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- Title
- [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. E. Reynolds.
- Description
- Location: Trotter's Alley and South Second Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., creator
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W358.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W358 [P.2198]
- Title
- Great Central Depot, southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets
- Description
- Men looking in windows of shop with comments in speech balloons. William Brown, prop., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Business - Grand Central Depot [P.9178.16]
- Title
- [J.H.R. Richelderfer, manufacturer of gent's fine shirts & collars, 1032 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Exterior view a group of employees, male and female, posed in front of the store. Includes two large windows displays filled with ties, shirts, socks, and gaters. Signage advertises "gents' overgaiters and furnishing goods, celluloid & chrolithion water proof linen collar & cuff depot" and "manufacturers of gent's over gaiters, children's leggings.", Buff mount with rounded corners.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 5 x 7 - unidentified - business [P.9946]
- Title
- [Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, clothing warerooms, 41 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 37-43 North Third St., Unlettered proof., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W034.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W34 [P.2033]
- Title
- Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Philada. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30 S 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W206.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W206 [P.2142]
- Title
- [Conrad Brothers' trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Conrad Brothers' men's clothing store depicting sprigs of various flowers. Conrad Brothers was a partnership between J. Fletcher and Benson W. Conrad., Advertising text printed on rectos promotes the shop as a "celluloid collar and cuff agency" and as a place for "Christmas presents in men's furnishing goods"., 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 - Conrad [1975.F.157a; 1975.F.159; 1975.F.163; 1975.F.165; 1975.F.180; 1975.F.188; 1975.F.191; 1975.F.216]
- Title
- Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St & 28 South 6th Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, N.E. cor. 4th & Chestnut Sts.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W319.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W319 [P.2255]
- Title
- Bennett & Co. Tower Hall, clothing bazaar No. 182 Market St, between Fifth & Sixth. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Executed, by, W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: 518 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W023.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W23 [P.2016]
- Title
- Lippincott & Co. [clothing] south west corner of Fourth & Market St Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R.F. Reynolds, No. 78 Dock St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W219.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W219 [P.2136]
- Title
- [Bennett's Tower Hall] Front elevation. [graphic] / Sam'l Sloan, Archt.
- Description
- Location: 518 Market Street., Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 56, design XII for a mercantile building in the Norman style., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.
- Creator
- Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 architect., creator
- Date
- [1867]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W025.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W25 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F]
- Title
- The new Philadelphia clothing house. Mackey, Johnson, Turner & Co., 922 Chestnut Street One price
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl standing on large daffodil petals. The boy holds the girl's hands to help her down from a taller flower., 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 - Mackey [1975.F.710]
- 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]
- Title
- Anniversary greeting. Stern Brothers, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a landscape surrounded by a large pink rose, leaves and vines., Embossed., Manuscript note on verso: Wishing you many Happy Birthdays. I remain your daughter Mildred., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stern [P.2002.51.3]
- Title
- Continental Clothing Company, 1618 Market Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two sailboats on a body of water in the foreground and the cityscape of a city, most likely Venice, in the background., Price list printed on verso., 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 - Continental [1975.F.205]
- Title
- If you want a cheap suit of clothing go to Commercial Clothing House, 822 Market St., Phila. Don't forget 822 Market Street
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting three anthropomorphic figures, including two flowers attacking a butterfly with spears., Price list printed on verso for men's pants and working suits., 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 - Commercial [1975.F.189]
- Title
- J. Sandberg with J. Simon, dealer in ready-made clothing and gent's furnishing goods, no. 429 North Second Street, East side, Philadelphia Orders promptly attended to. Quick sales. Small profits
- Description
- Trade card containing a vignette showing a menagerie of men's clothing, including collars, a cravat and bow tie, vest, a shoe, plaid trousers, and a coat. Imagery also includes a scissor. Sandberg is listed in city directories as a peddler 1862-1863., Scribbles 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
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.55]
- Title
- Wm. Menke & Bro. Dress trimmings. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub wearing only a sash kneeling under a large folded paper structure., Advertising text printed on verso: Wm. Menke & Bro., wholesale and retail dealers in ladies' dress trimmings, Berlin zephyrs, embroideries, laces, French corsets, full line of gloves, etc. No. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Fringes, buttons, &c., made to order. Largest assortment in the city., 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 - Menke [1975.F.625]
- Title
- Compliments of the West End Clothing House, 1634 Market Street, Philadelphia. J. Kuh; prop'r
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a boy in a sailor's outfit and straw hat with his pet dog and a girl wearing a purple flower hat holding a doll in her arms., Price lists printed on versos for suits sold by the West End Clothing House, No. 1634 Market Street, Philadelphia., 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 - West End [1975.F.978 & 1975.F.981]
