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Title: Schaum & Uhlinger, successors to W.P. Uhlinger, Glenwood Ave. and Second St., Philadelphia, U.S.A Jacquard Machines, for every variety of fancy weaving. World's fair, Machinery Hall, Column O 49
Description: Illustrated trade cards depicting vignettes of three kinds of Jacquard looms built and sold by Schaum & Uhlinger, including the "Rotary cylinder 624th rise and fall Jacquard," "Rotary cylinder 624th single lift Jacquard," and the "Rotary cylinder 1248h double lift Jacquard". Schaum & Uhlinger was the partnership between Otto W. Schaum and William W. Uhlinger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schaum [P.9948]

Title: Bought of A. W. Wright & Co., importers and dealers in drugs, medicines, paints, oils, refined coal and lubricating oils, druggists' sundries, &c. Paint department, 124 Market Street. N.E. cor. Market and Front Streets Sole proprietors Kaighn's Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and Hoarhound. Proprietors of the Haddonfield Paint and Oil Works, Haddonfield, N.J. Manufacturers of Dr. Hutchinson's Vegetable Worm Destroyer
Description: Billheads containing ornamented type lettering., P.2011.46.6 completed in manuscript to L. Somers on August 10, 1887 for several items, including "1 Quart Castor Oil" for $8.12. Signed October 12, 1887 By Cash $4.12; December 14, 1887 Recd. Payment A. Wright & Co., P.2011.46.6a completed in manuscript to L. Somers on March 28, 1888 for Chester Oil for $4.58. Signed Recd Payment A.W. Wright & Co. 4/25/88. Manuscript note on recto: 1/4 cents off H.L. Oil if paid in 30 days., P.2011.46.7 completed in manuscript to L. Somers on April 25, 1888 for several items, including "1/2 doz Paint Brushes, #5" for $13.73. Signed June 16, 1888 By Cash $5.73; September 12, 1887 Recd. Payment A. Wright & Co., "Book" and "Page" numbers inscribed in upper left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - A [P.2011.46.6-7]

Title: Directions for making the army woolen mitten First sew the welt on the thumbpiece; then close up the thumb on the back, and fit it in its place, where it must be firmly stitched; then close up the side and finger. It is best to leave the edges of the seams outside, as they serve to protect the sewing. For the left hand mitten reverse the pattern
Description: Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 10.3 x 8.4 cm.; printed label is pasted to a larger broadside cut in the shape of the mitten pattern 27 x 26 cm., and accompanied by an additional cut piece in the shape of the thumb., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Willcox (2)5786.F.171d (McAllister)

Title: William & Coons, importers of fancy goods. Manufacturers of pocket books, no. 19 North Fourth St. Philadelphia Saml. W. Williams. Joseph Coons
Description: Trade card containing a central vignette showing a pocket book., P. 9349.146f contains gilt., 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.141l&146f]

Title: William & Coons, importers of fancy goods. Manufacturers of pocket books, no. 19 North Fourth St. Philadelphia Saml. W. Williams. Joseph Coons
Description: Trade card containing a central vignette showing a pocket book., P. 9349.146f contains gilt., 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.141l&146f]

Title: William & Coons, importers of fancy goods. Manufacturers of pocket books, no. 19 North Fourth St. Philadelphia Saml. W. Williams. Joseph Coons
Description: Trade card containing a central vignette showing a pocket book., P. 9349.146f contains gilt., 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.141l&146f]

Title: [Philadelphia Brewery]
Description: Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]

Title: A.G. Brooks, machinery exchange, 261 N. Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A N.B.--Machinery taken in trade. Over
Description: Manuscript note on recto: Ball engine., Trade card with printed text on verso advertising: portable and stationary engines & boilers, saw mills, steam pumps, all sizes. Aland injector blowers & exhausters, Forster's crushers, Judson's governors, bucket plunger steam pumps, hot-polished shafting, adjustable pipe tongs. Holland sight feed lubricators, scotch glass tubes, Jordan's steam traps, Clark's damper regulators, lathes, planers, drills, &c. A large stock of machinery taken in trade, for sale at the lowest prices. Appraisements of machinery made. Machinery sold on commission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., John D. Avil founded and managed the Avil Printing Company (also known as John D. Avil & Co.) in West Philadelphia from the early 1860s until his death in 1918. In 1868 he purchased land to construct a small building at 3941-3945 Market Street.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brooks [P.2006.20.23]

