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- Title
- The Union mower
- Description
- "Thomas H. Dodge, proprietor, 42 Exchange Street, Worcester, Mass."--p. [3]., This machine was awarded a prize at the New England Agricultural Society fair held in Sept. 1864., Illustrations engraved by J.W. Orr and W.C. Whittemore., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Dodge, Thomas Hutchins, 1823-1910
- Date
- [not before 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Dodge 14574.Q (Beit- ler)
- Title
- William W. Cansler's Paper-Hanging Warehouse N.E. corner of Arch & Seventh Sts. Philadelphia Country merchants supplied at the lowest prices. Rooms papered at short notice by careful workmen. Frescoes &c
- Description
- Advertisement showing a northeast view of the two and one-half story storefront, covered in signage at 242 (i.e., 600 block) of Arch Street). Signage advertises "William Cansler. An extensive assortment of French and American Paper Hangings for Parlors Entries, Dining Rooms, Halls &c of Modern Style Fire Screens" and "Paper Hanging Warehouse." A couple enters the entry to the storefront between showcase windows displaying large wall paper samples. At the side of the building, a man walks past an advertising pole reading "Paper Hangings. Velvet Border" as a woman strolls ahead of him. Cansler tenanted the site 1842-1848., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1845]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler recto, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 William W. Cansler verso
- Title
- John Mundell & Co.'s Solar Tip Shoes. Made only by John Mundell & Co. Phila None genuine without our trademark. Look out for the trademark. At wholesale by A.P. Doe & Co., Davenport, Iowa
- Description
- Advertisement containing a scene showing a personified figure of the sun standing on a stage surrounded by children. A few sit on the floor trying on shoes or crying., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 124, Library of Congress: PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
- Title
- Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R. R. Car Manufactory, 21st. & Hamilton streets Philadelphia Manufactory of every description of rail road passenger and freight cars of any design or dimension required
- Description
- Advertisement showing a City Passenger R.R. car and passenger railroad car built by the firm. The street car is depicted with a galloping horse team, driver, several passengers, and conductor and travels past the "P.S. Duval & Son lithographers." studio at the corner of Fifth and Minor streets. Richard Kimball and Lorenzo D. Gorton partnered 1851-1861., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.87.173/2, LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton. Copy hand-colored.
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.87.173/2, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Kimball & Gorton
- Title
- John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1849.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W201.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W201 [P.2140]
- Title
- Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by H.W. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1849.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W298.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W298 [P.2174]
- Title
- [Lewis Fatman & Co., steam paste blacking, steam friction matches, 41 N. Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [Dec. 1847]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W217.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W217 [P.2110]
- Title
- [Lewis Fatman & Co., blacking manufactory, steam friction matches manufactory, back of No. 412 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 412 Coates Street, later Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [ca. 1847]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W218.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W218 [P.2109]
- Title
- [J. & J. Reakirt, wholesale druggists and importers of drugs, chemicals, paints, dye-stuffs, &c. &c. S.E. cor. of Third & Callowhill Sts., Philada.] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
- Description
- LCP copy trimmed, lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 R288.