- Title
- [Wm. T. Hopkins trade card]
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub holding a rifle with a helmet propped on the barrel., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the sale of Wm. T. Hopkins' hoop skirts, bustles, and corsets from his 133 North Eighth Street establishment 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 - Hopkins [P.9685.1]
- Title
- J. Holly, fine clothing, ready-made and to order, 1312 South St., Phila We defy competition
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting flowers and other imagery wrapped around a business card for James Holly's tailor shop and clothing store in Philadelphia, including a boy with a fishing rod, a butterfly and a bee., 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 - Holly [5786.F.9j]
- Title
- Conway, gent's furnisher, 1602 South Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a man wearing a conductor's cap asleep on a train with his mouth open and his head in his left hand. A suitcase with the name of the business superimposed onto the side sits on the floor next to him., 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 - Conway [P.9651.5]
- Title
- Isaac Casseres, manufacturer of suits and cloaks, and dealer in furs, N.W. cor. Eighth & Race Sts., Phila
- Description
- Illustrated stock trade card depicting a business card for Isaac Cassere's suit, cloak, and fur business inset into a bunch 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 - Casseres [1975.F.119]
- Title
- What's the matter with that ere dog?
- Description
- Illustrated stock trade card depicts a bear with a rifle behind a man that sits on the ground with his legs spread out before him. With a fork in his right hand and a meal in front of him, the man wonders why his dog runs away., Copyrighted Bufford, Boston., Advertising text printed on recto for Atlantic Clothing House, No. 204 North Second Street, Philadelphia, two doors above Race. Morris Salinger, proprietor., Manuscript note on verso: Chester., 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 - Atlantic [P.9577.17]
- Title
- [A. & J. B. Bartholomew trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the flags of France, Germany, Norway, Russia, and Sweden., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints contain advertising text on versos for A. & J. B. Bartholomew's children's clothing store at 23 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Three prints [1975.F.78; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.117] include text that advertises "kid gloves, parasols, hosiery, underwear, neckwear, &c." and two prints [1975.F.106 and 1975.F.114] serve as admission tickets to the 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 - Bartholomew [1975.F.78; 1975.F.106; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.114; 1975.F.117]
- Title
- Philadelphia, north from State House
- Description
- Panoramic view showing several city blocks north from the State House (520 Chestnut Street). Includes: Harris and Newhall, paper manufacturers (515 Minor); Barnes, Bro. & Herron, hat store, and M.S. Shapleigh & Co., dry goods store (503 Market); Robert Levick, boots and shoes (525 Market); E.R. Taggert & Co., hosiery (515 Market); and in the far left background, Jessup & Moore, paper warehouse (27 N. 6th). Also shows rooftop decks with drying laundry., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Mount discolored., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1869
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Views [1322.F.4d]
- Title
- Philadelphia, north from State House
- Description
- Panoramic view showing several city blocks north from the State House (520 Chestnut Street). Includes: Harris and Newhall, paper manufacturers (515 Minor); Barnes, Bro. & Herron, hat store, and M.S. Shapleigh & Co., dry goods store (503 Market); Robert Levick, boots and shoes (525 Market); E.R. Taggert & Co., hosiery (515 Market); and in the far left background, Jessup & Moore, paper warehouse (27 N. 6th). Also shows rooftop decks with drying laundry., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Mount discolored., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1869
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Views [1322.F.4d]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut]
- Description
- Rooftop view looking east from Odiorne's Studio at 920 Chestnut showing the 800 and 900 blocks, north side, of the commercial street. Businesses include a boys clothing store and the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr,.(823-835 Chestnut). Includes partial view of the south side of the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St. E. from 9th., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Odiorne operated from Philadelphia photographer Isaac Rehn's Gallery at 920 Chestnut Street between 1859 and 1860.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27e]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut]
- Description
- Rooftop view looking east from Odiorne's Studio at 920 Chestnut showing the 800 and 900 blocks, north side, of the commercial street. Businesses include a boys clothing store and the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr,.(823-835 Chestnut). Includes partial view of the south side of the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St. E. from 9th., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Odiorne operated from Philadelphia photographer Isaac Rehn's Gallery at 920 Chestnut Street between 1859 and 1860.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27e]
- Title
- [Bennet's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar, 518]
- Description
- Quirky advertisement showing heavy street traffic in front of the clothing store, designed as a medieval tower, at 518 Market Street. Patrons and pedestrians gather near the entrance of the store across from a saddled horse and a dray loaded with crates parked in front of the building. Other street traffic includes a stopped "Hestonville, Market Street, Cambridge Ferry" omnibus from which a lady departs from the rear while a chariot-like horse-drawn vehicle advertising "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar Market Street" passes her. The unique vehicle is followed by an ornately painted "West Philadelphia" street car crowded with passengers, including men seated on the roof beside the driver. Also shows neighboring buildings. Joseph M. Bennett opened his clothier establishment in 1849, which he named Tower Hall in 1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.393/2, Trimmed. Varnished.