Title: Frank P. Brown, plumber, steam and gas fitter, No. 53 North Sixth Street, below Arch, Philadelphia Residence, 1414 North Eighteenth Street
Description: Print printed in black ink on green paper., Manuscript note on verso: Mr. Ingram, 3rd abe. Arch, west side., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Frank P. Brown's plumbing business relocated from 145 North Sixth Street to 53 North Sixth Street in 1885.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brooks [P.2006.20.22]

Title: [Briggs & Bro., flour and feed store, East Orthodox Street, Frankford, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the two story brick store. Depicts fenced lot adjoining the store and barrels lined up along the side of the building and under the front awning. Briggs & Bro. was located at several locations on Orthodox Street around the time this photograph was taken. Established at 164 Orthodox in 1879; moved to 242 Orthodox around 1880, and then to 248 Orthodox around 1885., Grey mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: H.M.B.S., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schofield, John, 1835-1910, photographer
Date: between 1879 and 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - business [P.9774.5]

Title: Brown & Magee, manufacturers, 708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Photographic advertising card promoting Brown & Magee, trunk manufacturers, as successors to James E. Brown. Brown & Magee succeeded Brown circa 1866. Depicts a labeled display of men's and women's bags, valises, and trunks. Includes a soufflet bag; a French sac; an officers bag; a tourist bag; and an Army trunk., Inscribed in ink on image: Brown and Magee., Advertisement printed on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 unidentified - Business [(5)5786.F.114a]

Title: Nearing the Atlantic Refining Co's plant at Point Breeze
Description: View from across barren yard of industrial area, including smokestacks and large gas containers. Smoke billows from the smokestacks., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The chimnies [sic] in the foreground are those of a brick kiln. View from 27"and Wharton. Two huge gas tanks are seen in the distance. The smoke is coming from the Refinery. (Get data as to great fires of the past in this plant, number of men employed, output per day. Fill in clouds.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 190 [P.8513.190], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson190.htm

Title: [Wm. Wilson & Son, manufacturers of silverware, northwest corner Fifth and Cherry streets]
Description: View looking south from above Cherry Street showing the manufactory at 78 North Fifth Street. Employees stand at several of the windows of the building. Business adorned with a sign embellished with silver lettering and ornaments. Also shows partial views of merchandise in the display windows and a horse-drawn wagon., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Inscribed in negative: 12., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.37d

Title: [Delivery wagon for Ellwood Allen, lumber & mill work, York & Richmond Sts., Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts a man sitting in an Ellwood Allen lumber & mill work wagon in front of brick row houses on an unidentified cobblestone street. A white horse is harnessed to the wagon, which sits near a pile of bricks on the side of the street., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.13]

Title: Peter Parker, No. 249 North Second St. [Philadelphia] A la mode
Description: Advertisement for hats depicting a jumbled assortment of men's hats displayed on top of an anvil shaped pedestal adorned with an image of a beaver. Parker is listed at this address from 1829 to 1841., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 170, Originally part of John McAllister's scrapbook "Costumes, English & American, 1800-1869."
Creator: Erwin, J., artist
Date: [ca. 1836]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [5743.F.94]

Title: [Dyottville Glass Works]
Description: View showing the Dyottville Glass Works, in Kensington along the bank of the Delaware River, purchased in the late 1810s by English-born boot black maker and patent medicine dealer Thomas Dyott. Shows several of the 50 buildings of the premier glass works, including the factory adorned with the sign "Dyottville Glass Works", farmhouses, and barns. Workers enter the factory and walk on the grounds. Also shows several skiffs docked in front of the complex. The works also had a butcher shop, bakery, and chapel. Originally established as the Kensington Glass Works in 1771 by Towars and Leacock, the Dyottville Glass Works manufactured vials, bottles, flask, demijohns, and "indispensable articles." The factory ceased operations following Dyott's conviction for fraud in 1837 but resumed glass manufacturing in 1842 under the new ownership of Henry Seybert and was active until the end of the century., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 14:84, Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Stauffer, vol. I, folder 56

Title: William W. Cansler's Paper-Hanging Warehouse N.E. corner of Arch & Seventh Sts. Philadelphia Country merchants supplied at the lowest prices. Rooms papered at short notice by careful workmen. Frescoes &c
Description: Advertisement showing a northeast view of the two and one-half story storefront, covered in signage at 242 (i.e., 600 block) of Arch Street). Signage advertises "William Cansler. An extensive assortment of French and American Paper Hangings for Parlors Entries, Dining Rooms, Halls &c of Modern Style Fire Screens" and "Paper Hanging Warehouse." A couple enters the entry to the storefront between showcase windows displaying large wall paper samples. At the side of the building, a man walks past an advertising pole reading "Paper Hangings. Velvet Border" as a woman strolls ahead of him. Cansler tenanted the site 1842-1848., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso

Title: John Mundell & Co.'s Solar Tip Shoes. Made only by John Mundell & Co. Phila None genuine without our trademark. Look out for the trademark. At wholesale by A.P. Doe & Co., Davenport, Iowa
Description: Advertisement containing a scene showing a personified figure of the sun standing on a stage surrounded by children. A few sit on the floor trying on shoes or crying., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 124, Library of Congress: PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell

Title: Jules Hauel's eau lustral hair restorative For the restoration, growth, beauty and preservation of the hair
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer at 120, i.e., 324 Chestnut Street. Shows two well-dressed women in a boudoir that is decorated with carpet, drapes, and a candlelabra. One woman combs her long, lush, flowing hair with her back to a nightstand with a mirror as she looks at the second woman with short wispy hair. Perfume bottles rest on the night stand. Also contains an ornamental border including columns and advertising text. Text promotes the stopping of "decay in the middle of decline, to preserve what is beautiful" through use of Haul's "Hair Restorative" that "stops the falling off of Hair, promotes the growth of it, vivifies the roots and the skin and gives a new vigor to hair." Hauel began his perfumery business in Philadelphia in 1839 by selling vegetable hair dyes and fancy soaps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 129, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 392 W 363, Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [ca. 1842]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 392 W 363

Title: Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R. R. Car Manufactory, 21st. & Hamilton streets Philadelphia Manufactory of every description of rail road passenger and freight cars of any design or dimension required
Description: Advertisement showing a City Passenger R.R. car and passenger railroad car built by the firm. The street car is depicted with a galloping horse team, driver, several passengers, and conductor and travels past the "P.S. Duval & Son lithographers." studio at the corner of Fifth and Minor streets. Richard Kimball and Lorenzo D. Gorton partnered 1851-1861., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.87.173/2, LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton. Copy hand-colored.
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.87.173/2, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton

Title: Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R. R. Car Manufactory, 21st. & Hamilton streets Philadelphia Manufactory of every description of rail road passenger and freight cars of any design or dimension required
Description: Advertisement showing a City Passenger R.R. car and Pacific Railroad car built by the firm. The ornately painted street car is depicted with a galloping horse team, driver, passengers, and conductor. The No. 85 coach produced for the Pacific Railroad of Missouri was introduced circa 1852. Richard Kimball and Lorenzo D. Gorton partnered 1851-1861., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 423, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6742 K 49, Boell operated his studio from 311 Walnut Street 1860-1866.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 6742 K 49

Title: Philadelphia taste displayed. Or, bon-ton below stairs
Description: Satiric scene showing high society, i.e., "bon-ton" in a Philadelphia oyster cellar. A "gentleman" descends the stairwell to the swankly decorated cellar where a motley gathering of men drink, smoke, gossip, and suck oysters. An African American bartender serves drinks from decanters in the left of the image. The bar is adorned with a notice reading "City Privilege still without license." Another African American attends the oyster bar. Plates, crackers, salt, and vinegars line the edge. In the right of the image, a sick-faced patron wobbles and spills his drink next to a tall clock with a decorated face and the inscription "Music has charms." Possibly, the cellar at 806 Market Street operated by African American proprietor James Prosser from about 1830., Inscribed on verso: Said Wm Van [?] of the Walnut/ Chestnut? St. Theatre., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 598, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 O 97, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #40., Jackson, Joseph, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, p. 386-387
Creator: Akin, James, ca. 1773-1846, artist
Date: [ca. 1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 38 O 97

Title: John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W201.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W201 [P.2140]

Title: Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by H.W. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1849.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W298.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W298 [P.2174]

Title: [Lewis Fatman & Co., steam paste blacking, steam friction matches, 41 N. Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [Dec. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W217.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W217 [P.2110]

Title: [Lewis Fatman & Co., blacking manufactory, steam friction matches manufactory, back of No. 412 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 412 Coates Street, later Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W218.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W218 [P.2109]

Title: [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
Description: LCP copy trimmed, lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W192.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W192 [P.2056]

Title: [Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron, No. 8 Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 8 Market Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: [Aug. 1847]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W327.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W327 [P.2185]

Title: Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lithographed by W. H. Rease, No. 97 Chestnut St.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W299.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W299 [P.2089]

Title: Mahlon S. Myers, (successor to Shimmel & Myers,) commission merchant, and dealer in flour, grain & feed, Nos. 239 North Water St., & 244 North Delaware Avenue, Phila In store, and receiving wheat, rye, corn, oats, mill feed, ohio oil cake, and all descriptions of country produce. I respectfully solicit consignments to the above address
Description: Twelve references printed in two columns on recto below title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Myers [P.2002.67.10]

Title: Union Brass Works. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. 525 and 527 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Manufacturers of every variety of cocks for steam, gas, water, liquor, oil, etc. etc. Plumbers', steam or gas fitters', machinists', and coppersmiths' brass work. Steam whistles, globe valves, check valves, gauge cocks, oil globes & cups, couplings, &c. Brass casting and finishing generally. Over
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, a locomotive on a bridge, a large building, and a steamboat on a body of water. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co., the partnership between Richard McCambridge, John Fry and John Robinson, operated from 525 and 527 Cherry Street in the 1860s., Advertising text promoting plumbers' earthenware sold by M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. printed on verso. Text partially illegible after removal from scrapbook., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - M'Cambridge [(2)5786.F.161c]

Title: Edward P. Macken, dealer in Key West, imported and domestic cigars, and tobacco, my 5 cent cigars a specialty. 1140 Pine St., Philad'a All daily, weekly and Sunday papers on hand
Description: Illustrated trade card embellished with a geometric border., 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 - Macken [1975.F.616]

Title: S. Twitchell & Bro. Manufacturers, importers and dealers in bottlers' supplies, 225 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Penn'a "Our motto,--full weight, measure, count and quality." Selden Twitchell. Oscar Twitchell. Manufacturers of spirit coloring, malt coloring, sarsaparilla coloring, ethers and amyls, Belfast ginger ale, tonic and birch beers, pear champagne cider, lemon soda, wild cherry tonic, Phila. cream mead, foam or gum, and all other bottlers' extracts, also bottling tables, filterers, filling machines for internal stoppered bottles, etc. Dealers in and importers of essential oils, corks, bottles, tartaric and citric acids, oil vitrol, whiting, marble dust, bottle washing and rinsing machines, lightning stoppers, neck wires and par. Cork fasteners, bottling tables, etc. shipping cases, etc. Hutchinson and all other patent stoppers, etc
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a glass bottle and a sectional view of a closed mouth of Twitchell's Improved Globe Stoppered bottle printed on verso. Also includes Twitchell's trademark printed on recto., Advertising text printed on verso describes bottle improvements made by S. Twitchell & Bro., 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 - Twitchell [P.2006.20.10]