- Creator
- Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847 artist., creator
- Date
- ca. 1844.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W192.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W192 [P.2056]
- Title
- [Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron, No. 8 Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 8 Market Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [Aug. 1847]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W327.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W327 [P.2185]
- Title
- Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lithographed by W. H. Rease, No. 97 Chestnut St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W299.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W299 [P.2089]
- Title
- Mahlon S. Myers, (successor to Shimmel & Myers,) commission merchant, and dealer in flour, grain & feed, Nos. 239 North Water St., & 244 North Delaware Avenue, Phila In store, and receiving wheat, rye, corn, oats, mill feed, ohio oil cake, and all descriptions of country produce. I respectfully solicit consignments to the above address
- Description
- Twelve references printed in two columns on recto below title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Myers [P.2002.67.10]
- Title
- Union Brass Works. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. 525 and 527 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Manufacturers of every variety of cocks for steam, gas, water, liquor, oil, etc. etc. Plumbers', steam or gas fitters', machinists', and coppersmiths' brass work. Steam whistles, globe valves, check valves, gauge cocks, oil globes & cups, couplings, &c. Brass casting and finishing generally. Over
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, a locomotive on a bridge, a large building, and a steamboat on a body of water. M'Cambridge, Fry & Co., the partnership between Richard McCambridge, John Fry and John Robinson, operated from 525 and 527 Cherry Street in the 1860s., Advertising text promoting plumbers' earthenware sold by M'Cambridge, Fry & Co. printed on verso. Text partially illegible after removal from scrapbook., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - M'Cambridge [(2)5786.F.161c]
- Title
- Edward P. Macken, dealer in Key West, imported and domestic cigars, and tobacco, my 5 cent cigars a specialty. 1140 Pine St., Philad'a All daily, weekly and Sunday papers on hand
- Description
- Illustrated trade card embellished with a geometric border., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Macken [1975.F.616]
- Title
- S. Twitchell & Bro. Manufacturers, importers and dealers in bottlers' supplies, 225 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Penn'a "Our motto,--full weight, measure, count and quality." Selden Twitchell. Oscar Twitchell. Manufacturers of spirit coloring, malt coloring, sarsaparilla coloring, ethers and amyls, Belfast ginger ale, tonic and birch beers, pear champagne cider, lemon soda, wild cherry tonic, Phila. cream mead, foam or gum, and all other bottlers' extracts, also bottling tables, filterers, filling machines for internal stoppered bottles, etc. Dealers in and importers of essential oils, corks, bottles, tartaric and citric acids, oil vitrol, whiting, marble dust, bottle washing and rinsing machines, lightning stoppers, neck wires and par. Cork fasteners, bottling tables, etc. shipping cases, etc. Hutchinson and all other patent stoppers, etc
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a glass bottle and a sectional view of a closed mouth of Twitchell's Improved Globe Stoppered bottle printed on verso. Also includes Twitchell's trademark printed on recto., Advertising text printed on verso describes bottle improvements made by S. Twitchell & Bro., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Twitchell [P.2006.20.10]
- Title
- [Read's Grand Duchess Cologne trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. H. Read, 185 W. Baltimore St., Balto., Md. and 138 Fulton Street, New York. Illustrations depict bust portraits of well-dressed women and includes one woman holding a large bottle of Read's Grand Duchess Cologne., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Read's Grand Duchess Cologne and Sore Throat and Catarrh Powder and lists prizes awarded Read's cologne as late as 1882., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Read [1975.F.727; 1975.F.743 & 744]
- Title
- Union Tea Co., No. 1735 North 10th Street, teas, coffees, & spices. Handsome & useful presents given away with tea and coffee
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford's Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- c1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Union [P.9802.14]
- Title
- H.O. Wilbur & Sons, chocolate & cocoa manufacturers, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl outside at a table with a tin of Wilbur's breakfast cocoa. The girl tries to pry a cup of hot cocoa from the boy's hands as he drinks from the cup he stole from her. The scene depicted from the opposite angle showing the boy's back is printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Gordon Marshall., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wilbur [P.9306.2]
- Title
- Use ideal quinine and sulphur soap
