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Title: May I. C. U. home?
Description: Specimen to advertise sets of escort cards (i.e., acquaintance cards) containing a vignette surrounded by a decorative border. Vignette depicts two frogs, facing each other, and holding hands., Stamped on verso: 40 Escort Cards, 35 designs for 10 cts., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.62]

Title: Compliments of Merscher Bros., tailors, 521 Poplar Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak). Includes geometric borders., 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 - Merscher [P.9615.16]

Title: Pollywogs, the five cent cigar. Hand made Havana filled. Gumpert Bros. manufacturers. Store 1341 Chestnut St. Factory 115, 117, 119, 121 S. 23rd St. Phila. For sale everywhere
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two anthropomorphic frogs smoking Pollywog cigars. One frog wears a bow tie and cap and leans against a large tree trunk and holds his cigar in his right hand. The other frog smiles down at his lit cigar on top of a Pollywogs' box, which rests on a large mushroom cap., Manuscript note on verso partially illegible. Numbered 53., 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 - Pollywogs [1975.F.721]

Title: Tally Ho. Alex. Kenney. 102 South Broad St., Philadelphia
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting anthropomorphic frogs smoking, playing leapfrog, and wearing a beret and holding a paddle., 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 - Kenney [1975.F.475-477; 1975.F.479]

Title: Geo. C. Brotherton, prop'r. Sample and lunch room, No. 130 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a frog near flowers in a decorative vase., 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 - Brotherton [1975.F.60]

Title: Wear Celluloid collars and cuffs
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting anthropomorphic frogs, fairy-like figures, and a bee wearing large collars around their necks and wrists as they fly, dance, play the banjo, and sit near the pond. The Celluloid Manufacturing Company was established in 1872 in Newark, New Jersey., Includes advertising text printed on versos: Celluloid. (Water-proof linen.) Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms. Elastic, linen finish, durable. When soiled, rub with soap or water (hot or cold), used freely with a stiff brush. Advice to wearers. Always slip the necktie under the roll of the turn down collar. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods give better satisfaction if the separable sleeve button and collar button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic, or chamois washer around the post of sleeve button, to prevent rattling of button. To remove yellow stains which may come from long wearing, use sapolio soap, or salertus water, or celluline. Goods for sale by all dealers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [1975.F.177; 1975.F.219; 1975.F.737]

Title: T. McCandless & Son, fancy & staple grocers, S.E. cor. 20th & Pine Sts., Philadelphia Established 1844
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog sitting on a mushroom reading a book propped on an adjacent mushroom next to a skull and crossbones. T. McCandless & Son was a partnership between Thomas and his son James A. McCandless., 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 - McCandless [1975.F.623]

Title: Jas. K. Simon, 29 South Sixth Street, above Chestnut, old established book store
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting ducklings and frogs in a pond. Includes a sprig of flowers tucked into the sign inscribed with the title., Copyrighted by J.H. Bufford's Sons, Boston., Advertising text printed on verso promotes books for holiday presents, including Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Grant's Tour, Indian Summer, Pastoral Days, and other fine illustrated books., 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 - Simon [1975.F.836]

Title: Finale of a breakfast on biscuits made of Heckers' self-raising flour
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders smoking a pipe. Heckers' self-raising flour was introduced in 1850 by Hecker & Brother, a partnership started in 1843 between John Hecker, Jr. and George Valentine Hecker in New York City., Advertising text printed on verso: Housekeepers should always be ready to take advantage of anything that will lighten their laborous duties and relieve them from some of the many vexations that are sure to occur in their busy lives. Certainty of results, saving of time, trouble and labor are only a few of the many advantages that may be gained from using Hecker's self-raising flour. This flour comes put up in 3 and 6 lb. packages, ready for use at a moment's notice; requires no salt, yeast or baking powder. Only the exact proportions of raising material are put in, thus insuring a perfect certainty. Your grocer sells it. Directions on every package., 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 - Heckers [1975.F.411]

Title: [Charles Herder trade cards]
Description: Illustrated trade cards with vignettes on rectos and versos depicting a roller skate, shaving knife, utensils, and an array of knives and tools. Also shows an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders aiming a revolver., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include the Charles A. Dixon Printing House (Philadelphia) and Rowley & Chew (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes products manufactured, imported and repaired by Charles Herder at 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, including roller skates, ice skates, shears and scissors, razors, table cutlery, pocket cutlery, and carving and pen knives. The business of Charles Herder began in 1847 as Clarenbach & Herder, changed to L. Herder & Son in 1871 and by 1879, the style changed to Charles Herder., 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 - Herder [1975.F.434 & 435; 1975.F.410a]

