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- Title
- Market St., west of 10th St
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso advertising: Stereoscopes and Views, Wholesale and Retail., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.94]
- Title
- [Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]
- Description
- View showing the oldest U.S. business school, established by Peter Duff in 1840, on Fifth Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. View also shows adjoining businesses, including: Pennsylvania Insurance Company, Allegheny Insurance Company, and the Morning Post stationery and printing shop. The Morning Post building is adorned with a playbill advertising a minstrel show. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred by content., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Ivan Noble, 1971., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Education [7992.F.15]
- Title
- Custom House & Post Office Phila, Pa
- Description
- View showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Also shows a lamppost in the foreground; a vendor's stand near the Customhouse; men convening near the post office; and adjacent businesses, including W.F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9228]
- Title
- [Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Street scene looking northeast from below the intersection of Walnut and Dock streets showing the semi-circular portico of the exchange. The building was built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. A horse-drawn trolley travels on Dock Street near parked horse-drawn carriages. Also shows surrounding businesses including a partial view of the Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street and John C. Clark & Sons, stationers and printers, at 230 Dock Street., Trimmed light yellow mount., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded and emulsion damaged., Digitization 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 - Banks [(6)1322.F.117f]
- Title
- [Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings, and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19]
- Title
- Panoramic view of Philadelphia west from State House
- Description
- Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes a hat manufactory (Sixth and Chestnut); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building covered with scaffolding (607 Chestnut, built 1866); Perry & Co., clothiers (609 Chestnut); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9462.23]
- Title
- [Southwest corner West 3rd Street and Market Square, Williamsport, Pa.]
- Description
- View showing the southwest corner of Market Square in downtown Williamsport, Pa. Businesses include Philadelphia & Erie railroad ticket office with John A. Vanderslice, agent; S.M. Beck & Co., hardware store; W.M. Harrison & Co., stationery and wallpaper store; and a piano forte warehouse. Ticket office covered in signage. Also shows several men standing near a lamp post adorned with advertisements in front of the ticket office; farm implements on display in front of the hardware store; and a blanketed horse standing in front of the stationery store., Buff mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: S.W. corner W. 3rd and Market Square., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia [P.9466.10]
- Title
- [Market Street, showing businesses on the south side between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View shows businesses occupying 1106 to 1114 Market Street including Waterman & Ramson, dealer in candies, etc. (1106 Market); Pfeil's hats and caps (1108 Market); Manigle's stoves, heaters & ranges (1110 Market); a carpet store (1112 Market); and Sam Whalley & Co. wines and liquors (1114 Market). Also shows display windows at street level, numerous signboards on the front facades, and three horse-drawn carts parked on the south side of Market Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from blind stamp on recto., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Streets [P.9486.2]
- Title
- [Founders' Week parade, Philadelphia Brewing Co. floats, Industrial Day, October 7, 1908, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the procession of horse-drawn floats on South Broad Street between Walnut and Pine streets during the Founder's Week parade. Floats display boughs of barley and hops; stacks of crates; and a large keg. Viewing stands decorated with bunting and American flags filled with spectators line the street. Also shows several police officers, including African Americans, standing in front of the crowds on the east side of the street. The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel is visible in the left background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchase 1976., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Processions [8191.F.1]
- Title
- Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
- Description
- View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men, attired in hats and smocks, near a large model of a keg inscribed "Brewing Industries of Philadelphia." Float also displays a large banner listing revenues spent by the brewing industry on its "allied trades." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2958., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.4]
- Title
- Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th 1908. Phila. Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
- Description
- View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men, attired in white suits and hats, lead the horses pulling the float. The float contains two white men near displays of crates of bottles and is adorned with a hand-painted banner depicting a freight train near factories and a vignette portrait of a horse. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2955., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.6]
- Title
- Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
- Description
- View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. The float with a financial theme contains white men costumed as "Uncle Sam" and a late 17th-century gentleman near a chest labeled "State Treasury" and stacks of money bags. Float also contains a banner inscribed with the annual amounts of local, state, and federal taxes paid by Philadelphia brewers. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2953., Purchase 1986, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.7]
- Title
- Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
- Description
- View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the celebration of the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men and a woman in German costume near hop vines on stakes, and boughs of barley and hop tenders. Float also contains a banner promoting the amount of hops, barley, and other cereals utilized by Philadelphia breweries. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2959., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.8]
- Title
- Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th, 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
- Description
- View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men attired in costume lead the float containing brewing equipment, including a kettle and fermenter. Several men sit and stand on the float, which also displays a banner promoting the "Magnitude of the Brewing Industry of Pennsylvania." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Manuscript note on mount: Property of National Decorating Co., Phila. Pa., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
- Date
- October 7, 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9260.639]
- Title
- [The Fisher House. Formerly No. 110 now 226 South Front Street The residence of Saml. R. Fisher - where he deceased. His son (only) Thomas then occupied the house where he died, on Tuesday morning, Feby 12th 1856. The house is remarkable from the "pent" roof over the front door - where the second or upper door appears in the picture there was a window similar to that remaining. S.R.F's counting house* no. 27 (old) Dock St. and storehouses were in the rear of this, on Dock Street. The houses northerly in view are to the N.W. cor. of Front and Granite Street.]
- Description
- View looking east showing the 200 block of Front Street, including the former residence of merchants Samuel Rowland Fisher and his son Thomas Fisher. Also shows adjacent businesses including Kirkpatrick, DeHaven & Co., liquor dealers (228-230 S. Front) and the Pennsylvania Railroad Emigrant Line office (224 S. Front). Also shows barrels lining the sidewalk and a parked horse-drawn dray., Date inscribed on negative., Title from duplicate., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- May 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - F [(7)1322.F.27d]
- Title
- Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Ninth to Tenth, [south] side
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the Burd Building at 900-904 Chestnut tenanted by Howell & Brothers, paperhangings, J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelers, and J.F. and E.B. Orne, carpets. Also includes: E. Clinton & Co., brush manufacturer (908 Chestnut) and F. Augustus Wenderoth, William C. Taylor, and J. Henry Brown, photographers (912 & 914 Chestnut). Signage adorns many of the buildings promoting merchandise, including pianos, ladies dresses, and fancy goods. A man stands on the opposite corner near a dray and a lamppost with an advertisement for Fox's American Variety Theater (built 1863, burned 1867)., Stereograph mounted on green mount with square corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- ca. 1866
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.95c; (8)1322.F.27h]
- Title
- R. & G.A. Wright. Manufacturers of fine perfumery &c. 624 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Exterior view of the storefront of the perfumery established in 1860. Building is adorned with an American flag. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including: clusters of men, women, and children pedestrians walking on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street; and an African American paper boy running among the crowds., Vignette in the Philadelphia, western & southern trade journal. Illustrated supplement. (P.9384a-w), Accessioned 1992., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active from about 1853 until 1871.