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a deer running through a forest., Advertising text printed on verso: Ideal tooth powder 25 c. per bottle. When I go to bed! I can't sleep on account of the terrible itching of my limbs. "Ideal" quinine and sulphur soap will cure this and all other skin diseases. 25 c. per cake. Of your dealer or by mail. Vail Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ideal [P.9787]
- Title
- August Nittinger, Jr., manufacturer of butchers' & packers' machinery and tools, nos. 826, 828 & 830 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia Established 1852. The oldest and largest establishment of the kind in the United States. Meat chopping machines, meat rockers, sausage stuffing machines, lard presses &c. Boilers & engines, horizontal or vertical. Importer of genuine English sheep casings, and the celebrates John Wilson's butchers' knives & steels. Depot for the sale of all kinds of casings and spices. Everything in the butchers' and packers' line can be had at this establishment. All goods warranted as represented. Illustrated catalogue & price list sent free upon application
- Description
- Advertisement printed on verso in German., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Nittinger [P.9849]
- Title
- Compliments of Nice & Rau, varnishes, paints, oils, etc. 328 & 330 S. Second St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette shaped into a leaf showing a few figures ice skating by moonlight. Includes a bare tree in the foreground and the townscape in the background., Advertising text printed on verso: Woodhouse Excelsior Liquid. Patented March 17, 1885. An article the use of which makes finishing woodwork in the natural state easy for the painter and always satisfactory to the owner. Sole agents, Nice & Rau, manufacturers and dealers in varnishes, paints, oils, glass, etc., No. 328 & 330 S. Second Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Nice [P.9651.18]
- Title
- Fresh deviled crabs. McMenamin & Co., Hampton, Va
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a crab on land in the foreground and a man and two women crabbing in a rowboat on a body of water in the background. Includes two other boats on the water in the distance. A circular vignette showing deviled crabs is superimposed onto the landscape view., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **trade card - McMenamin [1975.F.1a]
- Title
- [Let terhead of The Pharmaceutical Era, D. C. Haynes & Co., publishers, New York]
- Description
- Billheads for the periodical published 1887-1931. Contains decorative type; subscription prices; and variant mailing addresses for difference types of correspondence., Title supplied by cataloger., Completed in type to Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond Va. on February 18, 1896 soliciting a "price list of [their] goods" and May 3, 1898 promoting the sixth edition of the Era Druggists directory., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - P [P.2011.46.208 & 209]
- Title
- Bought of Browning & Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in white and red lead, litharge, linseed oil, oil of vitriol, window glass, putty, dye stuffs, &c.&c. No. 33 Market Street
- Description
- Illustrated billheads containing an exterior view of the "Browning & Brothers Drug and Chemical Warehouse" and storefront on the 100 block of Market Street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk, near awning posts, in front of the store. One is marked "Oil Vitriol." Also shows partial views of adjacent buidlings. Established by Maurice Browning and his brothers circa 1839, the firm was one of the earliest involved in the United States dye trade and operated a factory known as the Aroma Mills in Camden, N.J., P.2011.46.17 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on July 18, 1849 for five items including "2 [fg.?] Laudamun" and "1# Cinnamon Bark" for $9.60. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., P.2011.46.18 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on March 7, 1850 for six items including "5 #os Liquorice [sic] Root" and "4 doz. Batemans drops" for $3.80. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
- Date
- [1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.17 & 18]
- Title
- [Illustrated checks and lettersheet of Lanman & Kemp, wholesale druggists, 69, 71 and 73 Water St., New York]
- Description
- Graphics include allegorical vignette illustration showing a female figure, reclined against a hearth and surrounded by druggists apparatus and equipment (including a mortar and pestle and distillery), and a medallion type ornament marked "Two Cents United States Internal Revenue." The firm originally established by Robert J. Murray in 1808 was reincorporated as Lanman & Kemp in 1861., P.2011.46.184 numbered No. 12, 370; and dated July 7, 1868; pay to Stein Marcus[?], $236.50; drawn on the Bank of New York, and signed by Jno. J. McLaran, Edward Kemp. Endorsed on verso: For Deposit Chat. Nat. Bank. Harro Marcus., P.2011.46.185 completed in manuscript on February 26, 1869 to Mess. C. Schrack & Co., Philada. from Lanman & Kemp Livingston requesting a "remittance for our invoice Jan 29 $459 37/100 will oblige. Inscribed lower left: 9 97 [+] 46 [=] 59 82 [+] 39 88 [=] 458 62., P.2011.46.186 numbered No. 119; and dated May 10, 1873; pay to Gridley Hoffer, $164. 81, drawn on the Merchants National Bank, and signed by Lanman & Kemp. Endorsed on verso: Gridley Hoffer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., C. Schrack & Co. were Philadelphia varnish and color manufacturers and importers and dealers in printers’ materials.