Title: Use Dalley's magical pain extractor. The great family ointment
Description: Series of whimsical illustrated trade cards depicting a male figure attired in a red, white, and blue scarf standing on a tree branch, reading a book as an ink stand with a feather falls from the tree and another male figure wearing a hat and ruffled collar standing on a reed, holding a hoop through which a frog leaps. Imagery also includes birds, frogs, a scythe, and an hourglass. Henry Dalley, Sr. began manufacturing "Dalley's magical pain extractor" in New York in 1839. Cornelius V. Clickener & Co. assumed control of the product name after Dalley's death in 1852. Henry Dalley, Jr. eventually regained control of his father's product in 1865, about five years after the dissolution of C.V. Clickener & Co., Includes advertising text promoting "the ten reasons" to use Dalley's magical pain extractor printed 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 - Dalley's [1975.F.288-289]

Title: [Carter Medicine Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a large frog towering over a small, frightened child and a little girl pointing and instructing her ailing grandfather to take Carter's back ache plasters., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos for products made and sold by Carter Medicine Co., including "Carter's little nerve pills" and "smart weed and belladonna back ache pilasters"., 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 - Carter [1975.F.131; 1975.F.134]

Title: Lewis Voight & Son, artistic paper hangings
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting anthropomorphic blue bird with a portfolio under one wing and a painting palette under the other. A frog sits adjacent to the bird at the edge of a lily pond. Includes flowers and a paddle fan inscribed with the monogram of the company: LV&S., 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 - Voight [1975.F.887]

Title: [Julius Sichel trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a toddler standing in her crib rubbing her eyes, eating from a bowl with a spoon, and playing with a bed warmer. Also shows a lady wearing an oversized coat and bonnet tied around her chin with a pink ribbon and a frog holding a flame to an exploding cannon., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Sichel's millinery shop and announces his removal from 105, 107 & 109 North Eighth Street to 50, 52 and 54 North Eighth Street in 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 - Sichel [1975.F.769; 1975.F.796; 1975.F.810; 1975.F.813; 1975.F.856]

Title: [William Y. McAllister trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for optician William Y. McAllister's shop at 728 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict idyllic landscape views of a forest, a stream, a cottage and ruins by a lake and anthropomorphic frogs, a stork, and an owl looking through telescopes and binoculars, reading and fishing., Title supplied by cataloger., Calendar for 1881 printed on verso of one print [1975.F.614]., 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 - McAllister [1975.F.610-614]

Title: [William B. Dixey trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards, including the titles, "Caught!" "Peacemaker," "Eggspectation," "The glorious fourth," "Sleighing," and "A fowl blow," for William B. Dixey's plumbing, gas and steam fitting business at 3826 Market Street in West Philadelphia. Illustrations include Christmas and Independence Day imagery and depict children performing a variety of activities, including picking apples, playing and pulling a Christmas tree in the snow, smelling flowers, acting, and diving. Also includes a man being blown up by a gas explosion, a group of men thrown onto the ice from their horse-drawn sleigh, frogs, ducks, chicks, eggs, flowers, balloons, dogs and cats., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co., Eleven prints contain the following advertisement: Agents for Hellyer's Water Closets., Four prints die cut and shaped into decorative fans., 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 - Dixey [1975.F.93; 1975.F.222a; 1975.F.224; 1975.F.228; 1975.F.232; 1975.F.233 & 234; 1975.F.236-239; 1975.F.241-243; 1975.F.263 & 264; 1975.F.278-281; 1975.F.285; 1975.F.287]

Title: [Theo. Ricksecker's trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a jester and a frog performing a variety of activities, including the jester playing a banjo and the frog dancing; the frog posing and the jester sketching his portrait; and the frog bound to a leaf stem and the jester aiming a bow and arrow at an apple on top of the frog's head., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Ricksecker's skin soap, reliable perfumes, Fifth Avenue Cologne, and face 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 - Ricksecker [1975.F.747-749]

Title: [S. Shoneman trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Samuel Shoneman's "button house" and ladies' trimmings store at 101 South Eleventh Street, later 1018 Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers; flowers in a vase; children carrying a potted flowering plant; a girl picking and smelling flowers; putti; a boy straddling a music stand containing sheet music and playing the violin or fiddle; a male figure attired in a hat and ruffled collar standing near a scythe and hourglass holding a hoop through which a frog leaps; and a view showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods are sat upon and displayed by the English delegation. Also shows residences standing in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting various styles of buttons sold by Shoneman's "button house", along with various ladies trimmings, jewelry and fancy goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880-1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shoneman [1975.F.691; 1975.F.698; 1975.F.798; 1975.F.850; 1975.F.852; 1975.F.862 & 863; P.9728.10]

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]

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