Title: Bought of Breinig, Fronefield & Co. Druggists & chemists, no. 187 North 3rd Street. Wholesale dealers and importers of drugs, medicines, paints, dye stuffs, glass, perfumery &c.&c
Description: Billhead for the drug firm established in 1848 by Dr. Charles Fronefield and Dr. Breinig. Contains vignette showing druggists' apparatus and supplies, including beakers, flasks, a scale, distiller, mortar and pestle, barrels, casks, and crates of oil of vitriol and glass., Completed in manuscript to Mr. J. S. Stetter on December 31, 1852 for "Roll Sulph" for $21.93., Manuscript note on recto: Dear Sir: There is a small bill standing against you since Nov./51. It was sent twice but the first time it got lost, which no one could justly say was our fault, but as it is somewhat hard for one to bear thy whole loss we are willing to lose 1/4; if it is satisfactory. When we send things to taverns as directed they pass out of our care entirely, we are only responsible for getting them there safely., 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: [1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.124]

Title: Union Tea Co., No. 1735 North 10th Street, teas, coffees, & spices. Handsome & useful presents given away with tea and coffee
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford's Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Union [P.9802.14]

Title: H.O. Wilbur & Sons, chocolate & cocoa manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl outside at a table with a tin of Wilbur's breakfast cocoa. The girl tries to pry a cup of hot cocoa from the boy's hands as he drinks from the cup he stole from her. The scene depicted from the opposite angle showing the boy's back is printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wilbur [P.9306.2]

Title: Use ideal quinine and sulphur soap
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a deer running through a forest., Advertising text printed on verso: Ideal tooth powder 25 c. per bottle. When I go to bed! I can't sleep on account of the terrible itching of my limbs. "Ideal" quinine and sulphur soap will cure this and all other skin diseases. 25 c. per cake. Of your dealer or by mail. Vail Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa., 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 - Ideal [P.9787]

Title: August Nittinger, Jr., manufacturer of butchers' & packers' machinery and tools, nos. 826, 828 & 830 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia Established 1852. The oldest and largest establishment of the kind in the United States. Meat chopping machines, meat rockers, sausage stuffing machines, lard presses &c. Boilers & engines, horizontal or vertical. Importer of genuine English sheep casings, and the celebrates John Wilson's butchers' knives & steels. Depot for the sale of all kinds of casings and spices. Everything in the butchers' and packers' line can be had at this establishment. All goods warranted as represented. Illustrated catalogue & price list sent free upon application
Description: Advertisement printed on verso in German., 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 - Nittinger [P.9849]

Title: Compliments of Nice & Rau, varnishes, paints, oils, etc. 328 & 330 S. Second St. Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette shaped into a leaf showing a few figures ice skating by moonlight. Includes a bare tree in the foreground and the townscape in the background., Advertising text printed on verso: Woodhouse Excelsior Liquid. Patented March 17, 1885. An article the use of which makes finishing woodwork in the natural state easy for the painter and always satisfactory to the owner. Sole agents, Nice & Rau, manufacturers and dealers in varnishes, paints, oils, glass, etc., No. 328 & 330 S. Second Street, Philadelphia., 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 - Nice [P.9651.18]

Title: Bought of Browning & Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in white and red lead, litharge, linseed oil, oil of vitriol, window glass, putty, dye stuffs, &c.&c. No. 33 Market Street
Description: Illustrated billheads containing an exterior view of the "Browning & Brothers Drug and Chemical Warehouse" and storefront on the 100 block of Market Street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk, near awning posts, in front of the store. One is marked "Oil Vitriol." Also shows partial views of adjacent buidlings. Established by Maurice Browning and his brothers circa 1839, the firm was one of the earliest involved in the United States dye trade and operated a factory known as the Aroma Mills in Camden, N.J., P.2011.46.17 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on July 18, 1849 for five items including "2 [fg.?] Laudamun" and "1# Cinnamon Bark" for $9.60. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., P.2011.46.18 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on March 7, 1850 for six items including "5 #os Liquorice [sic] Root" and "4 doz. Batemans drops" for $3.80. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.17 & 18]

