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- Title
- Present in many cans of Miles' Baking Powder due bills for handsome book and 2 paintings, in some cans due bill for a watch
- Description
- Illustrated trade card for Miles' Baking Powder Co. at 246 and 248 North Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia depicting a well-dressed couple standing and leaning against a stone wall near rose bushes, smelling freshly picked flowers., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "picture book and two elegant litho water color paintings, size 16 x 20, worth about $2.50" included in many cans of Miles' Premium Baking Powder. Also includes positive testiments from individuals and businesses that have used Miles' Premium Baking Powder, dated 1879-1883., 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 - Miles' [P.9615.17]
- Title
- Friedberger & Strouse, ribbons, silks, hats, feathers, &c., Nos. 113 and 115 North Eighth, and 733 Arch Street
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two girls and a boy standing and sitting under vining plants. The boy, with a feathered cap in his left hand, offers a flower to a girl seated with a doll by her side, but she puts her hand up and refuses. Another girl stands on the other side of the boy with a similar flower in her hand., Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co. Boston U.S.A., Advertising text printed on verso: Friedberger & Strouse, the oldest established millinery house on Eighth Street, 113 & 115 North Eighth, and 733 Arch Sts., Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- c1878
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Friedberger [1975.F.341]
- Title
- E.H. Parry, fashionable hatter, S.E. cor. 10th & Market Sts. Phila
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses., Advertising text printed on verso promotes gentlemen's and youths' hats and a comprehensive line of straw hats for sale at E.H. Parry's 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 - Parry [1975.F.667]
- Title
- [Van Haagen's Toilet Soap, Benj. Brooke & Co., Manufs., Philadelphia trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a man holding a bouquet of flowers standing with two women; a man with an envelope approaching a woman standing at a mirror; a couple walking with arms clasped and a poodle by their side; and a soldier peering over the shoulder of a woman who pulls petals off of a flower., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.898 & 901] contain distributor's imprint printed on bottom of rectos in black text: McIlvaine & Co., grocers, S.E. cor. Chestnut & Juniper Sts., Philadelphia., Two prints [1975.F.899 & 900] contain advertising text printed on bottom of rectos in black text: 1st Regiment Bouquet Toilet Soap for sale at soap stand in the fair., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the purity, quality and general superiority of the soap produced by Benjamin Brooke & Co. with the expertise of Mr. A. Van Haagen, formerly of McKeone, Van Haagen & Co., 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 - Van Haagen's [1975.F.898-901]
- Title
- [P. Fleischner & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards, holiday greeting cards, and grand opening notices for P. Fleischner & Co., manufacturer and importer of fine stationery and fancy leather goods, at 1026 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict business cards for P. Fleischner & Co. inset into flowers, a maid with a parakeet, a man bowing and tipping his hat to a woman, and a large jester figure., One print [1975.F.297] contains calendar for January through June of 1880 printed on verso., 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 - Fleischner [1975.F.297; 1975.F.303 & 304; 1975.F.310 & 311; 1975.F.322; 1975.F.326-333; 1975.F.343; 1975.F.345]
- Title
- Time's footsteps for 1881. C. Goodall & Son, London
- Description
- Illustrated trade card for London board game and playing card publisher C. Goodall & Son depicting a man on bended knee, handing a woman a freshly-picked flower., Calendar for 1881 printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1881
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Goodall [1975.F.368]
- Title
- [Louis J. Selliez trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated stock trade cards for Louis J. Selliez's hat store, formerly William Hopson's store, at the northwest corner of Eleventh and South Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses. Also shows two performers, one lying on the ground and balancing a ball on his feet and the other demonstrating his strength by lifting weights., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertisement on verso of one print [1975.F.832] printed by John H. Johnson., Advertising text printed on versos promotes fall and winter styles of hats for 1879 and spring styles for 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Creator
- E. Ketterlinus & Co.
- Date
- 1879-1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Selliez [1975.F.831 & 832]
- Title
- O. B. De Morat, photographer, No. 2 South Eighth St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting couples, including one on their wedding day and another under an umbrella in the rain., 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 - De Morat [P.9753.1-4]
- Title
- Wherefore art thou Romeo? (Romeo & Juliet.) Coe and Co., notions, trimmings, furnishing goods and dressmaking, 222 W. Main St., Norristown, Pa. G.H. Coe. J.C. Kulp
- Description
- Illustrated trade card and caricature depicting a lampoon of the balcony scene from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," except Juliet is much larger than Romeo and cannot see him even though he is immediately below her., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of John H. Serembus., Digitized.