- Date
- [ca. 1860-1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - L [P.2011.46.184-186]
- Title
- Kremintz, white lead, zinc and color works. McKnight & Co., manufacturers, importers, and wholesale dealers, Twenty-Second & Race sts. Philadelphia We manufacture a chemically pure carbonate of lead; and also manufacturers , importers, and dealers in all grades & qualities of leads & zinc paints, colors, &c
- Description
- Trade card containing an exterior view of the "Kremintz, White Lead, Zinc and Color Works. McKnight & Co." factory and fenced courtyard. Laborers load a horse-drawn wagon near the entryway and another wagon travels down the street. View also includes several smokestacks., Printed above image: G. S. McKnight. Cicero Hunt., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154c]
- Title
- [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
- Description
- Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]
- Title
- [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
- Description
- Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]
- Title
- Chas. A. Duhring & Co., fine American porcelain dinner, tea and toilet sets, pressed glassware--cut patterns, decoration and engraving to order. No. 1226 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa Chas. A. Duhring. Geo. Hobbs
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a border of foliage., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Duhring [P.2006.20.13]
- Title
- Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia L.C. Schuehler, 1222 N. Fourth Street. H.G. Schuehler, 142 Edward Street. Jobbing promptly attended to. Speaking tubes put up
- Description
- Manuscript note on verso: One $38.00 from O. Jorden, roof boiler house., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1895]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schuehler [P.2006.20.43]
- Title
- Shill's factory and store, 1029 Chestnut Street, next door to the new opera house
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a wailing baby., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Shill's "celebrated and renowned baby coaches" and lists some of Shill's products in two columns., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shill [1975.F.779]
- Title
- Wetherill & Brothers white lead manufactory & chemical works, corner of 12th & Cherry streets, Philadelphia
- Description
- View predominately showing the yard of the complex built circa 1812-1813 for the earliest American white lead manufactory founded by Samuel Wetherill Jr. in the 1780s. Factory workers labor between a horse-drawn cart, and rows and stacks of crates, barrels, and vats, which cover the yard that is surrounded by buildings. Several smoke stacks adorn the roofs of the shops. Following the circa 1812 fire of the Wetherill white lead manufactory at Broad and Chestnut streets, the new factory was built at the northeast corner of 12th & Cherry streets, including the addition of a chemical manufactory. In 1847, the factory enlarged and relocated to West Philadelphia at 30th Street below Chestnut., Name of artist and printer attributed by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110. Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 122 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 122., Manuscript note on verso: Est 1809 by Saml Wetherwill & Son. N.W. cor. Chestnut & Broad des. by fire abt 1813 then [illegible], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 832, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.4 and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W451 [P.9830.4]
- Title
- Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage, [blank] and now riding at anchor, in [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to h[blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship, hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
- Description
- Three bills of lading printed one above the other on a single half sheet; each of the three blank forms begins with an ornamental letter S., Printed area measures 32.1 x 15.6 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. in triplicate for Nathaniel West Dandridge, shipping eight hogsheads of tocabbo to Messrs. Farrel & Jones, Bristol, England, aboard the ship Realto, at anchor in York River, John Thomas, master; dated Aug. 30, 1762 and signed by John Thomas., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
- Date
- [not after 1762]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1762 Shipped 16922.Q (Zinman)
- Title
- Dr. Hooker's medicines J.T. Webber & Co., druggists and apothecaries, No. 7 State Street, Springfield, Mass. Proprietors of Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup syrup, Solidified Balsam and Liquid Balm. Dealers in patent medicines, cooking extracts, perfumery, toilet articles, &c., &c. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded
- Description
- Joseph T. Webber began his drug business on State St., Springfield, Mass. in 1863, and moved to the corner of State and Main in 1865., "Family knitting machines. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company."--p. 2. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company was organized in Springfield, Mass. in 1865., A leaf detached from an unidentified work, with running title: Advertisements., One illustration signed: T. Chubbuck sc. Springfield., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- J.T. Webber & Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 J T Web 112072.D (Helfand)
- Title
- Brook's prize medal spool cotton. Hand & machine sewing
