Improved authors with portraits & autographs
Title
Improved authors with portraits & autographs
Description
Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card., Publication date based on copyright statement on box cover., Includes "Improved Authors Directions for Playing" instruction sheet. Instructions note that the 72 cards containing the "Portrait and Autograph of some distinguished Author, together with the titles of three [of their] different works" are to be "arranged in 18 groups of four cards each" with the goal to get as many complete groups as possible., Box cover printed with gilt lettering and a decorative border., Gift of Clarence Wolf., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Creator
McLoughlin Bros.
Date
1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Improved [P.8453]
Book of cabinet chromos 1881 [graphic].
Title
Book of cabinet chromos 1881
Description
Subscriber's premium comprised of a series of titled chromolithographs depicting portraits of historical figures and genre, religious, sentimental, and allegorical scenes. Images include "Beauty and Her Pets" showing a young lady feeding doves at her window garden; a robed woman "At The Cross"; the "Autumn Beauties" of a girl on a swing with her cat in her lap; a woman picking flowers in "Shoo Fly"; "The Sailor Girl"; "Our Idol," a lavishly attired Victorian girl; a woman near a fireplace showing "Maternal Affection" as she holds her baby to her breast; "The Flower Angels"; "The Angel of Song" in a bird's nest; a "Little Tot" of a girl; "The Flower Girl" in a wooded area with her dog; "Young Captain Jinks"; "Little Buttercup"; a woman pondering "Yes Or No" to a written marriage proposal; the engaged woman holding a portrait photograph in "Yes"; portraits of George and Martha Washington and Henry W. Longfellow; chicks confronting "The Unwelcome Visitor" of a frog; a mother kissing the hand of her daughter - "Grandma's Pet" - in a highchair next to her grandmother; "The Angel's Message"; "A Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" family portrait; "The Young Student" reading on a grassy cliff overlooking a cove; puppies learning "The First Lesson" of hunting vermin; "Puss in Boots" showing a kitten in a boot; the buck "The Monarch of the Glen"; a girl covered in ink from her "Little Mischief" to write with a quill pen; children "Fruit Gatherers" at a fruit tree by a lake; and a woman on an evening "Meditation" near a sun dial., Copyrighted., Presented to every subscriber to The People’s Illustrated Fireside Magazine., Case shaped liked book binding and illustrated on recto and verso. Images include vignette showing a hearth and floral and geometric pictorial details., Text on spine reads: Premium with The Peoples Illustrated Fireside Magazine. 32 Gems., Prints numbered lower left corner: 1-2; 4-23; 26-33. Some in manuscript., Peleg Orison Vickery, publisher and politician, established Fireside Magazine in 1874. The periodical contained fictional stories and served as a mail order catalog., 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
1881
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection [P.2011.10.1a-dd]
Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Title
Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Description
Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.