- Creator
- Van Ingen & Snyder, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Ph Pr - Government Buildings [P.9384l]
- Title
- Girard Bank
- Description
- View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]
- Title
- Girard Bank
- Description
- View looking northeast from Dock Street showing Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States (built 1795-1797, Samuel Blodgett, architect), at 116-120 South Third Street. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank. Includes adjacent building (114 South Third) tenanted by practical lithographer Theodore Leonhardt and The City Item newspaper office. Signage for Goodyear's Rubber Warehouse adorns the building. Also shows slabs of stone laying on the sidewalk beside a telegraph pole near the bank; a horse-drawn milk delivery wagon stopped across the street; and a group of men sitting on the steps of the bank., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Banks [(8)1322.F.11d]
- Title
- Aaron Wolff's old wine store, &c on the northwest corner of Chestnut and Seventh Street
- Description
- Views showing the former wine shop being tenanted by Mahlon Warne, rifle and pistol gallery, and J.E. Gould, pianos, at 701 Chestnut Street. Also shows a partial view of John Sturdivant's lodging house (703 Chestnut); a vendor stand, horse-drawn carts and wagons, and signage for Lacey & Phillips, saddlery, painted on their building on South Seventh Street. Wolff operated as a wine merchant in the 1840s., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.70., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.70., Newspaper clippings dated April 1859 pasted on mount of (3)2526.F.70 reporting the demolition of the building., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 70. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., One of the images [(3)2526.F.70] reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 63., Arcadia caption text: ... This image, one of approximately 120 views shot by Richards, was taken in April 1859, only days before the demolition of this building at the northwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets. The building’s last tenants included a wine shop, a piano store, and on the top story a shooting gallery with bulls-eye targets affixed to the windows.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- April 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - W [(6)1322.F.113f; (3)2526.F.70 (Poulson)]
- Title
- [M'Clees & Germon, daguerreotype rooms, 182 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Exterior view of the studio located on the south side of Chestnut Street between 7th and 8th Streets showing the two daguerreotypists posed in a large open window with a camera and screens. View also shows the lower tenant, Joseph S. Natt's looking glass shop; partial views of adjacent businesses, including a fancy goods store (180 and 184 Chestnut); and displays of merchandise in the shop windows. The partnership between James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon lasted from 1846 to 1855, and was located at this address from 1851 to 1853., Title supplied by cataloguer., McClees 1853-3., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Philadelphia views., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), entry #113., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
- Creator
- M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1853
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Businesses [(6)1322.F.163e]
- Title
- [Bullock mansion, North Third Street above Market Street, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- View looking southeast showing the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock (32 N. 3rd, pre-consolidation) tenanted by the businesses of James L. Rahn, hosiery & gloves, and John M. Ford, saddlery hardware, at 46-48 N. 3rd Street above Market Street. Building heavily adorned with signage. Also shows adjacent businesses including William P. Wilstach & Co. (38 N. 3rd), saddlery hardware; Yard, Gillmore & Co., silk goods (40-42 N. 3rd); and Lippincott, Coffin & Co., dry goods and trimmings (50 N. 3rd). Crates, carts, and horse saddlery equipment line the sidewalk., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso: Bullock's old mansion North 3d., Date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 95. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 24., Arcadia caption text: Many structures on the eastern side of Center City, near the Delaware River, were originally constructed as residences and later adapted for commercial use. This photograph, taken in May of 1859, depicts the former mansion of wool merchant Benjamin Bullock on Third Street [above] Market Street. Modified with display windows at street level, two businesses - James L. Rahn’s hosiery and glove shop, and John M. Ford’s saddlery and hardware store - occupy the building. Other homes on this block had already been replaced by taller commercial buildings.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- May 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - B [(2)2526.F.95 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f95.jpg
- Title
- [Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); H. A. Osterle & Co., trimmings; and Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 83., Arcadia caption text: In 1855 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania opened a new hall on the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, the site of an earlier Masonic Hall. The Masons occupied the top three floors of the Gothic brownstone building, designed by Philadelphia architect and Mason Samuel Sloan, and rented the first floor out to commercial tenants. Initial enthusiasm for the building faded quickly as problems with water in the basement and poorly ventilated rooms became apparent. By the time of this c. 1868 view, a Masonic committee had described the building as “a gross failure both in its plan and its construction.”, Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27b]
- Title
- Continental Hotel Philada
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets (824-838 Chestnut). Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop. View also shows adjacent businesses including publishers and booksellers Porter & Coates operating from the former building of J.E. Caldwell & Co. built 1858 after the designs of McArthur. (822 Chestnut); John Wanamaker & Co., luxury clothing store, established 1869 (818 Chestnut); James S. Earle, looking glasses and picture frame manufactory (816 Chestnut), and John W. Scott, shirt manufactory (814 Chestnut). Includes horse-drawn wagons travelling the street and a partial view of the north side of the block., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & Smith., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Bartlett & Smith, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1869
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29h]
- Title
- Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
- Description
- Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]
- Title
- [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street]
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s., Title supplied by cataloguer., Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]
- Title
- Market St[reet] west from 10th [Street]
- Description
- View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market Street; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publication information from duplicate stereograph. [P.9047.94], Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1874]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.53]
- Title
- [Graff House, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the house owned by Jacob Graff in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Signage covers the building advertising current tenants, including B. Crawford's wholesale retail fashionable clothing emporium; William Hicks, tailor; William Brown, clothing; and D.E. Thompson's Book and Job Printing Office. Also shows adjacent businesses, including William Jordan's Shoe Warehouse at 232 Market Street(pre-consolidation). The building was razed circa 1883., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Manuscript note on mount: S.W. Cor. 7th and Market., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., *McClees 1853-2., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
- Creator
- McClees & Germon, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1854
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.17]
- Title
- Smoke Day's standard of the world Durham smoking tobacco
- Description
- Racist advertisement for J.R. Day and Brother smoking tobacco depicting a horse race between two African American men jockeys, portrayed in caricature. In the right, the jockey, attired in a blue and yellow cap and long-sleeved shirt, yellow pants, and riding boots, grimaces as he holds the reins to his white horse. The winning jockey, attired in a red and white striped cap and long-sleeved shirt, yellow pants, and riding boots, grasps the reins as his body lifts off of his brown horse. He screams, “Bound to win!” In the background, white men, all smoking pipes with "Day's Standard" tobacco, watch the race from a spectators' box behind a fence inscribed, "They all smoke it?" James R. Day left W.T. Blackwell & Co. in 1878 and applied for a patent for his smokeless tobacco in 1879., Title from item., Date inferred from operation of the advertised business., Text printed below image: Manufactured by Jas. R. Day, Late of the firm of W.T. Blackwell & Co. for J.R. Day & Bro, Durham, N.C., Gift of Carol Baldridge, 1997., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Advertisements [P.9525]
- Title
- Adams Tampico Chewing gum. Each wrapper has a different Picture and joke, from "The Judge."
