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Title: [Tradecard for S. Drapers' Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Description: Trade card promoting Simeon Draper's touring stage company's production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Shows a grimacing monkey trying to force feed a dead rat to a small white dog by pulling its tail. A trap and water bowl lay at the animals' feet. Also shows a partial view of a dog house in the right., Title supplied by cataloger., Series no. printed on recto: B.7., Text printed on verso: Music Hall! One week, commencing Monday, May 19th. Family matinees – Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Gigantic revival! S. Drapers’ Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with attractions offered by no other Manager. 2 Great Topsy’s with songs, dances and banjo solos. 2 Funny Marks’. Pack of Cuban bloodhounds. The celebrated Nashville University students. The wonderful child artist, Little Libbie Putnam, as Eva. Popular prices, - 15, 25 and 35 cents. No extra. No higher. Matinee admission – 10, 15 and 25 cents., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Purchase 2006., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Gies & Co.
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - D [105880.D]

Title: Geo. W. Nock, locksmith, bell hanger and silver plater, 142 N. Fourth Street, Philadelphia All kinds of Brass and Light Iron Work done to order
Description: Trade card containing a comic view titled "We've Had a D__L Of A Time." Shows a well-dressed woman entering a disheveled room containing a parrot and monkey. The parrot greets the woman next to his overturned cage and in front of a rumpled bed on which a monkey sits. Debris covers the floor near an overturned chair and a broken mirror barely hangs from the wall. Also contains a "Business Directory" of twenty-one "Names and Address of Reliable Business men of Philadelphia, Pa." on verso. Businesses include Nock, as well as Columbia Laundry; J. D. Madden, Plumber & Gas Fitter; and C. F. Zimmerman, Musical Instruments., Printed on recto: Over., Copyrighted by H. Mellins in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C., 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: c1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.41]

Title: [The Universal Plow Company, Canton, Ohio]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting monkeys dressed as jockeys racing on the backs of three rabbits through a field. Also includes vignettes of the rear adjusting and the front adjusting plows on verso., Copyrighted 1888 by Chas. Brown., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal patent front and rear adjusting plows. General purpose for two or three horses. All parts interchangeable in steel or chilled iron. Repairs always fit. The lightest draft, the best work, adjustments unsurpassed, no wrench, no trouble, no lost time. Send for circular. Manufactured by The Universal Plow Co., Canton, Ohio., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: For sale by H.M. Bushman & Bro., Carlisle, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Universal [P.2002.67.12]

Title: [A. J. Chauveau trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for A.J. Chauveau's Philadelphia confectionery business at 110 South Eleventh Street. Illustrations depict a man courting a woman in Colonial garb in a garden; a boy and a monkey wearing the same style feathered hat sitting on top of a drum; and a vignette within an artist's palette depicting an idyllic coastal scene, including pedestrians, buildings, a docked sailboat, and a body of water., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.211] copyrighted 1881 by J.H.H., One print [1975.F.211] die cut and shaped into an artist's palette., One print [1975.F.211] contains advertising text on verso: A.J. Chauveau, manufacturer of choice caramels and pure confections, 110 South Eleventh St., six doors below Chestnut, 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 - Chauveau [1975.F.151; 1975.F.153; 1975.F.211]

Title: B.M. Weld, drugs & medicines, also boots, shoes, slippers, etc. Bradford, Vermont
Description: Series of three illustrated trade cards promoting druggist B.M. Weld. Depicts a white child raising the American flag on a flag pole; a framed image of two men walking beside a house under the moonlight superimposed onto a spray of flowers; and an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a white collared shirt, a green bowtie, and a blue jacket, who leans over the folded signboard containing the title, and dangles a red suit for a monkey, which sits in the lower right corner holding a red cap in its hand., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand, 2000., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7053-7055]

Title: Sine's tar, wild cherry, and hoarhound. Turkish ladies' noontime amusement, while gathering herbs for Sine's syrup of tar, wild cherry and hoarhound
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting Turkish women, a child and a monkey gathered outside playing with dolls on a string., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Sine's syrup of tar, wild cherry and hoarhound for the cure of coughs, colds, whooping cough, croup, asthma, bronchitis, tickling of the throat and all bronchial affections., 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 - Sine's [1975.F.792]

Title: Noix de coco, manufactured by Warner & Merritt, Philadelphia For puddings, pies and pastry
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting indigenous men and women serving a white woman in a tropical paradise. She relaxes in a hammock as a man fans her with a paddle fan, a woman sets a tray of food next to her, and a man gathers coconuts into a basket. Additional imagery includes palm trees, a fountain, a monkey, a parrot, and pineapples. Warner & Merritt began importing fruit in Philadelphia ca. 1869 and were one of the largest firms importing West Indian fruit in the country by the time of their insolvency in 1884., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Warner [P.9947]

Title: [St. George Pharmacy trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for J.F. Hayes' St. George Pharmacy at the southwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. Products advertised include soda water, Saint George Cologne, and soda mint tablets. Illustrations depict monkeys, flowers, flowers in vases, paddle fans, and a clown. Also shows a group of people speeding down a snowy slope on a large wooden sled. Turkeys dodge the oncoming sled in the foreground and a dog chases it in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.350] copyrighted 1877 by J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston)., Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston)., Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos., 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 - Saint George [1975.F.350 & 351; 1975.F.359; 1975.F.414; 1975.F.416-419; 1975.F.441]

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