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- Title
- [Four men hunting and fishing]
- Description
- View of four men sitting on the top of a hill with hunting and fishing gear, including fishing rods, axes, knapsacks, and a dead animal. Tall trees are visible behind them., Title supplied by cataloger., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Recreation [8248.F.10]
- Title
- Fish pond
- Description
- View of a man fishing in a pond from a small mound shaded by a large tree., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett, George O., photographer
- Date
- 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Agriculture and Horticulture [P.2002.21.11]
- Title
- The Connoquenessing near Harmony
- Description
- Landscape view showing men fishing on the Connoquenessing Creek near Harmony, Pa. Also shows several people standing on a trestle bridge in the background., Pink mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9171]
- Title
- E.S. Sullivan's Black Diamond Combination is coming in their new version of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Description
- Illustrated stock trade card advertising the production of Uncle Tom's Cabin and depicting a white man and woman fishing near an old mill and waterfall. In the right, the man, attired in a hat, a white collared shirt, a blue jacket, brown pants, and black boots, stands on a rock and casts his fishing line. The woman, attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved, blue dress, and black shoes, stands and holds her fishing pole. Behind them is a mill with a water wheel., Title from item., Date based on content., Promotional text printed on verso for Uncle Tom's Cabin includes cast of characters and seat prices., Gift of David Doret, 2011., 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., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Sullivan [P.2011.45.25]
- Title
- Penna. fish house
- Description
- Exterior view of the clubhouse known as The Castle of the Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. Association formed in 1732 for hunting and fishing, originally on "Eaglesfield" the old estate of William Warner on the western bank of the Schuylkill River. Construction of the Fairmount Dam circa 1822 forced the clubhouse to rebuild their home near Gray's Ferry, across the river from Bartram's Garden on Rambo's Rock., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helena E. Wright.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Associations [P.9321.2]
- Title
- On the Wissahickon
- Description
- Elevated view, possibly from a nearby rooftop, looking down at a man fishing in the winding Wissahickon Creek. Shows large rocks in and around the water and trees flanking both sides of the creek. Includes a partial, obscured view of a mill building in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Sue H. Williamson No. 18., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9168.2]
- Title
- [Gunnis, Barritt & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a Japanese man attired in traditional clothing seated on a rock and fishing. Also shows a Chinese dragon boat at sea and two storks on a patch of land in the foreground., One print includes date of "important peremptory sale...on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 19th & 20th, 1881"., Advertising text promoting the sale of Chinese and Japanese lacquer goods by auctioneers Gunnis, Barritt & Co. at 524 Market Street printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gunnis [1975.F.202 & 1975.F.364]
- Title
- On the Wissahickon
- Description
- View of the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek. Shows a man fishing from the rocky bank of the creek in the foreground and an old stone mill building in the background. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9058.148]
- Title
- Patapsco baking powder
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a boy with a fishing rod standing with a girl in front of a sign labeled "Patapsco baking powder". William P. Clotworthy of the Baltimore firm of Smith, Hanway & Co. invented and patented Patapsco baking powder., 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 - Patapsco [1975.F.670]
- Title
- Fresh deviled crabs. McMenamin & Co., Hampton, Va
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a crab on land in the foreground and a man and two women crabbing in a rowboat on a body of water in the background. Includes two other boats on the water in the distance. A circular vignette showing deviled crabs is superimposed onto the landscape view., 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 - McMenamin [1975.F.1a]
- Title
- M.T. Hess, successor to D.L. Page, manufacturer of fine confections, no. 918 Arch Street, Philad'a
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depciting boys and girls outside fishing, climbing trees, and taking eggs from a property with a "no trespassing" sign attached to a stone wall., 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 - Hess [1975.F.424 & 425]
- Title
- Collis & Lees, dealers in card novelties, 162 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia New designs in business cards
- Description
