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Title: James M. Vance & Co., importers & jobbers of hardware, cutlery & tools, builders' and housekeepers' hardware, 324 and 326 Market, Philadelphia H. Vance Peters, Edmund L. Wunder, Richard M. Conarroe, Est. William C. Peters
Description: Illegible manuscript note on recto below street address., 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 - Vance [P.2002.67.8]

Title: F.G. Ford's patent support for bed slats (patented April 7th, 1885.) Manufactured and sold by Thos. Devlin & Co., American Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a hook and socket patented by F.G. Ford, along with vignettes of a table and a person in a bed surrounded by a net., Advertising text printed below engravings on recto lists potential uses for Ford's hook and sockets, including bed slats, mattresses, wardrobes, tables, benches, shelving in stores, windows, wagons, closets, bath tubs, seats in water closets, and for use by carriage builders, cabinet makers, carpenters, paper hangers, farmers, and poultry raisers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: Ware Bros., engraver
Date: 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Devlin [P.2006.20.52]

Title: Extra news! Philadelphia in no danger of invasion from the rebels! The largest battery in the city! Recruits wanted, from 2 to 60 years of age, at J.B. Shannon's rendezvous, 1009 Market Street, married or unmarried, to purchase field pieces, in large or small numbers, from five cents to ten dollars, mounted or unmounted, the largest assortment in the city to select from. Please give us a call! N.B. Pistols, all styles, and at prices to suit the times!
Description: Jacob B. Shannon, locksmith and hardware manufacturer, is listed in Philadelphia directories at this address beginning in 1860., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Shannon, Jacob B.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Shannon 5786.F.110b (McAllister)

Title: G. & H. Barnett, Black Diamond File Works, 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card for G. & H. Barnett's Black Diamond File Works depicting a vignette of the Main Exhibition building, designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson, at the Centennial Fair in Philadelphia. A decorative border with the date "1876" surrounds the vignette and is surmounted by patriotic symbols, including an eagle flanked by four American flags. Within the illustration, men and women promenade near trees and bushes on the landscaped grounds surrounding the building. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Barnett [P.2006.3]

Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: [Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting three sad irons in a wooden box; a caricature of Abraham Lincoln holding a document in his left hand as he uses his right to operate an Enterprise faucet to fill up a container with molasses; and an exterior view of the Forestry Building on the grounds of Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois for the 1893 world fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Columbus to the New World. The following text separates the caricature of Lincoln from the view of the Forestry building: "I found, when a grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, give always good measure, save labor and use the self measuring, Enterprise faucet.", One print [P.9577.13] copyrighted 1893 by Donaldson Brothers, lith. N.Y., Printers and engravers include Maryland Lith. Co. (Baltimore) and Donaldson Brothers (New York)., Includes advertising text for Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" and "measuring faucet" printed on versos. Enterprise's "sad iron outfit" sold by C.Y. Schelly & Bro., Allentown, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9162] gift of George Allen., Digitized.
Date: ca. 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Enterprise [P.9162 and P.9577.13]

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