Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [diploma]
Title
Penn sylvania State Agricultural Society [diploma]
Description
Certificate containing vignettes and graphic elements related to agriculture. Vignettes at the bottom of the print show clusters of farm animals, including cows, pigs, and fowl; a man providing a bowl of feed to a couple of horses with a foul in a fenced pasture in front of a house; and a farmer plowing his field. Graphic elements in the upper corners include farm implements, tools, and equipment, including shovels, pitchforks, sickles, rakes, and a grinding implement. Also includes a vignette depicting the state seal. Flowers, produce, and vinery border the graphics and surround the text of the certificate. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., pdcp00032, Not in Wainwright., Issued to J.E. McClees for Photographs in Watercolors at the exhibition of 1859. Signed Davis Taggert, President; A.O. Hiester, Secretary, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 168, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies and Certificates, Variant of circa 1851 Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [diploma] signed in 1857. [Philadelphiana - Societies and Certificates], Rosenthal relocated his lithographic studio to 5th and Chestnut circa 1856.
Creator
Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society [diploma]
Title
Penn sylvania State Agricultural Society [diploma]
Description
Certificate containing vignettes and graphic elements related to agriculture. Vignettes at the bottom of the print show clusters of farm animals, including cows, pigs, and fowl; a man providing a bowl of feed to a couple of horses with a foul in a fenced pasture in front of a house; and a farmer plowing his field. Graphic elements in the upper corners include farm implements, tools, and equipment, including shovels, pitchforks, sickles, rakes, and a grinding implement. Also includes a vignette depicting the state seal. Flowers, produce, and vinery border the graphics and surround the text of the certificate. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual exhibition of the society was held the same year., pdcp00033, Not in Wainwright., Issued to Mrs. G. B. Johnston for best specimen of animal oil painting at the exhibition of 1857. Signed David Taggert, President. Robt. Walker, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 167, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Societies and Certificates
Creator
Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date
[ca. 1851]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Societies - Certificates
Dreer's garden calendar 1886 [catalog cover]
Title
Dreer’s garden calendar 1886 [catalog cover]
Description
Front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue for the Henry A. Dreer firm. Front cover shows a property containing a mansion house (with an attached greenhouse), tree orchard, garden patch, and two outbuildings, including one with a windmill. In the foreground, a man on horseback passes on a road through the estate. Back cover shows a display of farm produce including, celery, pumpkin, corn, potatoes, watermelon, beets, lettuce, carrots, and asparagus in the foreground of a farming scene. Decorative trims line the top and bottom edges. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00055, Price list of available gardening book titles, index to calendar, "useful tables" for planting, and prices for flower pots and garden sticks printed on verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards, Butler previously was a partner of the Packard & Butler, later Packard Butler, & Partridge firm which ceased operation in early 1886 following a fire. Butler operated a studio solely until 1893.
Date
[ca. 1886]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards