Location: Eighteenth Street and Fishers Lane., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator
Smith, B. F., Jr. lithographer., creator
Date
ca. 1850.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W441-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W441 [P.2265]
Location: 608 South Delaware Avenue (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218., HSP copy contains advertising text and price list printed in letterpress.
Creator
Rease, W. H., creator
Date
[Aug. 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W364.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W364 [P.2200]
Location: Schuylkill Eighth [i.e. Sixteenth] Street , opposite Columbia Railroad., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
ca. 1845.
Location
http://www.librarycompany.org/wainwright/W214.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W214 [P.2137]
Sewn price list of French, English, and American stationery., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C814a.
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W087.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W87 [P.2036]
Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856) (HSP O 458), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 C 814b.
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W088.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W88 [P.2038]
Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Creator
Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]
Location: 2025 Market Street., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44.
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W213.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W213 [P.8691]
Location: 108 North Front Street, later 138-140 North Front St., Title from accompanying manuscript note., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date
ca. 1852.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W198.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W198 [P.2075]
William A. Andrews is listed in Philadelphia directories from 1859 to 1871; most of the "References" are soldiers in the Civil War era volunteer regiments from Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Andrews, William A.
Date
[between 1861 and 1865?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Andrews 9982.F.16 (McAllister)
Contains images of the John B. Stetson Hat Company manufactury near 5th and Montgomery Avenues. The company moved to this site in 1874 and constructed 20 buildings over a 55 year period. Operations ceased in this location in 1971. Images depict an aerial drawing of the 29 acre campus and interior photographs of the office corridor, reception room and salesroom. Also includes employees finishing soft hats, forming and sizing hat bodies, cutting fur and flanging soft hats, trimming stiff hats and weaving silk bands and bindings., Divided backs. Company biography on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9934.1-12]
Depicts Krider's gun store at the northeast corner of 2nd and Walnut Streets, looking east at the south front and west flank. Includes a partial view of the sign for St. Alban's Hotel in the foreground, along with a sign advertising Shore Dinners at Bookbinder's Restaurant (125 Walnut Street). A cigar shop and Bookbinder's are visible in the background. A plaque is posted near the Second Street doorway of the gun shop, marking the site as the birthplace of John Drinker, the first white child born in Philadelphia. The brick building was constructed by John Drinker as a residence in 1751 and altered to a gun shop in 1826. John Krider purchased the shop in 1856. Building demolished in 1955., Inscribed in negative: 2193., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.10]
Depicts the smokestacks and factory buildings of the Pencoyd Iron Works from the Schuylkill River. Includes boats on the river in the foreground. In 1852, Percival and Algernon Roberts started the business manufacturing bridge and structural steel supplies. Merged with the American Bridge Company in 1900., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
1914
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.135]
Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting two large frame sheds, occupied by Edward Peirce, plumber, near the intersection of Millman Street and Hartwell Lane. Includes a one story stucco building. Snow covers the ground and the buildings in the image., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Label on verso: #10-N. fr[om] Hartwell La[ne]-Looking north from Hartwell Ave [sic] showing Branch office & 2 frame sheds., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date
ca. 1940
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.6]
Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Henry H. McCargo tucked into a spray of flowers., Advertising text promoting the "New Home Sewing Machine" and the "Improved Domestic, the Genuine Singer, No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, American, Household" printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Walter Bethel., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McCargo [P.9300]
Trade card for the Boston pistol manufacturer containing a comic image titled "When the Swallows Homeward Fly." Shows a man, a bib at his neck, eating from plates with a roast and a whole chicken. The large-eyed man places a spoon of food into his very wide mouth. Also contains an image of a $5.00 "Pope's Rifle Air Pistol," advertising text, and "A Few of the Many Testimonials" printed on the verso. Advertising text includes details about the adjustable gun stock, ease of loading for a "lady or boy," and additional paraphernalia (darts, slugs, and ramrod claw wrench). Albert Pope established Pope Manufacturing Company circa 1865., Printed on recto: [over]., Stamped on verso in red ink: Prices Reduced. Black from $5.00 to $3.00. Nickel $6.00 to $4.00., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
1876, c1873
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.46]
Trade card containing a view showing a four-horse team conestoga wagon passing a mountain side. A man rides one of the horses of the team and a dog follows the wagon. Lancaster County, Conestoga Township began to serve as a center for the production of tobacco in the 1860s., Mauscript notes in pencil on verso, including: 9 full Molding Wash Board., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.56]
Illustrated trade card depicting a "cut-i-cure-u" saw., Advertising text and prices printed on verso for the "cut-i-cure-u wood saw" produced by the J. Barton Smith Company, Gilbert Parker, treasurer, s.e. cor. Fourth and Somerset Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Parker's [P.2002.67.13]
Embossed textile label for the Philadelphia linen dealer reincorporated as Super, Marshall & Co. in 1889. Contains the image of an armored arm holding a battle axe in its hand framed by pictorial details representative of royalty, including a crown., Printed and in manuscript on recto: No. 8641., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.171]
Manuscript note on recto: Phone 112 W.P., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1892]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stokes [P.2006.20.37]
Billhead for the apothecary containing a vignette composed of a tourniquet-like frame surmounted by a scale and surrounding a shield illustrated with the head of a hog. Henry C. Blair's Sons was dissolved in 1893 and Andew Blair assumed sole operations of the business., Completed in manuscript to Mrs. W. Hinckle Smith, 1816 Chestnut St. on January 1, 1890 for several items, including Pratt's Chlorides, Maltine Plain, and Castor Oil-Olive Oil for $6.00., Stamped on recto: Received Payment, Jan 9 1895 Andrew Blair [K. J.], 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. 1893]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads 1880- (A-D) - B [P.2011.46.299]
Series of illustrated trade cards for G. Milliken & Sons at 828 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a vignette of a loom surrounded by a garland of holly and a woman seated working at a loom. G. Milliken's linen store was established in 1846 for the importation and sale of pure linen goods of every description., One print [1975.F.637] copyrighted 1877 by L. Prang & Co. and printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila., One print [1975.F.637] contains advertising text promoting G. Milliken's linen products printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
1877-1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Milliken's [1975.F.636 & 637]
Pictorial envelope containing an image of a bearded man attired in a heavy, sheep lined coat, cap, and gloves. The man also holds a lit pipe. Bell Bros. Company was incorporated in 1888., Title from advertising text., Addressed in manuscript to: Flancy & Co., Argusville, N.D., Contains on recto: ink-stamp postmark: Dubuque, Iowa Jul 1, 1902 7 PM and cancelled two-cent oval stamp printed in red ink and depicting the profile of George Washington., Contains on verso: ink-stamp postmark Argusville, N. Dak, Jul 2, 1902., Date inferred from postmarks., Printed upper left corner: After 10 days, return to Bell Bros. company, Cor. Fourth & Locust Street, DUBUQUE, IOWA., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1902]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.71]
Pictorial envelope containing a vignette depicting an anvil marked with the name of the hardware firm., Title from printed return address., Date inferred from ink-stamp postmark: Philadelphia Apr 21, [18]88, 6 30 PM., Contains cancelled oval two-cent stamp printed in green and containing a profile portrait of George Washington., Printed upper left corner: Please return if not delivered within 10 days., Addressed in manuscript to: Cleveland Stone Co., Cleveland, Ohio., Contains on verso: ink-stamp postmark: Cleveland, O., Apr 23, 1888, 4 AM., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Cleveland Stone Company was founded by George H. Worthington in 1886.
Date
[ca. 1888]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.72]
Envelope containing pictorial details depicting different styles of hooks, saws, and taks surrounding the advertising text. The Andrews manufactory founded in 1860 was reorganized as E. Andrews & Sons in 1882., Title from printed return address., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Williamsport, PA Decd 23 7 PM and cancelled three-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting George Washington in profile., Date inferred from stamp., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Herr Rieker & Co., Salona, Pa., Printed above title: If not called for in 10 days return., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.70]
Billhead containing a collage of hardware store merchandise, including a "Beaver Falls" pocket knife, silverware, and handgun. Alford & Berkele, originally a tool and cuttlery manufactory operated under Alonzo Alford, was incorporated in 1883. The firm dissolved circa 1901., List of twenty-five "(Specialties.) Goods of the following Manufactures:" printed to left of image. Includes A.M. Booth, pocket knives; Tinker & Hall, Little Giant rat traps; and Edgecomb Novelty Co., Printed above and below image: No allowance for damage or deficiency unless claim to be established within 5 days after receipt of goods. Terms: [Net Cash] With Exchange on N.Y., subject to Sight Draft at Maturity., Completed in manuscript to Mr. Lewis J. Macy, Pulaski, N.Y. on July 16, 1889 for 1 set ideal reloading tools 38 W.C.F. #4, 2.50. 25 @ 10%: 1.70., Inscribed in pencil on recto: Express. Paid by P.O. note., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Small section of bottom edge torn off.
Date
[ca. 1883]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.117]
Advertising text printed on verso lists in two columns the various kinds of structures built by the Quaker City Construction Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1905]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quaker [P.2006.20.51]
A. Ripka & Bro., the partnership between Adolph and Gustave Ripka, operated from 1525 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia beginning ca. 1886., Subtitles enclosed within decorative borders., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1886]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ripka [P.2006.20.9]
Illustrated trade card depicting two anthropomorphic frogs smoking Pollywog cigars. One frog wears a bow tie and cap and leans against a large tree trunk and holds his cigar in his right hand. The other frog smiles down at his lit cigar on top of a Pollywogs' box, which rests on a large mushroom cap., Manuscript note on verso partially illegible. Numbered 53., 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 - Pollywogs [1975.F.721]
Cigar box label containing a bust-length portrait of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow partially framed in garland., Trade Mark., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.111]
Illustrated trade card for F.H. Watt and R. McQuinn's luggage shop at 437 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustration depicts a spray of flowers., 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 - Watt [1975.F.955]
Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., 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 - Webb [P.9802.4]
Illegible manuscript note on recto below street address., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Vance [P.2002.67.8]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a boy in a sailor outfit seated on a rope ladder and a blue banner inscribed "Universal Fashion Co." superimposed onto reeds., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.886] contains a calendar for 1882 printed on verso., One print [P.9111.7] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting W.M. Kilbourne & Son's books, stationery, toys, albums, etc., the Liberty, New York distributor of the Universal Fashion Co.'s "perfect-fitting patterns"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1882]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Universal [1975.F.886 & P.9111.7]
Gameboard containing a circle comprised of 30 spaces surrounding advertising text and an image of the devil. Spaces marked with baseball rulings and plays, including Strike, Ball, Out, Foul, and Single Hit 1 Base. Circle surrounded by a "baseball diamond.", "Grand Stand Base Ball Rules" printed on the verso. Rules explicate Number of Players, a Game, an Inning, and "When Needle Stops On: Out, Strike, Foul, Ball, Single Hit, Two Base Hit, Three Base Hit, Home Run, Sacrifice Hit, and Double Out. Also includes Note - To see which bats first each player spins once, and the highest goes to bat: Home run is highest, then three base hit, two base hit, single hit, sacrifice, ball, foul, strike out, double out being lowest., Printed on verso: Price 25 [cents]., 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. 1895]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Advertisements [P.2010.37.89]
Illustrated trade card depicting the four-story front elevation of 81 Arch Street (i.e., 200 block of Arch Street), the location of Benjamin C. Hornor's varnishing business. Includes a shop window on the ground level flanked by two large doorways and sideboards on the building that read, "varnish" and "Benj. C. Horner"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hornor [(6)1322.F.119a]
Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Miss E. Levy tucked into a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford, 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 - Levy [1975.F.485]
Illustrated trade card depicting an elephant on recto and verso. James S. Kirk & Co., the manufacturers of Kirk's blue India soap, relocated to Chicago, Illinois from Utica, New York in 1859., Trimmed down to shape of elephant and grass., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kirk's [P.9993.1]
Illustrated trade card depicting an ornate hand-held fan., Manuscript note on verso: Best red check 65 cts., 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 - Knight [1975.F.480]