- Date
- [ca. 1859]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.393/2
- Title
- 1022 Chestnut Street
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the five story commercial front of 1022 Chestnut Street, occupied by Alton's pictures, mirrors & frames. Alton's is flanked by Eastman Kodak Stores at 1020 Chestnut Street and Klein's Furriers at 1024 Chestnut Street. 1022 Chestnut Street was altered in 1899 after designs by Addison Hutton., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from manuscript note on recto., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.28]
- 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]
- Title
- Rapson's trimmings and zephyrs, 132 N. Eighth Street, corner of Cherry St
- Description
- Illustrated trade card die-cut and shaped into a bound book with an illustration on the cover depicting a bucolic scene of a man leading animals to a tree-lined stream. A man fishes in the stream in the distance and cattle approach the water on the opposite bank., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- c1883
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rapson's [P.9728.6]
- Title
- [Wanamaker & Brown trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting head portraits of men, women, and putti with bows and arrows flanking scrolls inscribed with titles and advertising text. Other imagery includes birds, butterflies, flowers and a four horse chariot. John Wanamaker and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown opened their clothing and dry goods store, Oak Hall, at Sixth and Market Streets in 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.942, 964 & 965] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos. One print [1975.F.948] provides historical information about Roman chariot races, which Wanamaker & Brown used as a symbol of their business. The other [1975.F.995] promotes mens' and boys' clothing and gentlemen's, youths' and boys' furnishing goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wanamaker & Brown [1975.F.942; 1975.F.948; 1975.F.964 & 965; 1975.F.995]
- Title
- [John Wanamaker & Co. unidentified location trade cards]
- Description
- Series of three illustrated trade cards "compliments of John Wanamaker & Co." addressed "to the little folks" depicting pairs of well-dressed boys., Series of seventeen illustrated trade cards depicting flags facing right of various countries, including Liberia, France, Egypt, Paraguay, Great Britain, Turkey, Ecuador, Denmark, Poland, Bolivia, Portugal, Russia, Argentine Republic, Switzerland, Chili [sic], Peru, and Norway., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.909, 923 & 938] printed by Chas. Shields' Sons, 20 & 22 Gold St., N.Y., 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 - John Wanamaker & Co. [1975.F.909; 1975.F.911-915; 1975.F.923; 1975.F.927-938; 1975.F.996]
- Title
- John Mustin, Jr., S.E. cor. Arch & Seventh, Philad'a. Military yarns
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting patriotic imagery, including a sailor holding a sextant on the deck of a ship surrounded by an American flag, American shield, an eagle, a pile of cannonballs, and an anchor., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mustin [(2)5786.F.170b]
- Title
- Reed's, for clothing, furnishings, hats, shoes, 918-920-922 Chestnut St., Philadelphia Best quality, lowest prices
- Description
- Trade card for Jacob Reed's Sons and depicting African American children, portrayed in racist caricature, sledding. Shows ten African American children, attired in short-sleeved pajamas, in a toboggan sledding down a snow-covered slope. One child plays a horn. The child at the back holds on with their leg outside the toboggan. White spectators watch from the side of the incline, and other toboggans are seen in the distance at the top of the slope. Jacob Reeds Sons was established in 1825 by Jacob Reed and operated as a premier men's clothing store until 1983. The business, assumed by Reed's sons in 1877, relocated to 920-22 Chestnut Street by 1883. By the early twentieth century, the firm sold men's and young men's clothing, as well as specialty, chauffeur’s, military, and uniform clothing., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1887 by The Bufford's Sons Lith. Co., Printed lower right corner: 794., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Duplicate image of: trade cards - P [113418.O], Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1887
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - R [P.2011.42.1]
- Title
- Fine oysters From life, Phila
- Description
- Plate from children's moral instruction book showing two shabby oyster hucksters as they shout, "Here they go! Oys-te-ers! Prime fat Oys-te-ers!" and walk in the street beside a tattered wagon pulled by a skinny horse. Also includes a corner clothing store, and a dog following the hucksters in the street., Date supplied by cataloger., Published as illustration on page 17 in City Sights for Country Eyes ([Philadelphia]: American Sunday School Union, [1856])., Accompanied by text titled "Prime oysters" moralizing against taking "the wrong road" by hanging out in taverns and stables and not getting an education. Those who do end up sellng oysters., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 249, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8343.17, Free Library of Philadelphia: \\RBD\\ASSU\\V\\C498S\\FACSIM.\\
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8343.17
- Title
