Trade card containing the image of a milk cow with her udders attached to a milking contraption within a milk pail., 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. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.12]
Contains central vignette showing the bare-chested, allegorical female figure Ceres (i.e., Bounty). She sits on sheaves of wheat near a plow, Cows are visible in the background., Includes verse: Come let us haste to the schoolroom away, Nor tarry a moment of time on the way, For when lessons are learn'd and our tasks are all done, We may sport on the green till the set of the sun., 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. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.154]
