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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
- [Two men hunting]
- Description
- View of two men and a young boy hunting in the woods. One man crouches and aims his rifle while the other stands next to him and watches the shot. The boy stands in the background in front of large tree trunk., Title supplied by cataloger., 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 [8313.F.139d]
- Title
- The Chestnut Hill Stock Farm, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Breeders and importers of hackneys and thoroughbreds, hunters, high action pairs, dog-cart horses, ladies cobs, and childrens ponies Hackney and thoroughbred stallions in the stud. Hunters schooled. Horses boarded
- Description
- Trade card containing a vignette showing a hunter on horseback after clearing a fence and accompanied by hounds., Printed above title: Proprietor, Mitchell Harrison, Lock Box 1630, Phila. Address All Communications to the Farm. Manager, W. Fred. Presgrave, Chestnut Hill, Phila., 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. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.9]
- Title
- [Textile labels advertising Ginghams, and Balmoral skirts]
- Description
- Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
- Date
- ca. 1862-ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
- Title
- [Textile labels advertising Ginghams, and Balmoral skirts]
- Description
- Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
- Date
- ca. 1862-ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
- Title
- What's the matter with that ere dog?
- Description
- Illustrated stock trade card depicts a bear with a rifle behind a man that sits on the ground with his legs spread out before him. With a fork in his right hand and a meal in front of him, the man wonders why his dog runs away., Copyrighted Bufford, Boston., Advertising text printed on recto for Atlantic Clothing House, No. 204 North Second Street, Philadelphia, two doors above Race. Morris Salinger, proprietor., Manuscript note on verso: Chester., 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 - Atlantic [P.9577.17]
- Title
- Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, N.Y, solicitors of American and foreign patents and publishers of the "Scientific American."
- Description
- Trade card-size advertising calendar containing illustration drawn by Frank Bellew and captioned "Ready-Acting Dog-Tail and Gun-Barrel Attachment." Shows a hunter, with a hunting basket containing a frog on his back, and his dog wearing the gun attachment "Invented by Donald Read" at a pond. The hunter holds a bullfrog in one hand and the trigger attachment in the other as the dog is aimed at a frog in the water. A farmhouse is visible in the background., Contains several lines of advertising text promoting "Scientific American" "the oldest, largest, cheapest, and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to Engineering, Mechanics, Chemistry, New Inventions, Science and Industrial Progress, published in the United States" on recto. Text describes the depth of the engravings, subscription prices, and benefits of a subscription., Contains calendar for year 1875 and several lines of advertising text promoting "Patents, Munn & Co. Established 1846" on verso. Text solicits for inventor's patents, notes "special notices" in "Scientific American," and advises the attainment of their pamphlet detailing patent laws., 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
- [1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.168]
- Title
- [Sooy's trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting sprays of flowers; a man smelling flowers while his female companion lies on her stomach in the grass nearby; a hunting scene labeled "Autumn" showing a dog and two boys walking, one of them with a rifle slung carelessly over his shoulder, which has just discharged and knocked the hat off of the boy behind him; and Santa Claus approaching a chimney with a sack of toys on his back. His reindeers and sleigh wait for him on the rooftops overlooking the skyline of the city., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.827] contains trimmed "List of Streets of Philadelphia, North and South of Market St." printed on verso., 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 - Sooy [1975.F.761; 1975.F.776 & 777; 1975.F.785; 1975.F.811; 1975.F.827-829]
- Title
- [Brownings trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Brownings fine clothing and gent's furnishing store in the Girard House at Ninth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict ornate, gilt cards with decorative text and borders; flowers; birds; a horse-drawn carriage; a butterfly; an eagle; a hunting scene; a cabin; and a buffet of sweets, including fruit and cakes., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include the New York firm Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and the Boston firm L. Prang & Co., One print [P.9306.3] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston, U.S.A., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos. One print [1975.F.62] contains "Directions for Self-Measurement" on verso with front and back views of a man attired in a coat. Another print [1975.F.49] contains printed text on verso that attests to the quality of Brownings clothing., Two prints [1975.F.113 and 116] die cut and shaped into ovals., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.9306.3] gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
- Date
- [c1878-[ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brownings [1975.F.49; 1975.F.62; 1975.F.113; 1975.F.116; P.9306.3]
- Title
- [I.S. Custer, Son & Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for the millinery and fancy goods business of I.S. Custer, Son & Co. at 39, 41, & 43 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a boy hanging from a tree branch by his shirt after attempting to steal apples from a fenced-in yard with a sign reading "Keep off". A boy with a basket full of apples stands below him and watches from the ground. Also shows a girl wearing a bonnet with a red, white and blue ribbon and resting her head on her hands in a field with flowers and a butterfly. Includes two cherub-like figures, one representing "Septembre" running from a rabbit with his rifle and hunting bag, and the other, "Octobre," wearing a robe and a laurel wreath on his head and spilling wine from a goblet., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.207] die cut and shaped in an art or painting palette with advertising text for goods available within Departments A through H printed on verso., 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 - Custer [1975.F.149; 1975.F.199-200; 1975.F.207]
- Title
- [A.C. Yates & Co. clothing trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for A.C. Yates & Co. clothing store, which began operations on the ground floor of the Public Ledger Building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia in 1876. Illustrations depict a bust portrait of William Penn and Penn's treaty with the Indians to commemorate the Penn Bicentennial (1682-1882); children walking in the snow and carrying sprigs of holly; a boy sitting on a bare tree limb under a smiling moon serenading cats from sheet music labeled "Au Clair de la lune"; couples on the beach painting, reading by moonlight, and embracing behind the privacy of a large umbrella; swans swimming with flower garlands in their beaks; a traveling hunting party, including two men mounted on horses with a large group of hounds; three bystanders watching a man paint a large sign for A.C. Yates & Co. onto a brick wall; birds; sprays of flowers; two women and a man ice skating together; children blowing bubbles; children tumbling to the ground after hoisting one another to grab canisters from the top of a pantry; putti holding grotesque masks; and a view of Fairmount Park from Belmont, showing well-dressed couples sitting and walking in the park, a horse-drawn carriage and a man riding horseback on a dirt path in the foreground, and bridges spanning the Schuylkill River in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Hatch Lith. Co. (New York); Chas. Shields' Sons (New York); and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eighteen prints contain advertising text printed on versos., Two prints contains calendars for 1881 printed on versos., One print [P.9057.52] contains a manuscript note on verso: A.N. Fisher, card with which she read the three volumes of "The Dutch Republic" winter of '77 & '78. The ending of the books were nicer than the rest. Suge? of Leipsig--very good--& you couldn't help being interested in persons, places & performaces. Wm. of Orange's nearly only despicable characteristic was having spies and thru them interrupted [?]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1876-ca. 1882]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Yates [1975.F.679; 1975.F.907; 1975.F.1013 & 1014; 1975.F.1016; 1975.F.1018-1032; P.8666.3i-3l; P.8666.3p; P.8666.3z; P.9057.52; P.9642.7; P.9802.12]
- Title
- [Sharpless & Sons trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women in a variety of settings, including a woman sitting on the beach with a parasol and fan; a woman attired in gypsy-inspired clothing kneeling next to an urn; the bust of a woman wearing a large plumed hat superimposed onto a painting palette; and another bust portrait of a woman wearing a hat. Also shows men in hunting gear with rifles and dogs; clowns balancing on the hardware of a clock; a couple on the beach stopped in front of an enormous hermit crab, birds and guitar; a chef wielding a large knife with his hand around the throat of a large duck; a couple standing inside of a large lantern; men working on a large paper lantern that hangs from a tree branch; a couple being transported in a covered gondola; and a table containing wine, fruit, bread and dishes superimposed onto a painting palette., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include D. Hutinet (Paris), Bognard (Paris) and John A. Lowell & Co. (Boston)., Advertising text printed on versos: Sharpless & Sons, importers, jobbers & retailers of dry goods, 801, 803, 805 & 807 Chestnut Street, 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 - Sharpless [1975.F.760; 1975.F.762; 1975.F.766-768; 1975.F.780; 1975.F.794; 1975.F.812; 1975.F.814; 1975.F.825; 1975.F.838-840]