- Description
- Gum wrapper for Adams & Co. depicting a cartoon originally published in the satiric magazine "The Judge" and showing two African American men (Mister Johnson and Brother Snow) portrayed in racist caricature conversing in the vernacular on a dirt path after church services. The man in the left has a beard and is attired in a long overcoat, pants, and a top hat. He holds a "prayer" book and umbrella under his left arm and gestures to the other gentleman with his right arm. The gentleman in the right has a beard, wears glasses, and is attired in an over coat, striped pants, and top hat. He holds an umbrella as a walking stick in his left hand and carries a book under his right arm. He looks toward the gesturing man. Part of a wooden fence and skyscape are also visible. The Brooklyn gum manufacturer Adams & Co. operated circa 1871-1899. In 1899 Adams merged with six other chewing gum companies to form American Chicle Company., Title from item., Date inferred from content reproduced from The Judge., Caption: A Miracle. "What wuz de tex' dis mornin', Mister Johnson? I wuz too late."/"It wuz about de meracles, Brother Snow. Whar de Lor' fed seven people on five t'ousand baskets of fish."/ "I don't see any meracle about dat."/"Oh, de meracle am, dey all didn't bust.", Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - Packaging - A [113538.D]
- Title
- The lovers quarrel. "Now, Blanche, don't!" Clarence Brooks & Co. varnishes. Clarence Brooks & Co. fine coach, railway & pianoforte varnishes, cor. West & West 12th St. N.Y
- Description
- Trade card promoting varnish manufacturer Clarence Brooks and Co. and depicting a racist, genre scene of an African American man and woman during a winter promenade in the snowy countryside based on Sol Eytinge's "Lover's Quarrel-Now, Blanche, Don't" originally published in Harper’s Weekly in 1879. In the left, a man stands with his arms stretched down, palms out, and his eyes pointed to a woman to the right. He says "now, Blanche, don't!" The woman, her back turned to the man, walks away. The man is attired in knee-length black boots; yellow pants; a rumpled, green coat; blue scarf; top hat; and gloves. The woman is attired in black boots; a blue dress with a straight skirt and pink sash that billows behind her waist; white fur vest; and a short-brimmed, black hat with white fur trim and a feather. She holds a white fur muff in one hand and lifts the bottom of her dress up in the other. In the distant background is a house and trees. Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In 1881, the firm issued a calendar illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business and visual content., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clarence [P.2017.95.27]
- Title
- Spoiling the slide Clarence Brooks & Co. fine coach varnishes cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York
- Description
- Trade card promoting varnish manufacturer Clarence Brooks & Co. and depicting a racist, genre scene of an anguished-looking African American man clerk “spoiling the slide” on a snow-covered sidewalk. Shows the man, attired in a blue shirt; red and yellow striped apron; green pants; and black boots, leaning over and using a scoop and red pan to pour salt onto a bare track in the snow-covered sidewalk outside a storefront. In the near left background, two smiling African American boys throw snowballs at the clerk. The boy in the left, attired in black boots; brown pants; blue jacket and hat; and red scarf around his head, holds a snowball in both hands at his waist. The boy in the right, attired in black boots; blue pants, shirt, and hat; and green jacket pitches back his right arm, snowball in his hand. In the far right of the image, a white boy, attired in brown boots and pants; blue jacket and hat; and a red scarf wrapped over his head and tied under his chin, and his hands in his jacket pockets, walks on the sidewalk. He walks past an iron railing in front of the store that is adorned with a sign reading "Clarence Brooks & Co. Fine Coach Varnishes, Cor. West & West 12th Sts. New York." Clarence Brooks established his varnish business in 1859 as Brooks and Fitzgerald, later Clarence Brooks & Co. In 1881, the firm issued a calendar illustrated with African American caricatures in genre scenes., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business and visual content., Illegible signature written on verso., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy [P.2017.95.29].
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clarence [P.2017.95.28]
- Title
- Clark's mile-end 60 spool cotton
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Clark Thread Company and depicting a genre scene of an African American man and woman in conversation on a country road. The man and woman are portrayed with exaggerated features and speaking in the vernacular. Shows, in the left, the man standing on a dirt road and holding a piece of thread attached to a giant spool labeled "Clark's mile-end 60 spool thread." He is attired in black boots; yellow striped pants with patches on the knees and rolled to his calves; a white shirt; a red vest; and a green jacket. His straw hat is upturned on the ground beside him. In the right, an African American woman sits in a horse-drawn wagon holding the reins to a white horse. She tells the man "luck I got a spool to mend yer clos' with." She is attired in a yellow head kerchief and a red dress with yellow trim at the neck. The George A. Clark & Brother Company, manufactory of embroidery and sewing thread, was founded in 1863 in Newark, N.J. The firm was renamed Clark & Co. in 1879, and in the 1880s created a six-cord, soft finished thread called "Our New Thread" or "O.N.T." The business merged with J. & P. Coats in 1896, which lead to a series of mergers with fourteen other companies. Into the 21st century, the company continues to manufacture thread under the name Coats & Clark., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Text on recto: Ef dat mile end thread don't hold, dere ain't anything- lucky I got a spool to mend yer old clos' with., Advertising text printed on verso: Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton is the best for hand and machine sewing. Clark's Mile-End Colors are made expressly to match the leading shades of dress goods, and are unsurpassed both in quality and color. Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton is six-cord in all numbers to 100 inclusive., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clark [P.2017.95.33]
- Title
- Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes. Presented by Chas. T. Croft, Little Falls, N.Y
- Description
- Trade card promoting shoemaker Edwin C. Burt and depicting a racist, whimsical scene of two African American boys carrying a white girl in a “sedan chair” in the shape of a shoe. In the left, a boy attired in red, sarong-like shorts holds the red, back handles of the sedan over his shoulders. In the right, a boy attired in yellow, sarong-like shorts with black stripes holds the red, front handles over his shoulders. The girl sits with her legs stretched out. She is attired in a red headband that wraps around her brown hair styled in a bun; a yellow, short-sleeved dress with a white collar and blue stripes at the sleeves and around the bottom; and a gold bracelet. She holds a matching yellow and blue fan, possibly of peacock feathers. The sedan chair is depicted as a black woman's dress shoe with a heel and is adorned with a red bow at the front with a gold and diamond circular embellishment. A red canopy with green fringe trim attached to the back of the shoe shields the girl. In the background, mountains and a pink sky are visible. Edwin C. Burt (1818-1884) began his career in boot and shoemaking with his father in Hartford, Connecticut in 1838. He moved his business to New York City in 1848 and founded Edwin C. Burt & Co. in 1860. He patented an improvement to increase his shoes' durability in 1874., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Text on the recto: Over., Advertising text printed on verso: Chas. T Croft, dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, Little Fall, N.Y. Has a choice line of Burt's goods, manufactured expressively for him by Edwin C. Burt, New York. Caution: the genuine Burt shoe has the name Edwin C. Burt stamped in full on the lining and sole of e[ach] shoe, and are warranted. Over., Contains Edwin C. Burt trademark on verso depicting an ornament composed of an illustration of a circle of exposition seals where Burt had won awards, including the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy with a variant verso [P.2017.95.20].
