Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Embossed in center Reimer 617 N. 2nd St. Philada. Fancy scroll work all around., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design in center surrounded by fancy scrolls and swirls. Same design on verso.
Creator
Reimer, Benjamin, 1826-1899, photographer
Date
ca. 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.23]
Illustrated trade card depicting a cowboy boot and a ladies ankle boot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Alan Smith., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Smith [P.9387.4]
Dyott & Sons are listed at this address in the 1860 Philadelphia directory; by 1861, the company is listed as Dyott & Co. at 232 North Second Street., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Frank Miller & Co.
Date
[1861?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Frank (2)5786.F.161e (McAllister)
A four-line poem at head of title: A Union of lakes and a Union of lands, A Union of states none can sever, A Union of hearts and a Union of hands, And the flag of our Union for ever., A four-line poem printed vertically, flanking the title: The flag of our country, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free & home of the brave. No pent up Utica contracts our powers, But the whole boundless continent is ours., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Gallagher, William J., shoemaker
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Gallagher (2)5786.F.168a (McAllister)
Illustrated trade card depicting two cobblers in a shop, one seated and working on a shoe, while the other man shows the sole of a boot to a well-dressed male customer. Patrick Cox moved his shoe business to Rochester, New York in 1871, which in 1876 became P. Cox & Bro. when his brother J.D. Cox became a partner. The style changed to P. Cox Shoe Manufacturing Co. in 1881., Distributor's stamp on recto: Nash?, 220 Sixth Avenue, cor. 15th Street, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Cox [1975.F.204]
Trade card promoting Albert & Bayley shoes and depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy pushing a wheelbarrow on a cobblestone street. The boy is barefoot and attired in a buttoned shirt with an open collar and the sleeves rolled up, striped shorts, and a hat with a long tassle. The wheelbarrow contains a giant-size pair of boots decorated with an American flag near the pull strap. Albert & Bayley had a shoe store at 449 Broad Steet, Newark, N.J. from 1883 to 1885., Title from item., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: Copyright by Henry Seifert A.D. 1883., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date
1883
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Albert & Bayley [P.2017.95.3]
Exhibit titles: Brandt, C., Bergen, Exhibit #50; Naess, H.S., Christiania, Exhibit #41, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1.
Norwegian sleigh and carriages; hides hanging on a wall behind. Also in the background is a display case with boots and shoes.