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two groups of men demonstrating the strength of Brook's cotton thread by playing tug of war with it on a dirt path near a body of water. A goat stands on its hind legs on top of a spool of cotton labeled "Brook's six cord 40" in the foreground. Another spool labeled "Brook's patent glace thread 50" sits adjacent to the first., Text printed on verso lists medals and awards won by the company in various world cities between 1851 and 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brook's [1975.F.47]
- Title
- The great capadura has been, is now, and ever shall be the best 5 ct. cigar in the world
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a scantily-clad woman standing with her elbows propped on the back of an armchair in front an ornate drape., Advertising text printed on verso: The three champions! Capadura half dime, capadura de la reina, capadura olivette. Dealers only supplied by R.C. Brown & Co. New York. Branch, 601 and 603 Market St. Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - R.C. Brown & Co. [1975.F.223a]
- Title
- M. Gould's Sons & Co. No. 8 N. Sixth St. Phila. Pa
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting brass rods, fire pokers, a cross, a rail, and other brass hardware. A drape containing the company's name hangs from a brass rod., Advertising text printed on verso: Established 1832. M. Gould's Sons & Co. Manufacturers of stair rods and upholsterers' hardware. Artistic and ecclesiastical brasswork a specialty. Brass curtain poles of all descriptions. No. 8 North Sixth St., Philadelphia. Manufactory, Newark, N.J., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gould [1975.F.387]
- Title
- Edward Geary, Jr. dealer in Lehigh and Schuylkill coal. Orders received and promptly attended to, at No. 814 North Second St. above Brown, S.E. cor. Ridge Avenue & Wallace St., (or through despatch directed as above,) Philadelphia. Cash on delivery
- Description
- Illustrated stock trade card depicting a sphere labeled "Our Country" partially submerged in water and surmounted by an American flag flying to the right. Includes various styles of hats on a rack printed on verso., Advertising text printed on verso is partially obscured by paper remaining after removing trade card from scrapbook: Edward Geary, fashion, hat & cap store, [81]4 North Second Street, above Brown, Philadelphia. Hats and caps made to order. (Over.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Geary [5786.F.176g]
- Title
- [Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the four-story storefront on an incline at 8 Market Street. Tea kettles, coffee pots, and other metal cookware adorn the shop window. Storefront also contains signage, and an oil can advertising "Oil Cans" hanging from the second story. A railing on a slant is visible in front of the store. Powell operated from the address 1846-1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. No. 8 Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 673, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W327 [P.2185]
- Title
- Trade price list. Howe's spring beds, cots and berth bottoms
- Description
- One illustration signed: Kilburn sc., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Howe Spring Bed Co.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Howe 104209.D
- Title
- [Wm. W. Clark, drug & chemical warehouse, 16 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia] Drugs, medicines, chemicals, glass &c
- Description
- Advertisement showing the 4-story building covered in signage for the druggist at 16 North Fifth Street. Signs advertise "Drugs, Paint Oil & Glass. English. French. German & Mediterranean Drugs." Through the open entranceways of the business, shelves of bottles on cabinets are visible lining the walls. A clerk reaches for one of the notions as a patron enters the store. Another clerk descends into the cellar in front of the building. Crates and barrels of "elixir," "drugs," and "paint" marked with delivery addresses (e.g., J.H. B. & Co.) line the sidewalk across from a horse-drawn dray parked in the street. Also shows bottles, decanters, jugs, and boxes adorning the central display window and upper floor windows. An oversize model of a mortar and pestle is displayed above the entrances. Clark operated from the address 1839-1853., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: June 1847. North Fifth St., Title partially supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 862, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [June 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W467 [P.2248]
- Title
- Geo. W. Ridgway, successor to Saml. P. Griffitts, Jr. Drugs [and] chemicals, [N.W. corner of 9th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the front and side of the three-and-one-half story storefront on the 900 block of Chestnut Street. The proprietor's name adorns the entranceways between which a sign for "Mineral Water" is displayed. Jugs, jars, and flasks are displayed in the storefront windows, an awning covers a side door, and signage and balustrades adorn the roof of the building. Ridgway tenanted the address 1841-1842., Date from Poulson inscription in ink on recto: Feb. 1841. N.W. corner Ninth & Chestnut., Inscription in pencil on recto: Torn down Dec. 1874, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 296, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
- Date
- [Feb. 1841]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W149 [P.2059]
- Title
- [Knight's patent paper machine, manufactory. A.L. Knight & Co.]