- Illustrated comic stock trade card with the caption, "Tables turned," depicting two fishermen, one in mid-air holding a large fish to his chest, as his fellow fisherman reels them both in., Copyrighted by Bufford, Boston., Advertising text printed on verso: To printers. The series of advertising cards of which this is a sample comprises ten different sets, each containing 6 designs, or 60 in all. They are comic and sentimental in character, finely drawn and beautifully executed, and are the cheapest and most attractive for the price now in the market. The series comprise riding scenes, dog cards, steamboat cards, farm scenes, plantation scenes, gunning scenes, fishing mishaps, yachting scenes, winter on ice, sleighing sports. They are put up in packages of 500, and can be furnished so that in 1000 lots there will be 12 designs; in 1500 lots, 18 designs; in 2000 lots, 24 designs; in 2500 lots, 30 designs; in 3000 lots, 36 designs; in 3500 lots, 42 designs; and so on till the sixty designs are supplied. Price per 1000, $2.75. Discount to printers only, 10 per cent. We have constantly in stock a large assortment of comic and floral cards for advertising., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Alan Smith.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Collis [P.9387.3]
- Title
- Walter W. Bragg, printer. Fine gift & bevel edged card a speciality [sic]
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507] for similar illustration., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22]
- Title
- G.M. Loudenslager, dealek [sic] in cigars and tobacco, 480 North Third St., Philad'a
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22] for similar illustration., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507]
- Title
- D.S.B. & Co. New York. Soap makers & perfumers
- Description
- Die cut trade card shaped into a painting palette with an illustration in the center depicting a boy wearing a straw hat and shoulder bag with a fishing rod in his left hand. He wades through a pond or lake toward a signboard reading "D.S.B & Co. New York"., Advertising text printed on verso: Presented by D.S. Brown and Company New York who manufacture the largest & most complete line of toilet soaps in the country. Also a fine line of toilet extracts. Lawn lilac a specialty., 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 - D.S. Brown & Co. [1975.F.29]
- Title
- If dat ar fish knowd dis wor Merrick's thread, he wouldnt ha bit Merrick Thread Co. Best six cord 8
- Description
- Racist trade card for the Merrick Thread Company at 248 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia and depicting Black men, attired only in loincloths, pulling a captured whale onto a beach. The five men, portrayed in racist caricature, stand on the beach and hold onto the thread coming from an oversized spool labeled, "Merrick Thread Co. Best Six Cord 8," in the right. The whale with an open mouth of sharp teeth is pulled from the ocean onto the beach. In the background, two men run, and palm trees are visible in the right. Merrick Thread Co. was founded in 1865 by Timothy Merrick, Austin Merrick, and Origen Hall in Mansfield, Connecticut. After its founding, the company established mills in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1898, the company merged with thirteen other independent thread and yarn manufacturers to form the American Thread Company., Title from item., Date inferred from date of operation of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Merrick Thread Co.'s best six cord soft finish spool cotton for machine & hand sewing and offers patrons "two lithoed water-color engravings" and "Sunshine for Little Children" on receipt of twenty-five cents., 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 - Merrick [P.2002.30]
- Title
- Rustic boat landing. Central Park, N. Y
- Description
- Landscape view of two boys recreating near a small rustic boat landing on a lake or pond in New York City's Central Park. One boy fishes in the foreground and the other sits on a rock looking down at the water., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.43]
- Title
- [Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Clark Thread Company's O.N.T. spool cotton. Illustrations depict children in various settings, including flying a kite with a thread from Clark's O.N.T. spool and a little girl fishing. Also shows a family walking with their dog on the sidewalk in front of a large advertisement for Clark's; a mother sewing buttons onto her daughter's coat; and a mother using a Clark's spool thread to keep her walking toddler from falling., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Kronheim (N.Y.) and Chas. Shields Sons' (N.Y.)., Two prints [1975.F.213 and 1975.F.879] contain advertising text printed on rectos and versos for Joseph H. Traeger's foreign and domestic dry goods store in Bethlehem, Pa., Two prints [1975.F.186 and 1975.F.190] contain six-month calendars on versos., One print [P.9988.2], die cut and shaped into a cylinder, contains advertising text for Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton on verso along with a distributor's stamp: Holm & McKay, 50, Worcester, Mass., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1883]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clark's O.N.T. [1975.F.147; 1975.F.186; 1975.F.190; 1975.F.213; 1975.F.879; P.9988.2]
- Title
- Waterbury Drug Store, established 1797. Leavenworth & Dikeman, Exchange Place, Waterbury, Conn
