Illustrated trade card depicting a small vignette of a man loading a horse-drawn delivery cart., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McClees' [P.2006.20.65]
Illustrated trade card depicting hauling and hoisting equipment in a wagon hitched to a horse. Image surrounded by decorative border including chain links., 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 - Henderson [P.2006.20.59]
Illustrated trade card depicting a man driving a large horse-drawn cart loaded with trunks and luggage., Advertising text printed on verso: Union Transfer Company. Incorporated in 1867. Baggage express, general railroad ticket agents. Railroad tickets sold and baggage checked from hotels and residences to destination. Baggage, packages, &c., transferred to and from all parts of the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, or forwarded by express and freight lines to all parts of the United States. General office: 838 Chestnut Street., Philadelphia, Pa. Lists branch offices in two columns., 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 - Union [1975.F.885]
Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an eye depicts a traveling R. Newell & Son horse-drawn photographic wagon. The scene is bordered by a sun, filigree, and a camera on a tripod. R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell., 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 - Newell [P.9803.1]
Illustrated trade cards depicting hauling and hoisting equipment in a wagon hitched to a horse., 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 - Schafer [P.2006.20.57 & 58]
Illustrated trade card depicting a couple riding in a cart drawn by a goat. Includes a dog running along side the goat, a peacock blocking the goat's path in the foreground, and a carousel in the distant background., Copyright 1882, Graf Bros., Advertising text printed on verso: For your common sense shoes go to the common sense shoemaker. 122 North Eighth St., near Arch. For your children's shoes, go to the common sense shoemaker., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Graf Brothers, the lithograph firm operated by German brothers Julius F. (b. 1846) and Charles L. Graf (1849-1900) in Philadelphia 1873-1970s, produced advertisements, trade cards, labels and maps.
Date
c1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Common [1975.F.231]