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Burt [P.2017.95.19]
- Title
- Carr & Murray, carpets, furniture & bedding, 61 & 63 Myrtle Avenue. Three doors from Jay Street, B[rooklyn]
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Carr & Murray, dealers in household furnishings, and depicting trompe l'oeil image with an African American boy portrayed with exaggerated features and bust length. The boy is depicted by pulling down the left corner of the card. He points at a partially-visible rabbit who hops away in the lower right. The boy is attired in white hat and a blue shirt with a red and white striped collar. James J. Carr and Lindley H. Murray of Carr & Murray owned a store selling household furnishings at 61 & 63 Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. from circa 1879 to circa 1891., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and visual content., Right edge of the card is trimmed., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Carr & Murray [P.2017.95.23]
- Title
- Granite floor paint. Manf'd only by Acme white lead & color works, Detroit, Mich
- Description
- Trade card containing two panels and depicting a contrived, racist scene of two African American women domestics talking to each other from the kitchens of the respective, separate homes in which they work. The women are portrayed with caricaturized features and speak in the vernacular. They are attired in head coverings, sheath dresses with rolled-up sleeves, aprons, stockings, and slipper shoes. The depicted kitchens contain a sink, pans stored on hooks or a shelf, and a stove. In the left panel, the woman frowns and holds a kettle in one hand and the side of her skirt in the other. She stands "like a monument" on a floor "painted tree days now" and marked with her footprints. In the background, a white man, his mouth open in a shocked expression, and attired in a suit opens the door to the kitchen. In the right panel, the woman dances with one leg raised and her hands on her hips on a floor with "hard 'nuf" Granite Paint. In the background, a smiling white man attired in a suit looks on behind an open door to the kitchen. Separating the panels is a column of red cans labeled "Granite Floor Paint." Acme White Lead and Color Works was incorporated in Detroit in December 1884, by H. Kirke White, A.E.F. White, and W.L. Davies. In March 1920, Sherwin-Williams of Cleveland purchased the company and renamed the brand Acme Quality Paints. The firm continued under that name into the 21st century., Title from item., Text printed on recto: G'way chile! Dis floor been painted tree days an now I'se stuck fas' like a monument, why dont you use de Granite Paint? Law sakes only painted las' night and dat Granite Paint am hard 'nuf dis mawnin fur a breakdown., Advertising text printed on verso: Granite Floor Paint. You have undoubtedly in your experience, had an occasion to paint a floor, steps or a piazza. If such is the case, the chances are that you realize that the same paint used for painting the exterior of houses will not answer to paint floors, yet up to the time we invented the Granite Floor Paint that was what must be used. There are three great faults with the paints heretofore used, namely: First, they require a long time to dry, which causes great inconvenience; second, they never dry perfectly hard, and consequently will not wear; third, cold water will stain, hot water blister, and soap will to a certain extent remove them. After many long and costly experiments we succeeded in perfecting the Granite Floor Paint, and present it to the public with the assurance that it has none of the above faults. It is sure to become as great a favorite as our other popular specialty, "Neal's Carriage Paint," which is prepared ready for use in eight beautiful colors, and renders the re-painting of a buggy possible at a cost of not to exceed one dollar. Acme White Lead and Color Works, Sole Manufacturers, Detroit, Michigan., Distributor’s name on verso: For sale by Thorne & Rogers, Troy, N.Y., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Acme [P.2017.95.1]
- Title
- The Universal clothes wringer
- Description
- Metamorphic trade card promoting the American Wringer Company's Universal Wringer. Depicts a racist "before and after" scene with and without the product. The before scene shows an African American laundress "Dinah" wringing clothes by hand over a tub. She states in vernacular speech that "de wringing am awful." A white woman chastises her to "look at these torn clothes." She holds up a square shaped cloth with tears. A clock is visible in the background. The women are shown as bust-length. Dinah wears a kerchief, an open collared shirt, and her sleeves are rolled up. The after scene shows a smiling "Dinah," wringing laundry with a "Universal" clothes wringer under the happy gaze of her employer. The women reach a hand out to one another. Dinah wears a high ruffled collar shirtwaist with a bow at her neck, long sleeves, an apron, and kerchief. A clock rests on a sideboard in the background. The American Wringer Company was established about 1861 and operated until at least the early 20th century. The company often provided a clock as a premium to purchase their laundry equipment., Title from item., Date inferred from attire of figures depicted., Text printed on recto: Oh mistis de wringing am awful, always tear de clothes 'spect dat I neber get through. What Dinah, six o'clock and not done yet! And look at these torn clothes. "What Dinah! Finished washing so soon! Why it's only three o'clock." "Hi golly! Mistis, been done dese two hours dis chile hab no more trouble, since you done got dis wringer. Neber tear de clothes neder., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal Wringer has the following points of superiority. 1. Rolls of solid white rubber. 2. Rowell's double cog-wheels. 3. Two independent pressure screws. 4. Double cogs at both ends of each roll. 5. Folding apron or clothes guide. 6. Rocking springs of wood and rubber., Distributor's name on verso: J. Russell & Co., Dealers in hardware, carpenters' and machinists' tools, 23 Dwight and 23 Race Streets, Holyoke, Mass., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy with a variant distributor [113420.D].
