Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for E. Fonteneau inset into pink roses., 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 - Fonteneau [1975.F.339]
Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. Gunzer, practical hair cutter, 34 North Broad Street, opposite Masonic Hall in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict flowers; children playing on the beach and in the ocean; comic scenes showing men, women and children ice skating, rowing a boat, playing on a swingset, and playing baseball; and portraits of old men and women dangling items to lure various animals, including a dog, an owl, a monkey, a rabbit, a cat, and a parakeet., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.366, 370, 374 & 376] copyrighted 1881 by M.F. Tobin, N.Y., Printers and engravers include Lloyd & Porter (Philadelphia) and M.F. Tobin (New York)., 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 - Gunzer [1975.F.353; 1975.F.357 & 358; 1975.F.363; 1975.F.366; 1975.F.370; 1975.F.374; 1975.F.376; 1975.F.388; 1975.F.390-397]
Illustrated trade card depicting the title displayed on a signboard with a crown surrounded by flowering vines, a winged cherub and a bust statue., Advertising text printed on verso promotes W. Dauphin's "city of Paris" where flowers, garnitures, ball and bridal outfits, mourning goods, and hair dressing services are provided., 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 - Dauphin [1975.F.891]
Plate 15 showing a section of the 900 block (244-293) of Chestnut Street. South side includes Burd Mansion (identified with pencil inscription) and C. N. Robinson, Looking Glasses (248). North side includes Markoe House, W. Watson, proprietor (293); the women's exchange Ladies Depository (289); S. H. Mattson, Tailor (287); boot and shoe maker M. Lauer & Co. (285); E. Griffith, Fancy Dry Goods (283); J. H. Farrand’s, Confectionery (281); C. Dan[g]uy , Hair Dresser (279); and Charles S. Rand, Druggist & Chemist (279)., Accompanying advertisements promote ten of the depicted businesses, as well as businesses from adjacent plate, including F. A. Hoyt’s Boy’s Clothing Store (264); T. W. Dufrene, Composition Marble Cement (Chestnut, below Tenth); Rand; Danguy; Farrand; Laurer; Mattson; and the Ladies Depository. Advertisements contain promotional text and ornamented type. Promotions include Rand noting the availability of "Vaccine Virus"; Dufrene highlighting the advantages of imitation marble; and the Ladies Depository listing "Surplices, Ladies and Gentlemans Dressing Gowns, as well as Plain and Fancy Needlework, of every description, neatly executed, - also marking with Indelible Ink.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.13]., Folder 16.
Creator
Rae, Julio H.
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 16 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