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards containing "Fishing" showing a white man and woman couple fishing in a rowboat with a pet dog that has its head in their picnic basket; "Caught on the fly" depicting a white man attached to the hook of his own fishing rod as he stands next to a stream; "We met by chance, or waiting for the swell" showing a white man floating on a wave in the ocean and colliding with a white woman as she stands in the ocean near other white women and children; "What are the wild waves saying sister?" depicting a boy, attired in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat, standing next to his sister, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, looking out at the ocean with their backs to the viewer; "Oh, come and see us" showing a group of white children standing in a pond jeering at an older, white man who stands on dry land in the foreground; and "Scoot, brother scoot!" depicting an African American boy and girl holding hands and scurrying from the approaching waves of the ocean. Leavenworth & Dikeman, the partnership between Elisha Leavenworth and Nathan Dikeman, operated in Waterbury, Connecticut between 1850-1890., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Four prints [P.9828.7033-7036] printed by Phoenix Card Co., N.Y., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7031-7036]
- 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
- Uncle Jimmie, Beaufort, S.C
- Description
- Stereograph depicting “Uncle Jimmie,” an older African American man knitting the corner edge of a mesh fishing net extended out in front of him from a pole on the porch of a wood cabin. Shows the man, with receding, short, cropped hair, seated, and in profile. He wears a white, long-sleeve, button-down shirt; dark-colored pants; and work shoes. The man, possibly Gullah, uses a flat rule and needle on the edge of the net. Behind the man, in the background, an open door to an entryway with an open window is visible. A vertical beam is also visible in the left of the image. Knitting fish net was and is one of a number of Gullah traditions (customs developed by enslaved Africans living along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina) practiced in Beaufort, S.C., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from active dates of Wilson & Havens partnership., Orange mount with rounded corners., Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022.
- Creator
- Wilson & Havens, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photographer - Wilson & Havens [P.2020.38]
- 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
- [J. & P. Coat's thread trade cards]
- Description
- Series of trade cards promoting J.&. P. Coats thread and depicting men, women and children performing a variety of activities with the thread, including a white girl swinging on a tree swing; a white man fishing in a stream while a white woman watches; and several white children pretending to be a horse team. Includes a large frog on a riverbank. "So do my sisters and my cousins and my aunts!" depicts an older white woman carrying packages. "Gulliver and the Lilliputians" based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" shows an oversized Gulliver being tied down with thread by the Lilliputians. "That's the kind! Bring me some more" depicts an older white woman inspecting different colored spools of thread in a box held up by a white boy. "Ef dis don't fetch you nothing will" depicts an African American man and woman, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to tame a donkey. In the left, the woman, attired in a white bonnet with a red ribbon, a red shirt, a blue scarf, a yellow shirt, a white apron, and gray shoes, uses thread from an enormous J. & P. Coats spool to pull on the bridle on the donkey, who pulls back with its mouth open. Behind the donkey, the man stands, attired in a brown, brimmed hat, a red shirt, blue plaid pants, and blue shoes, who holds a rope in his left hand and scratches his head with his left hand. "We never fade!" depicts an African American boy, portrayed in racist caricature, sitting on an oversized spool of thread in a field. Shows the boy seated and with his legs straddling a giant spool of black thread. He says “we never fade!!” and points his finger at the sun, which has a face and a concerned expression with a downward turned mouth. The boy is barefoot and attired in a white collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows; a multi-colored tie and belt; and red pants rolled up to the knees. In the foreground, two black crows look at the thread. A house is visible in the right background., Brothers James Coats, Jr. (1803-1845) and Peter Coats (1808-1890) established the firm J.&P. Coats, a thread manufactory. Their brother Thomas Coats (1809-1883) joined the firm soon after. By 1840, three quarters of the British company’s business was with the United States. In 1896, the firm merged with thread manufacturer Clark & Co. and formed J. & P. Coats, Ltd. In 2015, the firm was renamed, “Coats Group.”, Title supplied by cataloger., Five prints printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., Ten prints contain advertising text printed on versos, including promotions for J. & P. Coat's best six cord, soft finish spool cotton; a table of needle and thread numbers; a calendar for 1880; and a description of "Gulliver and the Lilliputians" illustration (on recto of print 1975.F.220)., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883. Purchase 1999. Purchase 2001., 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. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Coats [1975.F.123; 1975.F.126; 1975.F.133; 1975.F.150; 1975.F.157; 1975.F.193; 1975.F.195; 1975.F.220; 69211.D; P.9743; P.9984.4]