Illustrated trade cards depicting women's hands holding bunches of flowers. German-native Christian Becker started his confectionery business in Philadelphia circa 1875., 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 - Becker [1975.F.27 and 1975.F.73]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a woman's left hand hold and displaying a bunch of roses and a boy hanging from a tree limb, lowering a bowl into a girl's hands near a stone wall with a sign reading "No trespassing"., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes E.H. Worne's laces, embroideries and white goods store, established in 1850, at 38 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 - Worne [1975.F.984 & 1975.F.1001]
Illustrated trade card depicting a woman's hand holding and displaying a bunch of 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 - West End [P.2006.20.47]
Illustrated trade card and easel cutout shaped into an upturned hand displaying a collar. Cluett, Peabody & Co., manufacturers of men's shirt collars, began as Maullin & Blanchard in 1851 in Troy, New York. After several style changes, Cluett, Peabody & Co. officially formed in 1899., Directions to display easel cutout printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Cluett [P.9983.6]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a cat; women's hands holding and displaying flowers; nuns walking with open umbrellas in the rain; a girl sitting on a fence; a woman pouring tea; girls bundled in matching coats, hats and hand warmers; and a bride attired in her wedding gown holding a bouquet of flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on rectos promotes Enlish linen note paper, Easter cards, and Valentines., Advertising text printed on versos promotes fine stationery created and sold by Smith from his 130 South Eleventh Street shop, including wedding cards and programmes, note paper, envelopes, and stylographic pens., 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 - Smith [1975.F.744; 1975.F.754; 1975.F.765; 1975.F.771; 1975.F.773; 1975.F.782; 1975.F.803; 1975.F.817-820]
