Illustrated mechanical calendar containing four genre scenes representing "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," and "Winter." Spring scene shows an organ grinder watching his "escaped" monkey walk across the balustrade portico of a city residence under the gaze of excited children. Summer scene shows a woman in bathing attire wading in the ocean. Piers are visible in the background. Autumn scene shows a horse-trotting race. Winter scene shows a masquerade ball. Also contains a vignette showing an hour glass adorned with wings and a pictorial detail depicting a ribbon at the center., Contains three rivets., Patent Applied For., 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
c1883
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Calendars [P.2011.10.167]
Ticket for the male musical ensemble performance society, probably in Philadelphia. Contains a whimsical border surrounding the text. Border includes cherubs holding sheet music, a harlequin, an impish figure, a harp, lion's head, and filigree. Also contains flourishes around the text., P.9349.145a printed with violet ink., P.9349.147b printed with black ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also proof of image [P.9349.150r].
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.145a&147b]
Ticket for the male musical ensemble performance society, probably in Philadelphia. Contains a whimsical border surrounding the text. Border includes cherubs holding sheet music, a harlequin, an impish figure, a harp, lion's head, and filigree. Also contains flourishes around the text., P.9349.145a printed with violet ink., P.9349.147b printed with black ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also proof of image [P.9349.150r].
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.145a&147b]
Ticket for the Phildelphia Jewish social club event containing vignettes and filigree. Vignettes show couples attired in medieval and peasant costumes. Also shows one of the costumed men holding a banner marked "MRA." The Mercantile Reading Association, originally the Mercantile Club, was established in 1853., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also the proofs before tint stones [P.9349.140e&154e].
Date
[1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153m]
Series of illustrated trade cards promoting performances and events at the Academy of Music. Illustrations depict men and women dressed in costumes and dancing and celebrating Carnival, including a joker disembarking from a gondola; a little girl sitting in a lily pad; fairies; angels; jokers; butterflies; flowers; bust portraits of unknown actors in the Humpty-Dumpty show surrounding a vignette of a horse-drawn cart carrying "humpty-dumpty"; portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Rial flanked by dogs; and L.H. Stockwell as lawyer Marks and his trained donkey Jerry. The Academy of Music was designed by architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge. Building constructed 1855-1857 at the southwest corner of Broad and Locust Streets. Served as home of Philadelphia Orchestra from 1900-2000., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Bailey, Banks & Biddle, The Courier Lith. Co., Reen Lith. Co., H.A. Thomas, and Maerz Lith. Co., One of prints [1975.F.1] die cut in shape of keystone., Several of the prints contain promotional text printed on the recto and/or verso. Performances and events promoted include the Reception of the Bi-Centennial Mystic Tableau Association; Grand Cannstatter Carneval; Cannstatter Bal Masque; Maennerchor Carneval Mardi Gras; the Fairy Juvenile Troupe's Little Red Riding Hood; German Comic Opera starring Mme. Marie Geistinger.; Humpty-Dumpty (performance); and The Jay Rial Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One print [P.2011.45.24] gift of David Doret., Digitized.
Date
1879-1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Academy of Music [1975.F.1; 1975.F.5; 1975.F.7; 1975.F.11; 1975.F.17; 1975.F.20; 1975.F.23-24; 1975.F.26; 1975.F.738; P.2011.45.24]
