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Title: Shipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master under God for this present voyage [blank] and now riding at anchor in the [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbred [sic] as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to [blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
Description: A bill of lading form., Ornamental initial letter S shows a ship under full sail; the woodcut initial is unsigned., Printed area measures 9.3 x 19.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Jonathan Belcher, shipping sugar, molasses, rum, 12 oak tables, 5 dozens chairs, and 6 dozen pails from Boston to "Nansymum in Virginia or So. Carolina" (i.e. Nansemond, Va.), aboard the ship Dove, William Winter, master; dated Boston, Sept. 12, 1723, and signed by Winter., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Date: [not after 1723]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1723 Shipped 16872.Q (Zinman)

Title: Signing of the Declaration of Independence postcards
Description: Depicts copies of the painting created by John Trumbull circa 1819, showing members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the East Room of Independence Hall signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin stand before John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1941-1943
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Historic events - [P.9049.18 - 19]

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

Title: [Solicitations to Pancoast F. Hoy, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.]
Description: Includes envelopes, a letter of solicitation, and an illustrated flier. Advertising firms include R. M. Connable & Co., "Sole Manufacturers of the "Hercules" Overalls, Coats and Shirts (Dayton, Ohio) and David Rupp, Proprietor of York Steam Soap Works (York, Pa.). Connable type-written solicitation promotes "Hercules" overalls and pants. Rupp flier promotes two "schemes," including when "You Buy 5 Boxes of Laundry Soap for $20.00 and get a Ladies Gold Watch Free" and "5 Boxes of our Well Known Family Favorite Soap at $3.60 Per Box (100--12 oz. Cakes) and one Show Case Free as per cut." Flier also includes vignettes showing a gold watch with ornamented case, "German Silver Case," "Show Case and Desk Combined," and a long German silver case., Title supplied by cataloger., Date range inferred from date on correspondence and stamps., Envelopes contain cancelled one-cent stamps printed in blue and depicting a profile portrait of Benjamin Franklin., 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., Pancoast Hoy, was proprietor of a premier dry goods store in Schuylkill Haven from circa 1875 to the early 20th century. He was a prolific and innovative advertiser of his store merchandise.
Date: [1890-ca. 1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.87 & 87a; P.2011.10.88 & 88a]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
Description: Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]

Title: Springfield Church School Certificate of scholarship of [blank] for the term ending March 22nd, 1865. Orthography, [blank] Reading, [blank] ... Days absent, [blank] Days present, [blank]
Description: A report card., Printed area measures 9.6 x 16.6 cm., Library Company copy completed for Milton Hess, whose academic grade point average was 3.9, who was present for 98 days out of 100, and who earned a 5 for conduct., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Springfield Church School (Springfield, Bucks County, Pa.)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Sprin 110648.D (Doret)

Title: St. Clement's Church postcards
Description: Contains images of church built 1855-1859 by John Notman. Includes an exterior view and an interior view of the sanctuary. Horace Wells Sellers built the crypt chapel beneath the apse in 1898 and enlarged the sanctuary in 1908., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Divided backs., Accession numbers: P.9048.264 and P.9049.92., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: St. David's P.E. Church, Manayunk, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of church built in 1881 at the corner of Dupont and St. David's Streets in Manayunk., Original church was built in 1835 and remodeled in 1857. On December 23, 1879 the original church was destroyed by a fire., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.42]

Title: St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church postcards
Description: Exterior view of front facade of church built 1763-1812 after designs by master builder Robert Smith. Includes an interior view of the nave and sanctuary. First conference of American Methodists held here in 1773., Undivided backs., Accession numbers: P.9048.245 and P.9050.4., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: St. James, 21st and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of church and bell tower. Demolished circa 1947., Numbered 25427 on verso., Divided back. Post marked 1910., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.45]

Title: St. James Church of Kingsessing postcards
Description: Exterior views of ivy-covered facade of church built in 1762 as a Swedish Lutheran church after designs by architect Thomas Webb Richards. It became an Episcopal church in 1810., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Divided backs., Accession numbers: P.9048.91 and P.9049.90., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: St. James Episcopal Church postcards
Description: Contains views of the church at the northeast corner of 52nd and Kershaw Streets including an exterior view of the church looking northeast and an interior view of the sanctuary., Accession numbers: P.9050.29 and P.9050.39., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: The St. James, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of The St. James Hotel built circa 1904 after designs by Horace Trumbauer., Numbered M18098 on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Hotels - [P.9490.13]

Title: St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill postcards
Description: Contains views of church built in 1846 after designs by John E. Carver and George Gordon Place. Includes exterior views of the church and adjoining burial ground, along with interior views of the nave and sanctuary., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Accession numbers: P.9050.50, P.9050.59 and P.9050.79 - 80., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1905-1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]

Title: St. Johns Church, Phila., Pa. The first English Lutheran Church in the world
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Evangelical Lutheran Church built 1928-1929 after designs by Charles Augustus Ziegler., Publisher's monogram on verso., Also identified as Old St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9512.11]