- Description
- Exterior view of the three-story paper machine manufactory on Fifteenth and Willow Streets. Signage on the side of the building sprawls across ten bays of windows and reads, "Knight's patent paper machine, manufactory," and a smaller sign above the entrance reads, "A.L. Knight & Co." Three workers stand at every level as a man prepares a package to be hoisted from the sidewalk into the building. A gentleman stands in the entryway watching the workers, as another guides a horse-drawn cart out of the manufactory's enclosed yard. A person seated and writing is visible through the first floor window. Includes a partial view of industrial buildings in the background. A.L. Knight & Co. was in business from 1843 to 1850., Title of lithographic image supplied by cataloger., Contains overprinted letterpress title in red ink surrounded by a blue border: "The subscriber's respectfully inform paper manufacturers that they still continue to make Knight's patent paper machinery together with all kinds of machinery connected with paper making, as rag cutters, cutting presses, forcing pumps and lifting pumps, stamping machines, calendars for writing paper, making cylinders, &c. &c. Knight's patent dryers, are acknowledged by persons having them in operation, to be superior to any other kind now in use. They do not require more than one-third of the fuel required by any other dryers, and give a surface to the paper that cannot be paralleled by any principle or plan of dryers yet discovered. These dryers were invented and patented several years since, and are now in operation in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and New Jersey. The subscribers are also prepared to erect paper mills, by the day or contract, the millwright work of which will be under the superintendence of Wm. Knight, a practical millwright of thirty year's experience--mill's located, and sites selected for person's desirous of building.", "The subscribers have in connection with their machine shop, an iron foundry, in which they are prepared to execute castings of various descriptions, with neatness and despatch. All orders promptly attended to, and all work warranted to give satisfaction. A.L. Knight & Co. Shop--Schuylkill Eighth St., opposite the Columbia Rail Road, Philadelphia. Caution--Manufacturers are informed that all driers made to dry and press simultaneously, are upon the principle of Knight's patent, and all persons who make or use such, will be dealt with according to law.", Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 424, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W214 [P.2137]
- Title
- Chemical laboratory of Crew, Rogers & Crew Philadelphia Penna
- Description
- Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the manufactory at 1601 North Sixth Street for the firm founded by Benjamin J. and J. Lewis Crew and Stephen R. Rogers in 1860. Shop laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn cart parked in front of the laboratory and unstack and shift crates and barrels that line the sidewalks. A company horse-drawn wagon passes in the street. Other traffic includes horse-drawn drays, a "Frankford & Southwark" street car, and elegantly-attired women and men crossing from and to street corners. Also shows a company wagon entering a bay and a dray entering a storage yard at the factory. Surrounding buildings, including probably the warehouse at the lumber yard of Jacob and George A. Binder (6th & Oxford), are visible in the background., Inscribed on recto: About 1854. Used during Civil War 1863-1865 as U.S. laboratory under charge of Prof. John M. Maisch. Maisch was a professor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.423/90
- Creator
- Rease, W. H.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.423/90
- Title
- Agricultural Hall - Nave, Looking North
- Description
- Interior view of Agricultural Hall, specifically looking North from the nave. Depicts exhibits--primarily from Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and France--featuring delicacies such as chocolates, wines, and various other alcoholic beverages. The over-sized bottles on display are part of the Reignard exhibit, a Parisian wine firm. Also shown in the background is the model of a windmill.
- Creator
- Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
- Date
- 1876
- Location
- Centennial - album [P.8965.25b]
- Title
- Verviers Section - Machinery Hall
- Description
- Interior view of Machinery Hall featuring the Verviers of Belgium Section. Depicts the exhibit as indicated by multiple signs reading, "Verviers Belgique". Also shows numerous looms on display, as Verviers of Belgium were makers of fine broad cloths and overcoats.
