fever, fever and ague, all malarial diseases, liver complaint, dyspepsia, general debility, rheumatism, neuralgia, sick headache, colds, slight catarrh and other pulmonary diseases., 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 - Thermaline [1975.F.875]
Thitchener & Glastaeter, steam job printers, 14 & 16 Vesey St., New York.
Title
Thitchener & Glastaeter, steam job printers, 14 & 16 Vesey St., New York Job printing of every description. Invitations, programmes, for balls and parties. Fine color work a specialty. Wedding invitations, cards, monograms
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting the monogram of Thitchener & Glastaeter within gilt-lined borders., 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 - Thitchener [P.9111.10]
[Times Printing House trade cards]
Title
[Times Printing House trade cards]
Description
Series of trade cards for the Times Printing House, located at 610 Chestnut Street and later 725-727 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. One illustrated trade card depicts portraits of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, an eagle, and patriotic bunting., 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. 1876-1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Times [P.9111.13; P.9111.16; P.2006.20.67]
Espiritu santo. Triple extract. The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume of the age. Tisseau, distillateur-parfumeur, Philadelphia. Bookmark.
Title
Espiritu santo. Triple extract. The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume of the age. Tisseau, distillateur-parfumeur, Philadelphia. Bookmark
Description
Illustrated bookmark and trade card depicting a white flower on a branch with white buds and large green leaves. Includes ornate scroll work and filigree around the text., List entitled "The Principal Heathen Gods and Goddesses" 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 - Tisseau [1975.F.880]

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