Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Chr. Jud surrounded and embellished by flowering vines and cherubs., Manuscipt note on verso: M.H. Smith, 863 11th St., 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 - Jud [1975.F.456]
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]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting various flowers; bread shaped into kipful, pinafore, twist, keyser semmel, Vienna ring, long Vienna, and short Vienna shapes; platters of fish and lobster on serving carts; a man driving a horse-drawn carriage made entirely of bread; and nets and oars partially obscured by a small landscape vignette depicting a tall rock formation., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and McCalla & Stavely (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes G. Byron Morse as a "baker of genuine Vienna bread, rolls, &c." and his "dining and ice cream parlors, fine and fancy cake depot" for weddings and private and social parties at 1312 Chestnut Street and 912 Arch Street in Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[1876-ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Morse [1975.F.582; 1975.F.585 & 586; 1975.F.619; 1975.F.624; P.9777.1 & 2]