- Creator
- Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
- Date
- 1876
- Location
- Centennial - album [P.8965.20e]
- Title
- [Philadelphia Evening Bulletin trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, a daily evening newspaper published between 1847 and 1982. Illustrations depict a girl standing in an enclosed yard with a flower in her left hand and a paddle in her right and a series of four prints showing buildings constructed for the Centennial Exhibition in West Fairmount Park, including the Main Exhibition Building, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Agricultural Hall. Buildings designed by Henry Pettit, Joseph M. Wilson, James H. Windrim, and Hermann J. Schwarzmann. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians travel through the landscaped grounds in the foreground of each image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [P.2008.22.6-9] contain text printed on verso: Compliments of the Evening Bulletin., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [1975.F.715 & P.2008.22.6-9]
- Title
- Trade cards, advertisements, and bill heads for Philadelphia merchants
- Description
- Contents: [1] J. Yeager engraver Juniper first door below Chesnut & Race Street 103 Philada. -- [2] Printing done with expedition and care, by Richard Folwell, No. 33, Carter's Alley -- [3] Jonathan Meredith, tanner and currier, Philadelphia -- [4] Spectacles, hardware in general also whips and canes of every description, made and sold by John McAllister, No. 48 Chesnut Street Philadelphia -- [5] Edward Penington sugar refiner No. 155 Sassafras Street, Philada. lump -- [6] Jno. P. & Chas. Wetherill, manufacturers of white lead, billhead, dated May 23, 1829, and addressed in MS. to Messrs Pleasants & Graff -- [7] Carpenter's chemical warehouse Philadelphia -- [8] Superior black ink ... Clemens & Baker., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Zinman, Michael, collector
- Date
- [between 1797 and 1847?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Zinman Trade cards 111893.O (Zinman)
- Title
- Moyer & Hazard, successors of Alexander Fullerton, 174 Market Street, fifth door above Fifth Street, Philadelphia [and] Elijah Bowen, wholesale & retail hat & cap store, No. 176 Market Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the adjacent businesses of wholesale druggists Charles Moyer and A. Fullerton Hazard (successors of Alexander Fullerton, 174 Market Street), and wholesale and retail hatter, Elijah Bowen (176 Market Street). Both four-story, three-bay buildings are covered in signage. Signs advertise "Alexander Fullerton drugs medicine & paints" in two locations on the facade of 174 Market Street, indicating a recent shift in ownership of the drug store. A man stands in each of the two doors to each store. In Moyer & Hazard's shop, a man stands in the left doorway and points and directs a laborer who moves goods on a dolly. Another man emerges from the bulkhead, while a gentleman wearing a top hat enters the business through the door on the right. Decanters and other glassware fill the shop windows. Boxes and barrels labeled "Madder," "Indigo," "Sp. Turpentine," "G. Copal," "Oil Vit." line the edge of the sidewalk in the foreground. A man moves a box in the left door of Elijah Bowen's shop. A similar box rests on a dolly nearby. Another laborer hammers the lid onto a wooden crate next to a pile of crates near the street. Top hats line the first floor windowsills and are piled on the upper floors, as seen through open windows. A flag advertising the hat store flies from the dormer window in the attic. Charles Moyer, A. Fullerton Hazard, and Elijah Bowen operated these adjacent businesses from 1846 to 1854., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846., Additional advertising text for Moyer & Hazard included on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 493, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1846]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W242 [P.2133]
- Title
- John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing the five-story storefront, adorned with signage and an ornamental iron work balcony, of the druggist on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the entrances to the establishment as in front of him a crate is hoisted. To the left, the window and second entry of the building are open and casks, jugs, bottles, and boxes line a wall of shelves and the floor. Additional inventory are visible near the upper floor windows. In front of the store, a clerk, with a receipt in his hand, watches two draymen load their vehicle in the street. One drayman controls the horse as the other loads a crate onto the dray. A line of crates and barrels, some marked with barely legible print, line the sidewalk near the laborer. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings in front of which a couple and gentleman stroll. Partial signage is visible on the buildings reading "..Mann....ufacturer" (98) and "Tobac.. & Segar...John" (102). Piles of crates rest near the open doorway of the tobacco store. John C. Baker & Co. tenanted the site from 1849. The firm was one of the founding members of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange in 1861., Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 408, Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [August 1849]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W201 [P.2140]