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection -American [P.2017.95.6]
- Title
- Kendall's Spavin Cure
- Description
- Trade card promoting B.J. Kendall Company, manufacturer of proprietary medicine, and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey portrayed with exaggarated features. Shows the jockey at the reins of a brown race horse running at full speed, its legs lifted off the ground, and two of its shoes flying through the air. The jockey grips the reins of the horse over which he is prone and suspended above. He exclaims in the vernacular, "I only ’plied jist six bottles of Kendall’s Spavin Cure...so he can go in 2:05 3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16." The jockey is attired in a red buttoned jacket and red plaid pants. His red and white striped jockey's cap and one of his black boots have flown off and trail behind him. In the background a wooden fence lines the grounds. An African American man with exaggarated features attired in blue pants and a red plaid shirt and with his mouth open and arms raised in alarm stands within the entryway to the fence. A wooden sign posted on the fence reads, "2.05 3/8." Burney James Kendall (1845-1922) founded the B.J. Kendall Company in Enosburg Falls, Vermont in 1879. Kendall Company was incorporated in 1883. The success of Kendall's Spavin Cure spurred the firms line of products to expand to proprietary medicines for other animals in addition to people. The Company declined and closed in 1957 following the invention of automobiles., Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and genre of print., Text printed on recto: "Hi! Dat hoss can jist fly now. I only 'plied jist six bottles of Kendall's Spavin Cure, and it hab taken off all dem four ringbones, two spavins, one curb, two splints, one capped hock and a shoe bile, so he can go in 2:05 3-8. Gwine to put on two bottles more, and den he can go in jist 1:51 7-16. Dat boy nebber shall fly wid dat hoss agin, for he am liable to fly off de track if he 'creases dat speed.", Copyright secured., Advertising text printed on verso: Kendall's Spavin Cure. The great success which has attended the introduction of Kendall's Spavin Cure, in all parts of the United States, has never been equalled, and it is now considered by the very best veterinary surgeons and most extensive horse-owners in the country to be the greatest discovery in veterinary science of the nineteenth century. It is giving the very best of satisfaction wherever urged. A few reasons why: 1. It does not blister or cause any sore, which makes it a desirable liniment for man or beast. 2. It is sure in its effect. 3. It cures spavins, splints, ring-bone, curb, callous, sprains, swellings, galls, lameness, from whatever cause, in any part of the body or limbs. 4. As a household liniment it has no equal. Its effect on human flesh is marvellous. It is used with the most gratifying results in all cases of lameness or any deep-seated pains, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, corns, bunions, frost bites, felons, chillblains, burns or any pain, bruise, cut or lameness which are not affected in the least by ordinary liniments. Kendall's Spavin Cure. Kendall's Spavin Cure, refined expressively for Human Flesh, in red wrappers, price $.50. Kendall's Spavin Cure, in light wrappers, for Animals, price $1.00. The Spavin Cure in light wrappers can be used on human flesh with perfect safety, if desired. B.J. Kendall & Co., Proprietors. Enosburgh Falls, Vt., U.S.A. Sold by all druggists., Testimonial printed on verso: Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 13, 1880. Dr. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: -- I have a very fine mare that has had a bone spavin for a long time. I tried everything man could devise to cure it, but all in vain, and was about to give it up, when a friend of mine in this city came to me and recommended Kendall's Spavin Cure, which I tried with grand results, removing that bone clear and clean; and then I sent twenty-five cents to you for one of your Illustrated Horse Books, and I think there is no better book printed on the horse and his diseases. I have taken great interest in it, and have since sold eighteen copies for you to my neighbors, and will try and do what good I can by getting them for others. Yours truly, G.W. Miller., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - BJ Kendall [P.2017.95.10]
- Title
- Kendall's Spavin Cure
- Description
- Trade card promoting B.J. Kendall Company, manufacturer of proprietary medicine and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey portrayed with exaggerated features. The jockey sits atop a brown, galloping racehorse. He is attired in a red buttoned jacket, red and white striped pants and hat, and black boots. In the left, an African American groomsman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in white pants and a collared yellow shirt with black dots, and black shoes, stands with one hand raised and another holding a white towel. He speaks in the vernacular that he "nebber will let dat pickaninny ride dat yar hoss agin unless he stops usin' Kendall's Spavin Cure." In the background, a fence marked in red writing "Kendall's Spavin Cure" runs alongthe track. In the right, behind the fence, a white man in a lookout tower holds out his arm and shows a paper marked, "4.17 1/4." Burney James Kendall (1845-1922) founded the B.J. Kendall Company in Enosburg Falls, Vermont in 1879. Kendall Company was incorporated in 1883. The success of Kendall’s Spavin Cure spurred the firms line of products to expand to proprietary medicines for other animals in addition to people. The Company declined and closed in 1957 following the invention of automobiles., Title from item., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business and the genre of print., Text printed on recto: "Golly! I nebber will let dat pickaninny ride dat yar hoss agin unless he stops usin' Kendall's Spavin Cure, 'cause it limbers him up so. In all my 'sperience in the hoss line I nebber seed sich 'provement in an animile afore. Facts am stranger dan friction." Advertising text printed on verso: Kendall's Spavin Cure. The most successful remedy ever discovered, as it is certain in its effects and does not blister. Also excellent for human flesh. Read proof below., Testimonial printed on verso:From Col. L.T. Foster. Youngstown, Ohio, May 10, 1880. Dr. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: I had a very valuable Hambletonian colt which I prized very highly; he had a large bone spavin on one joint and a small one on the other, which made him very lame. I had him under the charge of two veterinary surgeons who failed to cure him. I was only one day reading the advertisement of Kendall's Spavin Cure in the Chicago Express. I determined at once to try it, and got our druggists here to send for it; they ordered three bottles; I took them all and thought I would give it a thorough trial; I used it according to directions, and the fourth day the colt ceased to be lame, and the lumps have disappeared. I used but one bottle and the colt's limbs are as free from lumps and as smooth as any horse in the state. He is entirely cured. The cure was so remarkable that I let two of my neighbors have the remaining two bottles, who are now using it. Very respectfully, L.T. Foster. Kendall's Spavin Cure on Human Flesh. Waterloo, Ind., Sept. 7, 1881. Boyer & Campbell, Gentlemen: The bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cure I purchased of you has cured me of a very lame back, (after using almost everything else) the relief was almost instant. I put only a very little on at a time and rubbed it in well. I consider it the best liniment for man or horse extant. I would not do without it for ten times the amount it costs. Yours truly, Hiram Leib., Testimonial printed on verso: Wilton, Minn., Jan. 11, 1881. B.J. Kendall & Co., Gents: Having got a horse book of you by mail a year ago, the contents of which persuaded me to try Kendall's Spavin Cure on the hind leg of one of my horses, which was badly swollen and could not be reduced by any other remedy. I got two bottles of Kendall's Spavin Cure of Preston & Ludduth, druggists of Waseca, which completely cured my horse. about five years ago, I had a three years old colt swelled very bad. I used your remedy as given in your book without rowelling, and I must say to you credit that the colt is entirely cured, which is a surprise not only to myself, but also to my neighbors. You sent me the book for the trifling sum of twenty-five cents, and if I could not get another like it, I would not take twenty-five dollars for it. Yours truly, Geo. Mathews. Kendall's Spavin Cure is put up in two sizes. Refined, expressively for human flesh, in red wrappers, price $.50. In light wrappers, for animals, price, 1.00. That in light wrappers can be used with perfect safety on human flesh, if desired. B.J. Kendall & Co., Proprietors, Enosburg Falls, Vt., U.S.A. Sold by all druggists., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - BJ Kendall [P.2017.95.11]
- Title