- [Brownings trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Brownings fine clothing and gent's furnishing store in the Girard House at Ninth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict ornate, gilt cards with decorative text and borders; flowers; birds; a horse-drawn carriage; a butterfly; an eagle; a hunting scene; a cabin; and a buffet of sweets, including fruit and cakes., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include the New York firm Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and the Boston firm L. Prang & Co., One print [P.9306.3] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston, U.S.A., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos. One print [1975.F.62] contains "Directions for Self-Measurement" on verso with front and back views of a man attired in a coat. Another print [1975.F.49] contains printed text on verso that attests to the quality of Brownings clothing., Two prints [1975.F.113 and 116] die cut and shaped into ovals., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9306.3] gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
- Date
- [c1878-[ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brownings [1975.F.49; 1975.F.62; 1975.F.113; 1975.F.116; P.9306.3]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Tenth to [Ninth], south side
- Description
- View from above Tenth Street, looking east, showing the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: J.G. Maxwell, trimmings store and factory (1032 Chestnut); Wilson and Stellwagon, jewelers (1028 Chestnut), and a children's clothing store. Crates of trash rest on the corner near a lamppost and a group of conversing men. Also includes a horse-drawn carriage standing idle in the street. Trimmings store contains a large advertisement on the side of its building., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Green mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- ca. 1869
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.29a]
- Title
- [Little Dock and Spruce streets, at Second Street]
- Description
- View showing the businesses at 303 South Second Street at the intersection of Second and Little Dock (i.e., Mattis) streets. Shows the ramshackle building tenanted by J.T. Wells, clothier; Jacob Reed, clothing rooms; and J. & R. Hattuck, locksmiths and bell hangers. Includes two gentlemen in top hats conversing on the Little Dock Street side of the building; a freight car and sign post for a hotel in the right background; and surrounding businesses., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39., Inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39: 23., Manuscript note on recto of (7)1322.F.55e: S.e. cor 2nd & Spruce., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image (7)1322.F.39 reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #64.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- March 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.39d & 55e]
- Title
- [Old London Coffee House, Front and Market streets, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View showing the former coffee house and merchants' exchange. Shows building tenanted by Ulrich & Brother's Tobacco & Segar Store (14 Market, i.e. 100 Market). Also shows a partial view of the adjacent men's and boy's clothing store operated by Umberger & Co. (16 Market). Includes a female peddler with her baskets of goods at the corner; store merchandise on display; several handcarts resting idle on Front Street; tobacco store employees standing in the doorway; and a conestoga wagon parked in front of the clothing store. Originally built in 1702, the former coffee house was razed circa 1883 by the Ulrich brothers, whose family purchased the building in 1813., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Title supplied by cataloguer., *McClees 1853-1., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
- Creator
- McClees & Germon, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1854
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.16]
- Title
- Minstrels! Branch, 1602 South St
- Description
- Racist trade card illustration depicting a large troupe of African American minstrels on a stage. Five of the men in the front row are seated in white chairs and a man in the center stands on his right leg with his arms wide. In the background are several palm trees. Visible in the center of the image is an ovular gold pendant with a caricatured portrait of a smiling African American man depicted with exaggerated features. He is attired in a white collared shirt, a red checkered necktie, and a brown jacket. The minstrel troupe is attired in white pants, red jackets, and white shoes. Some men hold red and white hats in their hands. The trade card is likely advertising Phillip Conway's business, Conway Gent's Furnisher, a custom clothing shop., Title from item., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Minstrels [P.2017.95.131]
- Title
- From the Paris mantilla cloak and fur emporium. 920 Chestnut Street, Philada J. W. Proctor & Co
- Description
- Advertisement label showing an exterior view of the clothing store. Several cloaks are displayed in the storefront windows. A female clerk helps a customer at the entrance. Pedestrian traffic, predominately women wearing cloaks, pass on the sidewalk. Proctor relocated his store from 708 to 902 Chestnut Street in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 287, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7, LCP holds engraved copy of advertisement. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses (7)1322.F.453i].