Title: St. John's R.C. Church, Manayunk, Philadelphia
Description: Interior view of the nave and sanctuary. Church built in 1894 after designs by Charles Patrick Keely at the corner of Rector and Cresson Streets in Manayunk., Also known as St. John the Baptist Church., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.38]

Title: Standard Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a vignette showing a claw foot tub on a tile floor. The firm etablished in 1875 by James Arrott and Francis Torrance, and John fleming consolidated into Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company in 1899., Date inferred from ink-stamp postmark: Allegheny June 19, [18]95, 6 30 PM., Addressed to J.D. Johnson Co., Phila, Pa., Contains an oval two-cent stamp printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington., Ink-stamp postmark on verso: Recevied Philadelphia June 30, 1895 6 30 A[M]., 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. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.90]

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

Title: The studio, -- salesroom
Description: Advertising postcard showing an interior view of the salesroom of William Rau's photographic studio at 238-244 South Camac Street. Salesroom features framed photographs showing a variety of Rau's work including two views from his Pennsylvania Railroad commission "On the Conemaugh" and "Washington's Crossing, above Trenton" ; a large cabinet probably containing stereoviews; two card files; and other office furniture. Two albums, one containing photographs of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, are displayed on the cabinet top. Verso contains advertising text describing types of work undertaken by the studio including residential, institutional and commercial views; portraits; printing, copying and enlargements; and color photography "direct from Nature." Also promotes the sale of lantern slide views., Photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Negative number: 28718., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Businesses - Rau [P.9981.6]

Title: Sunday Grit
Description: Die-cut trade card depicting a newsboy holding a Sunday Morning, December 6, 1885 edition of the family newspaper published in Williamsport, Pa. Central illustration depicts bust portraits of newspaper founder Dietrick Lamade and editor George W. Rianhard. Newsboy wears winter attire, including a scarf, and is covered with snow. Grit was founded in 1882 as the Saturday edition of the "Daily Sun and Banner" before the name was bought by Dietrick Lamade circa 1885., Marks in pencil on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.183]

Title: Sunday school hymns. To be sung by the children at the grand gathering, June 13th, 1868
Description: Caption title., Without music., Hymns printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 31.0 x 14.2 cm., Contents: The happy land -- The Sunday school army -- Beautiful river -- Dismission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1868 Sunday 17239.Q (Roughwood)

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

Title: Surveyor
Description: Cigar box label showing George Washington as a surveyor. Washington, carrying a transit over his shoulder, leads his horse from Mount Vernon., Printed below image: Title and Design Registered., Attributed to American Lithographic Company from proof print auctioned in 2008., 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.2011.10.105]

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

Title: Teachers' local institute
Description: Signed: J. O. Knauss, County Superintendent and Chairman Ex. Committee., Printed area measures: 15.8 x 11.1 cm., Held at Seiberlingsville Church, Weissenberg Township, Lehigh County, on Saturday December 22nd, 1877., "Members will be at liberty to express their views in either the English or the German language.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1877.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1877 Teachers' 106024.D (Roughwod)

Title: [Textile label depicting a dog spotting two ducks among tall grasses]
Description: Embossed and inscribed in border: No. 24 Yds., Die-cut., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.114]

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

Title: This certifies that [blank], the [blank] of [blank] and his wife [blank], as born [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank], and that [blank] was baptized on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank]
Description: A baptismal certificate., Copyright 1873 by Crider & Bro., "Lith. by A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 32.0 x 24.0 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Marranda, daughter of Davilla and Amilia Fiand Peifer, borner April 6, 1875, and baptised June 27, 1875 by Preacher Wolf, with the parents as sponsors; the blanks are incorrectly used, and there are errors in spelling and grammar., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1873 This 14351.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Thomas Borbidge, forwarding and commission merchant, no. 278 Market Street
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia merchant containing a view showing a locomotive hauling canal boats past two buildings in a scenic region., Completed in manuscript for C. Schrack for shipping 2 Kegs and 1 Box to Helfneck & Pepper, Chambersburg, dated December 6, 1849 and signed W. B. Smith., 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: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.123]

Title: Three Black crows
Description: Racist, satiric postcard depicting three young African American boys perched from oldest to youngest on a branch as "Black crows." The boys are attired in loin clothes. The middle child is crying with his hands over his eyes and falling off the branch. In the left, the oldest boy attempts to hold him up. The youngest, a baby, pats the middle child's shoulder with his right hand., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted, 1899., Accessioned 1999., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Genre [P.9725.2]