- Granite floor paint. Manf'd only by Acme white lead & color works, Detroit, Mich
- Description
- Trade card containing two panels and depicting a contrived, racist scene of two African American women domestics talking to each other from the kitchens of the respective, separate homes in which they work. The women are portrayed with caricaturized features and speak in the vernacular. They are attired in head coverings, sheath dresses with rolled-up sleeves, aprons, stockings, and slipper shoes. The depicted kitchens contain a sink, pans stored on hooks or a shelf, and a stove. In the left panel, the woman frowns and holds a kettle in one hand and the side of her skirt in the other. She stands "like a monument" on a floor "painted tree days now" and marked with her footprints. In the background, a white man, his mouth open in a shocked expression, and attired in a suit opens the door to the kitchen. In the right panel, the woman dances with one leg raised and her hands on her hips on a floor with "hard 'nuf" Granite Paint. In the background, a smiling white man attired in a suit looks on behind an open door to the kitchen. Separating the panels is a column of red cans labeled "Granite Floor Paint." Acme White Lead and Color Works was incorporated in Detroit in December 1884, by H. Kirke White, A.E.F. White, and W.L. Davies. In March 1920, Sherwin-Williams of Cleveland purchased the company and renamed the brand Acme Quality Paints. The firm continued under that name into the 21st century., Title from item., Text printed on recto: G'way chile! Dis floor been painted tree days an now I'se stuck fas' like a monument, why dont you use de Granite Paint? Law sakes only painted las' night and dat Granite Paint am hard 'nuf dis mawnin fur a breakdown., Advertising text printed on verso: Granite Floor Paint. You have undoubtedly in your experience, had an occasion to paint a floor, steps or a piazza. If such is the case, the chances are that you realize that the same paint used for painting the exterior of houses will not answer to paint floors, yet up to the time we invented the Granite Floor Paint that was what must be used. There are three great faults with the paints heretofore used, namely: First, they require a long time to dry, which causes great inconvenience; second, they never dry perfectly hard, and consequently will not wear; third, cold water will stain, hot water blister, and soap will to a certain extent remove them. After many long and costly experiments we succeeded in perfecting the Granite Floor Paint, and present it to the public with the assurance that it has none of the above faults. It is sure to become as great a favorite as our other popular specialty, "Neal's Carriage Paint," which is prepared ready for use in eight beautiful colors, and renders the re-painting of a buggy possible at a cost of not to exceed one dollar. Acme White Lead and Color Works, Sole Manufacturers, Detroit, Michigan., Distributor’s name on verso: For sale by Thorne & Rogers, Troy, N.Y., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Acme [P.2017.95.1]
- Title
- Wedding of the twins
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting stove manufacturer Cribben, Sexton & Co. and depicting a genre scene with African American caricatures originally created for Harper’s Weekly in 1878 by Sol Eytinge that satirized the courtship and marriage of and the start of families by "The Twins." Figures are portrayed with exaggerated features. Shows the sisters getting married a parlor. The twins are attired in white, short-sleeved wedding dresses with ruffles at the bottom and veils. The groom at the left, a squat man, is attired in beige pants; a white waistcoat with a gold pocketwatch chain; a collared shirt; and a black jacket, while the groom at the right, a tall man, is attired in blue striped pants; a white shirt; and a black tie and jacket. An African American reverend attired in a black suit stands in front of them and officiates while holding an open bible. The twin's parents stand behind the couples. The father is attired in white pants, a shirt, and a waistcoat, with a black jacket and bowtie. The mother is attired in a brown dress with a white hat decorated with a bow and sash. Behind them watching the nuptials is a woman, attired in a white mob cap and a blue dress, seated in a wooden chair. She holds a boy in her lap, attired in a green pants and a beige jacket. Three other people view the ceremony through a doorway. In the left is a woman attired in a beige dress with a white apron and a cap; in the center is a man attired in a blue collared shirt; and in the right is a woman attired in a beige dress. A table with a cake and a decanter with glasses is visible behind the reverend. Henry Cribben and James A. Sexton founded the stove manufactory Cribben, Sexton & Co. in Chicago in 1873. The Company closed in 1965., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Davison & Steinhilfer, Dealers in stoves and hardware, and a full line of universal perfect & elegant stoves and ranges always on hand, Strawberry Point, Iowa., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Cribben, Sexton & Co. [P.2017.95.38]
- Title
- Use Dannemiller's Cordova coffee, in 1 pound papers, because it's the best
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Dannemiller Coffee Company and depicting a genre scene with an African American boy jockey, white children, and a horse. In the left, the jockey, attired in riding boots; white breeches; a white shirt and red vest; and a red and white jockey cap, stands beside a brown horse onto which he helps a white boy mount. He holds the bridle in his left hand and leans down to help the boy place his foot into the stirrup with his right hand. In the center, the white boy, attired in a Fauntleroy outfit with black boots and hat, grips the saddle to hoist himself up onto the horse. In the right, a smiling white girl with long, brown hair looks at the viewer. She descends a set of stairs holding the railing. She is attired in black shoes, a yellow dress with blue trim, stockings, and a bow in her hair. She carries a doll costumed in a red and white dress with matching red shoes and hat. A greyhound faces the girl at the base of the stairs. Edward Dannemiller (1850-1939) and his son Albert J. Dannemiller (1879-1955) founded Dannemiller Coffee Company in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1904. The Company operated through the mid-twentieth century., Title from item., Place of publication from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: A fair trial is all we ask, and we are sure of the result, if you take quality into consideration. It's merits are unequaled. Don't be deceived judge fore yourself. Lasst euch nicht batriigen urtheilt fiir euch selbst. A beautiful picture with each package., Manuscript note on verso: Stella Leonard., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1910]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dannemiller [P.2017.95.39]
- Title
- Dixon's carburet of iron stove polish
- Description
- Trade card promoting Joseph Dixon Crucible Company's stove polish and depicting a racist caricature of an African American woman nanny at work. Shows the nanny smiling, holding, and scrubbing an unclothed white girl, who is coated in black stove polish along her right side. The long, brown haired girl wears a red headband and is partially covered by a white cloth draped around by the nanny. The nanny uses a scrub brush under the right arm of the girl. The girl stands, her right leg raised, upon a table covered with a yellow tablecloth and stained by the polish. She looks down and touches the nanny's face with her right hand. She places her left hand over the woman's hand on her left side. The nanny is attired in a white head kerchief with red polka dots; a yellow short-sleeved shirt with red stripes; and a blue skirt. On the table is a plate; a brush; and boxes labeled Dixon's Stove Polish. Image also includes, in the left background, a stove with a steaming copper kettle and a partial view of a stove pipe and checkered flooring. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, established by Joseph Dixon in Salem, Mass. in 1827, produced graphite pencils, crucibles and stove polish, and relocated to Jersey City, N.J. in 1847. In 1868, the firm name changed from Joseph Dixon & Co. to the Jos. Dixon Crucible Co. In 1870 the firm won a trademark case against a Philadelphia competitor selling J.C. Dixon Stove Polish., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Established 1827. Dixon's stove polish; over fifty years in the market. Neat; quick; brilliant, and lasting. No dust. No odor. Nothing will make a stovd (sic) so bright and cheerful for so long a time as the Dixon stove polish. It is by far the cheapest in use, in the long run. Buy it. Try it. Take no other. Pressed into a neat quarter-pound packet, absolutely free of adulteration. Six millions sold in 1881. Jos. Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N.J., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds duplicate copies [1975.F.235; P.9577.14; P.9599].
