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]
Illustrated trade card depicting a soldier in uniform above a quote from Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience". Charles E. Ford continued the business of his father John T. Ford, who founded Ford's Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland in 1871., Excerpts entitled "The Garden" and "The Sea" from Oscar Wilde's "Our Continent" printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ford's [1975.F.309]