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7
- Title
- Independence Square recruiting camps. [graphic]. James Queen del.
- Description
- Printed on recto: Childrens Central Clothing Emporium. M. Shoemaker No. 2 North Eighth Street Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Tradecard depicting well-dressed children on the central promenade of Independence Square when used as Camp Independence, Civil War recruitment camp, in September and October 1862. Tents manned by soldiers line the promenade and the children who carry drums, flags, and a hoop, walk between a group of men and a mother and son. Mary Shoemaker operated from 2 North Eighth Street circa 1862-circa 1864.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1862.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W183.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W183 [(2)5786.F.138b]
- Title
- Independence Square recruiting camps. [graphic]. James Queen del.
- Description
- Printed on recto: Childrens Central Clothing Emporium. M. Shoemaker No. 2 North Eighth Street Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Trade card depicting well-dressed children on the central promenade of Independence Square when used as Camp Independence, Civil War recruitment camp, in September and October 1862. Tents manned by soldiers line the promenade and the children who carry drums, flags, and a hoop, walk between a group of men and a mother and son. Mary Shoemaker operated from 2 North Eighth Street circa 1862-circa 1864.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1862.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W183.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W183 [(2)5786.F.138b]
- Title
- 1010 Chestnut St. front
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting an ornate four story commercial front at 1010 Chestnut Street, occupied by Alexander's clothing shop on the ground level, Sun Beam Beauty Shops on the second floor and Merin Studios on the third floor. Charles David's clothing store occupies the ground floor of 1008 Chestnut Street and Fur Outlet Co., furriers, occupies the ground floor of the building at 1012 Chestnut Street. The property at 1010 Chestnut Street was altered in 1891 for Queen & Co. after designs by the architectural firm of Baily & Truscott. David B. Bassett altered the basement for Shaw Walker in 1919., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.27]
- Title
- 1326-28 Chestnut St
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting the Hale Building at the southwest corner of Chestnut and Juniper Streets, on the former site of Dr. John Rea Barton's residence. Built in 1887 for Keystone National Bank after designs by Willis Gaylord Hale and altered by him from 1890 to 1892. Lousols' women's clothing store occupies the art deco addition at the street level, next to Stinson Drugs at 1332 Chestnut Street. The Presbyterian Board of Education Building (1334-36) and a partial view of the Real Estate Title & Trust Co. Building (1340-50) are visible in the background., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from manuscript note on recto., Also known as the Lucas Building and the Penfield Building, for the Penfield Theatre Ticket Co., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.30]
- Title
- 7201-03-05-07 Frankford Ave
- Description
- Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting automobiles parked in front of a one story strip of shops along Frankford Avenue. Includes Sheppard's Cancellation Shoes (7201); Morgenstern appliances (7203), Bradley's Clothes (7205) and Northeast National Bank (7207)., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company., Title from typed note on recto., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
- Creator
- Parker & Mullikin, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.37]
- Title
- High art and elegant clothing. Merchant tailor misfits, 400 South Eighth St., first door bel. Pine. Private house. Please ring the bell
- Description
- Series of racist trade cards promoting a Philadelphia clothing store and depicting African American women. An African American woman, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a striped head kerchief, a checked shawl, and a dress with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, cradles her head in her hands as she leans on the windowsill of an open window and looks at the viewer. Other card depicts an African American woman nanny, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a head kerchief, a striped dress with the sleeves rolled to her elbows, and a checked apron, who smiles and stands behind a picket fence holding a white infant at her side., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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 - Merchant [1975.F.583 & 584]
- Title
- [John Mustin trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a woman picking flowers; a man hanging a cloth with the title inscribed on it; a man holding an umbrella for a lady in the rain; a crane standing near flowers on the edge of a lake; ornate Japanese paddle fans; and a butterfly perched on flower stems., One print [1975.F.591] copyrighted 1881 by Thomas W. Price., Advertising text printed on versos: Established 1815. Mustin's original trimming store, the largest [Philadelphia,] wholesale hosiery, glove, trimming, zephyr worsted, knitting yarn, and thread & needle establishment, No. 515 Arch Street, and No. 510 Cherry Street, where storekeepers only, are supplied. Retail store, 1226 Chestnut Street., 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 - Mustin [1975.F.591; 1975.F.609; 1975.F.618; 1975.F.635; 1975.F.644-646]