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dixon [P.2017.95.44]
- Title
- Dixon's carburet of iron stove polish
- Description
- Trade card promoting Joseph Dixon Crucible Company's stove polish and depicting a racist caricature of an African American woman nanny at work. Shows the nanny smiling, holding, and scrubbing an unclothed white girl, who is coated in black stove polish along her right side. The long, brown haired girl wears a red headband and is partially covered by a white cloth draped around by the nanny. The nanny uses a scrub brush under the right arm of the girl. The girl stands, her right leg raised, upon a table covered with a yellow tablecloth and stained by the polish. She looks down and touches the nanny's face with her right hand. She places her left hand over the woman's hand on her left side. The nanny is attired in a white head kerchief with red polka dots; a yellow short-sleeved shirt with red stripes; and a blue skirt. On the table is a plate; a brush; and boxes labeled Dixon's Stove Polish. Image also includes, in the left background, a stove with a steaming kettle and a partial view of a stove pipe and checkered flooring. The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, established by Joseph Dixon in Salem, Mass. in 1827, produced graphite pencils, crucibles and stove polish, and relocated to Jersey City, N.J. in 1847. In 1868, the firm name changed from Joseph Dixon & Co. to the Jos. Dixon Crucible Co. In 1870 the firm won a trademark case against a Philadelphia competitor selling J.C. Dixon Stove Polish., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: 57 years in market Dixon's pure carburet of iron. Stove polish. The oldest. The best. The quickest. The neatest. Ask your grocer for it., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dixon [P.2017.95.45]
- Title
- Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting the Domestic Sewing Machine Company and depicting a comic genre scene of an older African American man peddler mistaken as a suitor. In the center, the older, balding peddler speaks to an African American family at the door of their cottage house. The man is portrayed with exaggerated features, wears spectacles, and is attired in a purple coat; a white shirt; yellow pants; and brown shoes. A goat eats red cloth pulled out from underneath his coat. On the ground in front of him is his top hat turned upside-down. Papers are placed inside of it. He leans forward to speak with the African American woman in the doorway. His hands are out like he is displaying an object. The woman wears mammy-like attire of a beige head kerchief; a yellow shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows; a blue shirt; and a white apron. She holds a broom. Behind her is another woman attired in a green dress and head kerchief. In the left are a young woman and a girl. The young woman is attired in a pink dress with a green ruffle at the bottom and cut-out shoulders, matching pink stockings, and a bow in her hair. She coquettishly holds a fan ornately decorated with pink flowers to the side of her face. The girl to her left is barefoot and attired in a white dress. In the right background are sunflowers behind a fence and the peddler's horse-drawn wagon loaded with boxes out of view of the family. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date inferred from history of the advertised business., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: M.E. Hartzler's "Domestic" & "Royal St John" sewing machine office. In Odd Fellows Hall cor. Geo. & King Sts, (opposite Reevers tavern,) York, PA. Anything pertaining to sewing machines of every kind and make, furnished at this office. Repairing of all kinds of sewing machines a specialty., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds duplicate copy [P.2017.95.48] and another with variant distributor [P.2017.95.47].
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Domestic [P.2017.95.46]
- Title
- Bloch. Bros. West Virgina mail pouch tobacco I tell you breddern, it pays you to read erbout W.V.A Mail Pouch terbacker on de oder side dis yer card
- Description
- Trade card promoting the Bloch Brothers' chewing tobacco. Depicts a racist caricature of an older African American man tobacco peddler portrayed with exaggerated features and selling his product in a clumsy manner on a stage. He looks flabbergasted, stands behind a small table with two leaves drawn open, and holds a green umbrella over his head with his right hand. He holds the top of the table with his other hand while a pitcher, cup of water, and a lit candle in a candlestick fall off of the table or fly in the air. An illustrated package of "Bloch Brothers' Mail Pouch Tobacco" falls toward the audience. On the stagefloor in front of the table is a brown bottle with a lit candle, a hurricane lantern, a candle in a candlestick, and a brimmed hat. Behind the salesman in the right is an open bag with a boot and clothes spilling out. A clock hangs on the back wall. In the foreground, the backs of four men’s heads in the audience are visible. The white-haired salesman is attired in a red, plaid suit; a red tie waving in the air; white collared shirt; black boots; and spectacles. Brothers Aaron and Samuel Bloch founded the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1879 by manufacturing cigars. They created Mail Pouch chewing tobacco by flavoring and packaging leftover cigar clippings. Bloch Brothers was sold in 1969 to the General Cigar and Tobacco Company, which became a division of Culbro in 1978. The Company was acquired by the Helme Tobacco Company in 1983 and later changed its name to Swisher International. Swisher continues to produce Mail Pouch tobacco into the 21st century., Title from item., Date inferred from the history of the advertised business and the attire of figures depicted., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: Jacob G. Shirk, 886 N. Christian St., Lancaster, PA., Stamp partially visible on recto: Note: [?] Jacob Shirk, [308?] N. Christian Street., Advertising text printed on verso: To consumers of smoking and chewing tobacco: There has for years been a demand for a superior smoking tobacco, something cheap and meritorious, reverse from most brands, which are only manufactured for the profits derived by the manufacturer and the dealer, with no satisfaction to the consumer. It is a reform in Tobaccos, no stems to smoke nor mysterious compounds to chew. The qualities that recommend "Mail Pouch" Tobacco strongest as an article of merit, are:-- 1st. That it is a combination of Long Cut manipulated Virginia, Kentucky, Connecticut and Pennsylvania Leaf, by our own and original process, which makes it a cool smoke and a lasting chew. 2nd. In cheap tobaccos the smoker has been so long dosed with doctored, perfumed stuff, flattened stems mixed in with common Tobacco, to get something free from noxious flavorings and adulterations, is a result that must be appreciated. 3d. We claim that it is, without exception, the best and cheapest Tobacco ever offered to the consumer. The popularity of the W. Va. Mail Pouch Smoking and Chewing Tobacco is sufficient recommendation. It has attained its success and demand on its merits and sterling worth, it therefore has many imitators, but no equal. Bloch Bros., M'f'rs, Wheeling, W.Va., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Bloch [P.2017.95.15]
- Title
- Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes
- Description
- Trade card promoting shoemaker Edwin C. Burt and depicting a racist, whimsical scene of two African American boys carrying a white girl in a “sedan chair” in the shape of a shoe. In the left, a boy attired in red, sarong-like shorts holds the red, back handles of the sedan over his shoulders. In the right, a boy attired in yellow, sarong-like shorts with black stripes holds the red, front handles over his shoulders. The girl sits with her legs stretched out. She is attired in a red headband that wraps around her brown hair styled in a bun; a yellow, short-sleeved dress with a white collar and blue stripes at the sleeves and around the bottom; and a gold bracelet. She holds a matching yellow and blue fan, possibly of peacock feathers. The sedan chair is depicted as a black woman's dress shoe with a heel and is adorned with a red bow at the front with a gold and diamond circular embellishment. A red canopy with green fringe trim attached to the back of the shoe shields the girl. In the background, mountains and a pink sky are visible. Edwin C. Burt (1818-1884) began his career in boot and shoemaking with his father in Hartford, Connecticut in 1838. He moved his business to New York City in 1848 and founded Edwin C. Burt & Co. in 1860. He patented an improvement to increase his shoes' durability in 1874., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Text on the recto: Over., Advertising text on verso: Caution to the public. Ladies', misses' and children's genuine Burt's shoe has the name stamped in full on the lining of each shoe, thus: Edwin C. Burt Maker New York. Also, on the bottom of each shoe, thus: Edwin C. Burt New York. And are warranted to give satisfaction. Call for them. If these goods are not to be obtained in your [?] [plea]se write us and we will advise where [?] be found. Edwin C. Burt, New York., Gift of David Doret., Library Company holds a duplicate copy with a variant verso [P.2017.95.19].