- Date
- c1883
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Coe [P.2005.30.1]
- Title
- [A. J. Chauveau trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for A.J. Chauveau's Philadelphia confectionery business at 110 South Eleventh Street. Illustrations depict a man courting a woman in Colonial garb in a garden; a boy and a monkey wearing the same style feathered hat sitting on top of a drum; and a vignette within an artist's palette depicting an idyllic coastal scene, including pedestrians, buildings, a docked sailboat, and a body of water., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.211] copyrighted 1881 by J.H.H., One print [1975.F.211] die cut and shaped into an artist's palette., One print [1975.F.211] contains advertising text on verso: A.J. Chauveau, manufacturer of choice caramels and pure confections, 110 South Eleventh St., six doors below Chestnut, 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 - Chauveau [1975.F.151; 1975.F.153; 1975.F.211]
- Title
- [Bound Brook Route trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a comical, theatrical scenario with two boys, a girl, a dog, and a thermometer. The boys court and fight over the girl, whose desires seem to change with the season. Additional imagery includes flowers and one of the boys reading. The Bound Brooke Route, operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, operated between Ninth and Green Streets in Philadelphia and New York City. Route opened about 1876 and capitalized on the Centennial celebration in Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on rectos: "19 trains daily, between Philadelphia and New York. Low fare, quick transit, perfect equipment. New York. Trenton. Elizabeth. Long Branch." Prints also contain tables of schedules for train stops between Philadelphia and New York on versos., 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 - Bound [1975.F.45; 1975.F.86; 1975.F.90]
- Title
- [Higgins' German laundry soap trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards with the captions, "come buy your buttercup, dear little buttercup, Higgins' German laundry soap" and "What, never? No, never! What, never? Hardly ever! Without Higgins' German laundry soap." Illustrations depict a sailor and a woman holding hands and two sailors flirting with a woman, both scenes on the deck of a boat. Both women carry baskets., Advertising text promoting J. Sheldon Barber's cider establishment at 920 Market Street printed on versos: "The healthiest drink in the world." "Invalids can use it with entire safety." "Pure sweet cider made fresh every day from carefully selected apples, for sale by the glass, gallon or barrel. Pure cider vinegar, cider jellies, boiled cider and choice apples always on hand. J. Sheldon Barber, 920 Market Street, Philadelphia. All styles of boomer & boschert presses for sale.", 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 - Higgins [1975.F.28 & 1975.F.76]
- Title
- [S. & H. Buckley trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for S. & H. Buckley, manufacturers and retailers of boots and shoes, at 127 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include an old woman snooping on two young lovers; a boy and a girl walking arm in arm; and a bird perched on a nest feeding its young., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include A. Haury., Advertising text on verso of one print [P.9728.11] promotes Buckley's line of wedding slippers., 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 - Buckley [1975.F.69; P.9728.11; P.9802.9]
- Title
- [Partridge's cafe and dining rooms trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Edward Patridge's dining rooms, established in 1862, at 15 North Eighth Street and 19 South Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers, leaves, and acorns; two children attempting to capture a butterfly; a man in a clown suit carrying a bouquet of flowers walking by the light of the moon with a female companion; pottery adorned with cranes and Japanese imagery; and a woman selling produce to a man attired in Turkish clothing in a village near an establishment labeled "Partridge's cafe and dining rooms"., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the cafe and dining rooms and lists specific products served including Christmas cakes, ice creams, water-ices, frozen fruits, oysters, roast turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, veal, coffee, tea, chocolate, strawberries and strawberry cream., 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 - Partridge's [1975.F.687; 1975.F.690; 1975.F.692 & 693; 1975.F.699 & 700; 1975.F.706; 1975.F.711; 1975.F.720a; P.9708.1; P.9798.4; P.9802.11; P.9810.4]
- Title
- Compliments of J.C. Williams & Son, Central Pharmacy, 50 South Salina St., Syracuse, N.Y
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards promoting pharmacist J.C. Williams & Son and including "Surrender" depicting a white man winking as he puts his arms around a white woman from behind. The woman, attired in a hat with red feathers, a red dress with a white collar, and black, fingerless gloves, puts her head down as the man grasps her chin with his left hand and puts his right hand on her shoulder. They stand behind a picket fence. Also includes "Retribution" showing a dog chasing a cat and knocking a startled African American man off of his feet near a fence in a yard. The man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a white collared shirt with blue stripes and white pants with blue patches, flies into the air while his white hat falls to the ground., Title from item., Date from copyright statment on one print: Copyrighted 1882 by Onondaga Lith. Co., Syracuse, N.Y. [P.9828.7105]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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
- [ca. 1882]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7105 & 7106]
- Title
