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Title: Ville de Paris, Dauphin, 18, E. 14th Str., New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the title displayed on a signboard with a crown surrounded by flowering vines, a winged cherub and a bust statue., Advertising text printed on verso promotes W. Dauphin's "city of Paris" where flowers, garnitures, ball and bridal outfits, mourning goods, and hair dressing services are provided., 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 - Dauphin [1975.F.891]

Title: Thitchener & Glastaeter, steam job printers, 14 & 16 Vesey St., New York Job printing of every description. Invitations, programmes, for balls and parties. Fine color work a specialty. Wedding invitations, cards, monograms
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the monogram of Thitchener & Glastaeter within gilt-lined borders., 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 - Thitchener [P.9111.10]

Title: Greenfield's candies. 909 Broadway
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a man and a dog playing tug of war with a goose near the edge of a pond., 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 - Greenfield's [1975.F.367]

Title: Wilbur & Hastings, stationers & printers, lithographers, blank book manufacturers, publishers of Martin's equation tables, 39 Fulton Street, (Fulton Bank Building,) New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an American flag facing right., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wilbur [5786.F.16b]

Title: Maillard's chocolate
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two girls, one in bed, the other seated in a chair nearby, drinking hot chocolate. A dog has its front paws on the bed begging for hot chocolate. Boxes and packages of Maillard's "breakfast cocoa," "dietetic cocoa," and "pure cocoa" are piled in the foreground. Prize medals awarded to Henry Maillard are depicted in the upper left and upper right corners above the title., Retail price-list of Maillard's chocolates and notification of their gold medal prize at the Paris Exhibition in 1878 printed on verso., 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 - Maillard's [1975.F.621]

Title: W.W. Reed, china & glass ware, lamps & oils, No. 450 Sixth Avenue, bet. 27th & 28th Sts., New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bird and 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 - Reed [1975.F.746]

Title: Nolan & Counsellor, fruits, flowers, &c. 1146 Broadway, bet. 26th and 27th Streets, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bird and a rose adjacent to a scroll with the title inscribed on it., 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 - Nolan [1975.F.697]

Title: [E. & H.T. Anthony trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards containing patriotic vignettes. Images include eagles clutching olive branches, arrows, and shields in their talons and a woman, possibly Liberty, clothed in robes. Pictorial details also include an "E plurubus unum" banner., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints (2)5786.F.117d, g-h printed in blue ink on green paper and envelope (2)5786.F.117j printed in green ink on blue paper., Advertising text printed on rectos for E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway - New York (3 doors from St. Nicholas Hotel), manufacturer, publisher, and importer of photographic materials, carte de visite photographs, stereoscopic views, and card portraits of eminent persons., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Edward and Henry Tiebout Anthony operated one of the largest photographic manufacturing and distribution businesses in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Anthony [(2)5786.F.117d, g-h, j; P.9631.1]

Title: Chas. Franke, dyeing and cleaning establishment. Office. 1212 Broadway. 532 & 534 Eighth Ave. 59 Division Street, 613 W. 46th St Dyeing and cleaning by the new dry process. Laces done up equal to new
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a peacock and flowers., 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 - Franke [1975.F.305]

Title: [Old Judge cigarettes, Goodwin & Co., New York, U.S.A.]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting patent information printed in gold on red bands attached to "Old Judge" cigarettes and surrounded by a scroll, florettes, geometric shaped-borders, and ornate text. Goodwin & Co. merged with other tobacco companies in 1890 to form the American Tobacco Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso entitled, "Important for cigarette smokers to know," promotes the rice paper (patented in 1878) used in "Old Judge" cigarettes produced by Goodwin & Co., 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 - Old [1975.F.365]

Title: [Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait of a little girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat., Text, including list of twenty-one directors, printed on verso: Organized 1859. Germania Fire Insurance Company, of New York, office, No. 175 Broadway., 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 - Germania [1975.F.347]

Title: John D. Cutter & Co. manufacturers of pure silk threads & fabrics Sewing silks, embroidery tablets, machine & button-hole twist. Gros grains, satin de chine, serge, handkerchiefs, braids, &c. &c
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a silk worm on a mulberry leaf, a butterfly, cocoons, and two spools of thread., 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 - Cutter [1975.F.118]

Title: D.S.B. & Co. New York. Soap makers & perfumers
Description: Die cut trade card shaped into a painting palette with an illustration in the center depicting a boy wearing a straw hat and shoulder bag with a fishing rod in his left hand. He wades through a pond or lake toward a signboard reading "D.S.B & Co. New York"., Advertising text printed on verso: Presented by D.S. Brown and Company New York who manufacture the largest & most complete line of toilet soaps in the country. Also a fine line of toilet extracts. Lawn lilac a specialty., 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 - D.S. Brown & Co. [1975.F.29]