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Burt [P.2017.95.20]
- Title
- Standard java, Chase & Sanborn, Boston
- Description
- Trimmed metamorphic trade card promoting Chase & Sanborn's coffee. Depicts a quirky, racist scene with a trompe l’oeil aesthetic and including the oversized head of a Black man with exaggerated features in a North African setting. Shows an African man attired in a yellow hooded robe on a white horse and holding a long spoon to an enormous face of an African man. His head covered in a green and red turban has torn through a wall. He purses his lips out to the spoon. In the center of the image is a white coffee cup with a blue stripe and the text "Standard java, Chase and Sanborn, Boston" written in red. In the right foreground, holding a basket, is a barefooted African woman attired in a white dress with red stripes and cap sleeves; a yellow vest; and red, head kerchief. In the background is a building with Moresque decorative features in the doorway and window. Illustrated on the verso is a partial view of a black man. Shows his chin and lower lip, his torso, and his legs above his ankles. His arms are raised, and he is attired in white pants with blue stripes; a green jacket with yellow lining; a white collared shirt; and red vest and bowtie. Caleb Chase (1831-1908) established a coffee and tea company in 1864. Chase partnered with coffee seller James Sanborn (1835-1903) in 1874 to form Chase & Sanborn. It was the first company to pack and ship roasted coffee in sealed tins. In 1893, the firm supplied the coffee to all of the salons at the Chicago World's Fair. Chase & Sanborn was acquired in 1929 by Standard Brands, which merged with Nabisco in 1981., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Boston roasted coffees have a national reputation representing the finest grown seal brand java and mocha coffee is justly called the aristocratic coffee of America surpassing all others in its richness and delicacy of flavor always packed whole roasted in 2-lb, air-tight tin cans. Crusade blend coffee is a skillfull blending of three high grade coffees noted for their flavor, strength and aroma, warranted not to contain a single Rio bean, but guaranteed to [?]., Gift of David Doret., Card is trimmed at the top and bottom.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Chase [P.2017.95.25]
- Title
- Clark's trade mark 36 Mile-End spool cotton
- Description
- Trade card promoting Clark Thread Company and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man minstrel drummer. Shows the man, in near profile, smiling and beating drumsticks on a drum strapped to his chest. The drum is a giant spool of thread labeled "Clark's Mile-End spool cotton." He is attired in black shoes; blue pants with a yellow stripe; a white jacket with pink flowers and long tails, with large buttons; a white ruffled shirt with a high collar; and a white top hat with a black band. The George A. Clark & Brother Company, manufactory of embroidery and sewing thread, was founded in 1863 in Newark, N.J. The firm was renamed Clark & Co. in 1879, and in the 1880s created a six-cord, soft finished thread called "Our New Thread" or "O.N.T." The business merged with J. & P. Coats in 1896, which lead to a series of mergers with fourteen other companies. Into the 21st century, the company continues to manufacture thread under the name Coats & Clark., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Clark's trademark Mile-End spool thread. Best six cord. All numbers from no. 8 to 100. The colors are especially dyed to match. All shades of dress goods and can be used instead of silk by dress makers and families. The black is strong and smooth, and of the purest dye. It will retain its very deep black hue as long as silk fabrics. The white, black and colored is the standard for use upon all sewing machines., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Clark [P.2017.95.32]
- Title
- It stands at the head. "Domestic" sewing machine
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Domestic Sewing Machine Company and depicting a caricaturized genre scene of an African American family looking to their right at a billboard on the side of a building. The figures are portrayed with exaggerated feaures. Shows an older, squat man, a woman, and three children seated and standing in a horse-drawn cart halted on a dirt road. An older boy stands behind the cart. The man, attired in a top hat; a ragged jacket; a shirt with bowtie; and pants with patches on the knees and suspenders sits smiling and holding in his hands a stick and the reins of his horse that wears blinders. The woman, attired in spectacles; a straw hat with a decorative ribbon that is tied under her chin in a bow; a long-sleeved dress; and a shawl stands up inside the cart. She holds a baby in her left arm and points at the billboard with her right hand. A boy attired in a long shirt and pants sits beside the man in the front of the cart. Behind the man, a girl attired in a bonnet stands. The boy outside of the cart is barefooted and attired in a cap; a shirt; and ragged pants with a hole at the knee, and carries a basket. A dog, its tail between its legs, hunches underneath the cart. In the left, the billboard is illustrated with a sewing machine in the center of a star with the advertising text around it. Text reads: "It stands at the head : Copyrighted by the "Domestic" Sewing Machine Co. The star that leads them all. Unequalled for simplicity of construction ease of operation and durability. The light running "Domestic" sewing machine." In the distant right background a house is visible. William S. Mack & Co. and N.S. Perkins founded the Domestic Sewing Machine Company in 1864 in Norwalk, Ohio. The White Sewing Machine Company bought the company in 1924., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Distributor's imprint printed on recto: E.R. Bumps, jeweller, Waldoboro, ME., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Domestic [P.2017.95.51]