Title: "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," was the cry they raised in forty two, when barrels were set up all over the land by the Enterprise Barrel Jack, Truck and Stand
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Barrel Jack, Truck and Stand." Contains a scene showing the interior of a tavern in which the bar keep and customers raise pints of cider as a man delivers a barrel of it on an Enterprise barrel jack, truck and stand (i.e., dollie). A "Tippecanoe & Tyler Too" banner is displayed and bottles of liquor line the wall behind the bar. Another patron kneels in front of the bar and funnels cider from a barrel tipped on its side on a second dollie. Also contains a view of the Transportation Building designed by Adler & Sullivan. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Barrel Jack, Truck and Stan. Price, $6.00. All Grocers, Druggists and Dealers in Oils or any kind of Liquids, where heavy barrels are placed on draught, are aware of the hard labor and time spent in handling and blocking them up. Our Barrel Jack, Truck and Stand saves time, and the labor is much lessened. Its simplicity of construction and rapidity of execution can be appreciated at a glance. One man can operate it easily and do in a few seconds what usually occupies two men from twenty to thirty minutes., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a barrel loaded onto a barrel jack, truck and stand. Hands are visible on the handles and a foot on the release., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.54 & 73]

Title: To Fenstermacher Brothers, Dr. Shipping and commission merchants, no. 5 Walnut Street, above Delaware Avenue, oysters, fruits, poultry, &c
Description: Billhead containing a vignette view showing a shipping dock. Stevedores load and unload horse-drawn wagons parked near a wharf. Ships are visible in the background and rows of barrels and baskets lay on the ground in the foreground., Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. F. [Kunk?] on July 19, 1873 for "1 Bbl Potatoes" $5.75; "Cartage" $.10: 5.85., Manuscript note on recto: Rec Payment Fensmach [illegible] Aug 9/73, Printed below image: Copyright Secured, Manuscript note on verso: Fenstermach & Bro $5.85., Calculation in pencil inscribed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.130]

Title: To J. Mullin, dr. Coupes and carriages to hire. Stable, 1522 Rundle Street Office, 217 South Sixteenth Street
Description: Billhead for the Philadelphia livery operated by James Mullin containing a vignette showing a manned horse-drawn coach in motion., Completed in manuscript to Mr. [ ]herine on May 1, 1891 for "[illegible] 2 to coupe @ [illegible]": 2.00, Manuscript note on recto: Recd Payment J. Mullin., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.141]

Title: To John Hartman, dr. East End Steam Biscuit Work, No. 412 South Wharves, and 413 Penn St. Plain & fancy biscuit & crackers Established 1826
Description: Billhead containing two vignettes. Vignette in left shows "Blue Points. Cracker in Shape of an Oyster Patented." Image also contains text dating the patent and trademark to 1883 and 1884. Vignette in right shows a sailing ship at sea captioned "Pilot, Ship and Navy Bread A Specialty.", Completed in manuscript to Mr. J. B. Bechtel, Allentown L.V.R.R. on October 4, 1886 for "1 Bbl Acme Cr 70#" @ $.06, $4.20; "12 Tin Trunks Extra La" 56 1/2# @ $.095, $5.37; "12 Glass Front & Extra Asst 72 1/2#" @ 13, $9.42; "2 Crates of Tin Trunks" @ 3.75, $7.50; "2 " " Glass Fronts" @ 3.50, $7.00: $33.49., Manuscript note on recto: Cans & cases off $14.50 to be returned: $18.99. Recd Payment J. Hartman Per M 14.50, Stamped on recto: Terms - 30 Days, Subject to Sight Draft Without Notice. One Per Cent. Discount if Paid Within 10 Days., Printed on recto: No Boxes Received unless Freight Prepaid. All Claims To Be Made in Five Days. Highest Premium Awarded By United States Centennial Commission For Extent Of Variety and Superior Manufacture of Biscuits. Long Preserved Excellence., Accompanied by corresponding envelope illustrated with "Cracker in Shape of An Oyster Patented." Illustration duplicates illustration on billhead. Envelope contains postmarks and two-cent stamp depicting George Washington. [P.2011.10.136a], 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. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.136 & 136a]

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

Title: To Read & Sutters, dr. Chair manufacturers, S.W. cor. Front & Green Streets, No. 536 North Front St., ware room second story
Description: Billhead containing a vignette showing a menagerie of furniture, including chairs, a sofa, and ottoman surrounded by an ornamental border and captioned "Old Chairs Re-Caned and Varnished.", Title annotated: Read [crossed out]; No. 536 North Front St. [crossed out]., Year altered in pencil from 186_ to 187_., Completed in manuscript to Mr. Smith & Borden on November 8, 1870 for "1 doz 1/2 of bell 17.00 a doz, 8.50, 25.50: $15.00 on a count., Manuscript note on recto: Received Payment. Recvd payment 10.00. Mr. Sutter., Contains punched hole in center., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.144]

Title: To the memory of James Gifford who was killed by the bursting of a cannon on the 24th, day of December 1832, aged 20 years 9 months and 10 days at Tuckahoe, New Jersey
Description: Poem in ten four-line verses, with grape cluster border and mourning vignette., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1832 To the 15136.Q (Roughwood)

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