Title: Vienna pudding, G.W. Barlow, manufacturer, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a male server carrying pudding and spilling the tray as a dog runs under his feet. Another man, amused by the scene in front of him, carries a stack of plates and men and women seated at a dining table in the next room watch as the dessert spills., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Barlow's specialties", including Vienna pudding, English plum pudding, blanc mange, browned flour, and Piercy's purity flavoring extracts., 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 - Vienna [1975.F.895]

Title: [Simpson's millinery, laces and trimmings' store trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for J. & J. Simpson's millinery, laces and trimmings' store at 725 and 727 Sixth Avenue, near 42nd Street in New York. Illustrations depict flowers; owls perched on a branch of a flowering tree; a girl feeding birds under the supervision of a woman; a naked cherub figure riding on the back of a turtle; and a little girl picking flowers and collecting them in her toy wagon., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints copyrighted 1880 by F. Todd and numbered 245., Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford & Co., 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 - Simpson's [1975.F.753; 1975.F.797; 1975.F.804; 1975.F.854 & 855]

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., 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 - London [1975.F.500]

Title: Compliments of the MacKinnon Pen Company
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for MacKinnon Pen Company tucked into a spray of flowers., Distributor's stamp on verso: E.H. White, agt., Mackinnon Pen Co., 333 & 335 Chest. St., Phila., 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 - MacKinnon [1975.F.576]

Title: Smoke the "owl" cigar 5¢
Description: Illustrated trade card and ornament die cut and shaped into a birdcage containing an owl perched on a cigar labeled "owl". Duplicate image printed on verso. The cigar manufacturing concern Straiton & Storm, producer of the "Owl" cigars, was founded in New York City in 1863., 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 - Owl [P.9983.3]

Title: [Thermaline, manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co., New York]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers surrounded by a decorative border., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Thermaline as a remedy for chills and fever, fever and ague, all malarial diseases, liver complaint, dyspepsia, general debility, rheumatism, neuralgia, sick headache, colds, slight catarrh and other pulmonary diseases., 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 - Thermaline [1975.F.875]

Title: Frank Miller & Sons, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting five containers in ascending size order of Frank Miller's carriage top dressing and the arms of someone pouring the varnish into a container from a five gallon jug., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Miller [P.9993.4]

Title: Pratt's astral oil
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting four children having a tea party and cooking by the glow of lamps labeled "Pratt's astral oil". Charles Pratt & Co., founded in New York in 1867, specialized in illuminating oil and was incorporated into John D. Rockerfeller's Standard Oil in 1874., Advertising text printed on versos is surrounded by a floral border and promotes Pratt's astral oil for any activity in the household, including "reading, writing, sewing, or any occupation requiring a soft, steady and uniform light". Chas. Pratt & Co. listed at No. 128 Pearl Street, New York., Distributor's imprint printed on versos: D.C. Smith, wholesale agent, 1126 Market Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pratt [1975.F.663 & 1975.F.712]

Title: Whitmore's stationery and leathergoods are standard for style and quality
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl standing and holding a large piece of paper as a boy kneels on the ground in front of her and writes on the paper with a quill pen. Includes an inkstand and quill pen on the table behind them., Advertising text printed on verso: Whitmore's fine stationery and leather goods of superior quality for sale by all first class stationers & booksellers. Paper & envelopes for fashionable correspondence, visiting cards, wedding and party invitations, ball programmes, menu and dinner cards in the correct fashionable sizes, shapes and tints and of finest quality. Leather fancy goods in great variety of novel designs for wedding, birthday and holliday gifts. James D. Whitmore & Co., New York., 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 - Whitmore [1975.F.944]

Title: Cloaks & Dolmans in every style at Ehrichs' Eighth Avenue & 24 th St. The largest assortment and the lowest prices in the city
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a dog attired in a jacket standing on its hind legs and performing tricks for a treat dangled above him by a woman., Title from advertising text printed on verso., Trimmed., 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 - Ehrichs [1975.F.152]

Title: Finale of a breakfast on biscuits made of Heckers' self-raising flour
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders smoking a pipe. Heckers' self-raising flour was introduced in 1850 by Hecker & Brother, a partnership started in 1843 between John Hecker, Jr. and George Valentine Hecker in New York City., Advertising text printed on verso: Housekeepers should always be ready to take advantage of anything that will lighten their laborous duties and relieve them from some of the many vexations that are sure to occur in their busy lives. Certainty of results, saving of time, trouble and labor are only a few of the many advantages that may be gained from using Hecker's self-raising flour. This flour comes put up in 3 and 6 lb. packages, ready for use at a moment's notice; requires no salt, yeast or baking powder. Only the exact proportions of raising material are put in, thus insuring a perfect certainty. Your grocer sells it. Directions on every package., 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 - Heckers [1975.F.411]

