Illustrated trade card depicting three scenes surrounded by flower garlands and a banner inscribed "National College of Commerce". A central vignette shows an exterior view of the Beneficial Saving Fund Building (built 1887 after designs by Edwin Forrest Durang) at 1200-1202 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. The exterior view of the building housing the college is flanked on the left by a scene showing various vessels on the water, including two men in a small rowboat in the foreground and on the right by a scene depicting a locomotive stalled at a railroad station showing a cityscape in the background., Advertising text printed on verso discusses the benefits of a business education., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1887]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - National [P.9955]