- [Dr. Jayne's medications trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "The morning prayer," "The talking well," "Le dernière mode," "O Nannie, wilt thou gang wi' me?" and "Little Red-riding-hood" depicting a mother praying with her two children and a pet cat; a woman leaning against a well as her lover spies on her from behind a stone wall; a girl playfully wearing a basket on her head; a woman seated with a dog at her feet as a man stands over her and proposes; and a young girl, Little Red Riding Hood, bundled in a red cape with a basket at her feet., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Dr. Jayne's "carminative basalm" and "tonic vermifuge" for conditions afflicting the bowels; "sanative pills" for bilious disorders and for worms in children; and "expectorant" and "liniment" for colds and lung issues., Trade cards issued by Lancaster Thomas, Nineteenth and Pine Streets, Philadelphia; Mackeown, Bower, Ellis & Co., Tenth and Market Streets, Philadelphia; Alfred B. Taylor, 31 S. Eleventh Street, Philadelphia; and Wm. McIntyre, 2229 Frankford Avenue, 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 - Jayne's [1975.F.487; 1975.F.628; 1975.F.878; 1975.F.884; P.2002.67.15]
- Title
- [Wm. F. Simes & Son trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. F. Simes & Son, proprietors of the "little gem corn & bunion remedy", at 1102 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a couple embracing and reeling in a large fish; a woman and three anthropomorphic owls reading and standing on a thin tree branch; a girl reeling in a fish twice the size of her own body; a man with a large, bulbous nose standing next to a stork on a beach, looking toward the ocean where a male fairy flies to retrieve a hat floating in the water; a Native American female cherub kneeling before a small Greek statuette; a male cherub playing a banjo and synchronizing the movements of a tiny ballerina doll to the music with a string attached his leg; a male cherub picking flowers and observing a dragonfly; and a male suitor standing next to the bench where his female companion is seated., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.858] copyrighted 1882 by [illegible?], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1882]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Simes [1975.F.755-759; 1975.F.789; 1975.F.815; 1975.F.858]
- Title
- [Croft, Wilbur & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards promoting confectioners Croft, Wilbur & Co. and depicting children performing a variety of activities, including two white girls playing tug-of-war over a wrapped piece of candy; and boys and girls eating sweets, including a white boy eating a candy stick while holding his dog on a leash. Also shows flowers; a courting white boy and girl couple sitting on a log; two white boy clowns dancing, playing a drum, and strutting a homemade pitchfork; and a man in Colonial attire popping out of a large cracker or bon-bon and dumping candy to white woman who catches it in her skirt. Racist card depicting an African American boy, portrayed in caricature, and a white girl on a candy stick seesaw. In the left, shows the white girl attired in a large, white bonnet; a yellow dress with red polka dots; a blue and white checked smock; orange stockings; and brown shoes, sitting on a red and white striped candy stick. In the right, the barefooted African American boy, attired in an orange shirt and gray pants, sits on the other side of the candy see saw. The fulcrum is a piece of chocolate. Founded in Philadelphia in 1865 by Samuel Croft and Henry Oscar Wilbur, Croft, Wilbur & Co. divided into H.O. Wilbur & Sons and Croft and Allen in 1884., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Includes two prints [1975.F.120 and 1974.F.141] with advertising text printed on versos., 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 - Croft [1975.F.120; 1975.F.141; 1975.F.145; 1975.F.168; 1975.F.176; 1975.F.178; 1975.F.182a; 1975.F.196; 1975.F.210]
- Title
- [Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., 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., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]
- Title
- [Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., 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., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]
- Title
- [Domestic Sewing Machine Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of trade cards promoting the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. "Make no mistake you buy a domestic" depicts two white women, one tall and the other of short stature, who carry parasols and converse. "Wes don got de "domestic" we has!" depicts a racist, comic genre scene of an African American couple, portrayed in racist caricature with exaggerated features, who have acquired a sewing machine. In the center is a man and woman in a blue-colored cart being pulled by a galloping brown horse. The man, attired in a top hat; a blue jacket; a white collared shirt; and green checked pants, strains and leans forward as he holds the reins. The woman, attired in a yellow dress with black polka dots and a pink bonnet, leans back and exclaims in the vernacular that "wes don got the Domestic, we has!" She raises her left hand in the air and holds a white handkerchief. A sewing machine is visible inside the cart. In the far right a barefooted boy attired in a straw hat; a white collared shirt; and brown pants rolled up to his calves, possibly their displaced son, runs beside the wagon. In the top right corner is an inset illustration of a Domestic Sewing Machine Co.’s sewing machine. "Yes my father was a great antiquarian; where he studied antiquity" depicts a well-dressed, white man and woman couple standing on a veranda conversing. The next panel depicts an older white man carrying a sack on his back and picking through a barrel filled with straw and scrap metal with garbage strewn around on the ground. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.229] copyrighted by Frank B. Hine., Includes advertising text printed on versos., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883. Gift of Helen Beitler, 2001 [P.9983.5]., 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 - Domestic [1975.F.229 & 230; P.9983.5]