Title: R.L. Shute, 695 Broadway, below 4th St., west side, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., Advertising text printed on verso: Fancy goods, chromos, vases, picture frames, swiss carvings, gold pens, fans, stationery, etc. Wedding & visiting card engraving. The following at wholesale and retail: decalcomanie, gilt and velvet frames, passe-partouts, colors, gold bronze, brushes, wax flower materials, envelopes, and diaphanie. Varnish to preserve natural leaves. 695 Broadway, New York., 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 - Shute [1975.F.778]

Title: Dundas Dick & Co.'s compliments. 1776-1876
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Dundas Dick & Co. inset into autumn leaves. Commemorates the Centennial year in 1876., Contains calendars for 1876 and 1877 printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dundas [1975.F.271]

Title: Colgate & Co.'s "new" soap. The "new" soap in oval cakes unequalled for laundry use
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a newsboy, with a bag of newspapers slung over his shoulder and a paper advertising "new" soap in his left hand, standing and leaning against a wall on the sidewalk. A dog sits at his feet. A broadside for Colgate & Co.'s "New" soap hangs on the wall behind him. William Colgate founded the company as William Colgate & Company in New York City in 1806. Upon his death in 1857, the style changed to Colgate & Company., Advertising text printed on verso: To our patrons. Thanking you for your favorable reception of our "new" soap, we beg you again to ask your special attention to its peculiar and substantial advantages in the matter of economy, when used (as it always should be) according to directions printed on the wrappers. To meet the requirements of all classes of buyers as to the size cake they may specially prefer, we put up the "New" soap in 9 oz. and 16 oz. cakes, the prices of which vary proportionately. Soliciting your continued patronage, we remain, respectfully, Colgate & Co., 53 and 55 John Street, New York. Established 1806., 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 - Colgate [1975.F.179]

Title: [Carter Medicine Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a large frog towering over a small, frightened child and a little girl pointing and instructing her ailing grandfather to take Carter's back ache plasters., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos for products made and sold by Carter Medicine Co., including "Carter's little nerve pills" and "smart weed and belladonna back ache pilasters"., 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 - Carter [1975.F.131; 1975.F.134]

Title: The great capadura has been, is now, and ever shall be the best 5 ct. cigar in the world
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a scantily-clad woman standing with her elbows propped on the back of an armchair in front an ornate drape., Advertising text printed on verso: The three champions! Capadura half dime, capadura de la reina, capadura olivette. Dealers only supplied by R.C. Brown & Co. New York. Branch, 601 and 603 Market St. 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 - R.C. Brown & Co. [1975.F.223a]

Title: [Lu Lu, the man bird]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting Lu Lu the man bird wearing a hat with wings and winged shoes flying in the air over circus tents, one of them labeled "Lu Lu". Lu Lu the man bird was one of the main features of W.C. Coup's Monster Four-Ring Circus and Paris Hippodrome., Title supplied by cataloger from text printed on verso., Advertising text promoting the Great Paris Hippodrome and W. C. Coup's New United Monster Shows printed on verso., 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 - Great [1975.F.505]

Title: [Theo. Ricksecker's trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a jester and a frog performing a variety of activities, including the jester playing a banjo and the frog dancing; the frog posing and the jester sketching his portrait; and the frog bound to a leaf stem and the jester aiming a bow and arrow at an apple on top of the frog's head., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Ricksecker's skin soap, reliable perfumes, Fifth Avenue Cologne, and face powder., 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 - Ricksecker [1975.F.747-749]

Title: Coughlin & Eldredge, book store, Binghamton, N. Y. 60. 60. 60
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub seated on and shaded by large leaves. Includes wheat and butterflies., 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 - Coughlin [P.9111.4]

Title: Andrew D. Cramer, wholesale & retail grocer, 241 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting business card adorned by a vignette of a woman standing under an open umbrella in the rain. Business card bordered by a blossoming tree branch and a black umbrella., Copyright 1883 George Perry., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Cramer [P.8666.3b]

Title: Compliments J.C. Rushton, Rushton's Pharmacy, Racquet Club Building, New York
Description: Trade card promoting J.C. Rushton's pharmacy. Shows a blue and white porcelain vase and bowl decorated with flowers in front of red grass. In the bottom are three flying cranes. Decorative geometric border surrounds the card., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso promotes various products made and sold by J.C. Rushton from his business in the Racquet Club Building, 6th Avenue, cor. 26th Street in New York, including Rushton's celebrated cold cream of roses, fine toilet colognes, lily white, sachet powders, perfumed camphor ice with glycerine, glycerine lotion, tonique de ricine a la quinine, glyco bayline, sweet hyacinth pomade, floral tooth paste, saponine, Peruvian saponaceous, and indelible ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: Berman Trade Card Collection - Patridge's [P.2015.56.662]
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Rushton [P.9828.6704]