Title: Kremintz, white lead, zinc and color works. McKnight & Co., manufacturers, importers, and wholesale dealers, Twenty-Second & Race sts. Philadelphia We manufacture a chemically pure carbonate of lead; and also manufacturers , importers, and dealers in all grades & qualities of leads & zinc paints, colors, &c
Description: Trade card containing an exterior view of the "Kremintz, White Lead, Zinc and Color Works. McKnight & Co." factory and fenced courtyard. Laborers load a horse-drawn wagon near the entryway and another wagon travels down the street. View also includes several smokestacks., Printed above image: G. S. McKnight. Cicero Hunt., 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 albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154c]

Title: [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
Description: Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]

Title: [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
Description: Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]

Title: Chas. A. Duhring & Co., fine American porcelain dinner, tea and toilet sets, pressed glassware--cut patterns, decoration and engraving to order. No. 1226 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa Chas. A. Duhring. Geo. Hobbs
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a border of foliage., 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 - Duhring [P.2006.20.13]

Title: Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia L.C. Schuehler, 1222 N. Fourth Street. H.G. Schuehler, 142 Edward Street. Jobbing promptly attended to. Speaking tubes put up
Description: Manuscript note on verso: One $38.00 from O. Jorden, roof boiler house., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schuehler [P.2006.20.43]

Title: Shill's factory and store, 1029 Chestnut Street, next door to the new opera house
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a wailing baby., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Shill's "celebrated and renowned baby coaches" and lists some of Shill's products in two columns., 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 - Shill [1975.F.779]

Title: Wetherill & Brothers white lead manufactory & chemical works, corner of 12th & Cherry streets, Philadelphia
Description: View predominately showing the yard of the complex built circa 1812-1813 for the earliest American white lead manufactory founded by Samuel Wetherill Jr. in the 1780s. Factory workers labor between a horse-drawn cart, and rows and stacks of crates, barrels, and vats, which cover the yard that is surrounded by buildings. Several smoke stacks adorn the roofs of the shops. Following the circa 1812 fire of the Wetherill white lead manufactory at Broad and Chestnut streets, the new factory was built at the northeast corner of 12th & Cherry streets, including the addition of a chemical manufactory. In 1847, the factory enlarged and relocated to West Philadelphia at 30th Street below Chestnut., Name of artist and printer attributed by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110. Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 122 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 122., Manuscript note on verso: Est 1809 by Saml Wetherwill & Son. N.W. cor. Chestnut & Broad des. by fire abt 1813 then [illegible], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 832, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.4 and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W451 [P.9830.4]

Title: M. Gould's Sons & Co. No. 8 N. Sixth St. Phila. Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting brass rods, fire pokers, a cross, a rail, and other brass hardware. A drape containing the company's name hangs from a brass rod., Advertising text printed on verso: Established 1832. M. Gould's Sons & Co. Manufacturers of stair rods and upholsterers' hardware. Artistic and ecclesiastical brasswork a specialty. Brass curtain poles of all descriptions. No. 8 North Sixth St., Philadelphia. Manufactory, Newark, N.J., 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 - Gould [1975.F.387]

Title: Edward Geary, Jr. dealer in Lehigh and Schuylkill coal. Orders received and promptly attended to, at No. 814 North Second St. above Brown, S.E. cor. Ridge Avenue & Wallace St., (or through despatch directed as above,) Philadelphia. Cash on delivery
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting a sphere labeled "Our Country" partially submerged in water and surmounted by an American flag flying to the right. Includes various styles of hats on a rack printed on verso., Advertising text printed on verso is partially obscured by paper remaining after removing trade card from scrapbook: Edward Geary, fashion, hat & cap store, [81]4 North Second Street, above Brown, Philadelphia. Hats and caps made to order. (Over.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Geary [5786.F.176g]

Title: [Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront on an incline at 8 Market Street. Tea kettles, coffee pots, and other metal cookware adorn the shop window. Storefront also contains signage, and an oil can advertising "Oil Cans" hanging from the second story. A railing on a slant is visible in front of the store. Powell operated from the address 1846-1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. No. 8 Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 673, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W327 [P.2185]

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