Title: Devlin & Co.'s Centennial souvenir. 1776-1876
Description: Illustrated souvenir trade card depicting two full-length figures of men modeling period clothing, one attired in Colonial dress and the other attired in a plaid suit, popular in the 1870s. Patriotic symbols separate and surround the figures, including stars, banners and an American eagle with a shield on its breast, clutching flags and the banner "E pluribus unum" in its talons., Contains advertising text (partially illegible after removing from scrapbook) printed on verso for Devlin & Co.'s leading American clothing house in two locations in New York City: Broadway and Grand St. and Broadway and Warren St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Devlin [5758.F.19e]

Title: [Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York)., One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c.", 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 - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]

Title: Summit Water, from Harrison, Maine, the invaluable tonic that builds up the debilitated
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Summit Water by Myers, Suter & Co., managers, 304 Broadway, New York. Illustrations depict a driver standing beside a lady seated in a goat-drawn carriage parked in front of two peacocks and entrance stairs. Also shows a drummer in uniform carrying an American flag indoors with a large eagle, dog, rabbits, an owl and various birds., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Summit Mineral Spring Water for "kidney and liver disorders, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, and general debility.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Myers [1975.F.845 & 846]

Title: Decker Bros. matchless pianos, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait of a woman grasping the branch of a flowering tree with her right hand. Includes a vignette on verso of a piano. Brothers David and John Decker began prducing pianos in New York in 1865., Contains advertising text printed on verso: Decker Brothers, grand, upright & square pianos. Incomparable in workmanship, matchless in tone, artistic in design, unequalled in durability, moderate in price. 33 Union Square, New York. W. G. Fischer, 1210 Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 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 - Decker [P.9577.15]

Title: Annie Fox Between the Acts Cigarettes
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of actress Annie Fox., Advertising text printed in ornate banners and surrounded by filigree on verso: Between the Acts Cigarettes, Thos. H. Hall, manufacturer, New York., 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 - Between [1975.F.454]

Title: [B.T. Babbitt's Best trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for B.T. Babbitt's Best products. Illustrations depict children engaged in various activities, including playing with a dog and a cat, washing laundry, fishing, and painting; children attired in adult Colonial dress with wigs; a boy dressed in a soldier's uniform surrounded by patriotic symbols, including a sword, drum, horn, cannon, cannon balls, and an American flag; boys chivalrously offering girls bars of soap; and vignettes of people from various nations surrounding a bird's eye view of B.T. Babbitt's manufactory complex bounded by Washington, West, Rector, and Morris Streets in New York City. Babbitt was purportedly the first company to manufacture and market soap in individual bars in 1851., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include the Hatch Lith. Co. and Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., Prints contain advertising text on versos for B.T. Babbitt's Best products, including soap, baby soap, medicinal yeast, and laundry powder. Within the illustrations, seven prints depict a box labeled "B.T. Babbitt's 1776 trademark. New York City," and six include the motto, "Soap for all nations. Cleanliness is the scale of civilization.", 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 - Babbitt [1975.F.57; 1975.F.59; 1975.F.63; 1975.F.87;1975.F.89; 1975.F.91; 1975.F.92; 1975.F.100; P.8666.3e; P.8666.3f; P.8666.3g; P.8666.3h]

Title: Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shall judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth. PS. 67-4
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bird perched on a branch of a flowering tree., Copyrighted 1878 by Wemple & Kronheim, N.Y., Contains the Central News Company's (Phila.) net price list of Wemple & Kronheim's day and Sunday School reward cards (Series No. 1-36) printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Miriam Levy., Digitized.
Date: c1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Central [P.8666.3a]

Title: Rolling cigarette
Description: Illustrated trade card for W. Duke Sons & Co., a manufacturing branch of the American Tobacco Co., depicting a female bicycle and trick rider performing in costume. She rolls a cigarette and sits on a penny-farthing or high wheeled bicycle. Also includes a small vignette of a bicycle on verso., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Honest long cut, the best smoking and chewing tobacco.", One of twenty-five cards included with tobacco packages and issued as one of a series by the American Tobacco Co., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Tobacco [P.2002.9.2]

Title: Gantz, Jones & Co.'s sea foam
Description: Series of trade cards containing captioned scenes in silhouette and profile, including racist imagery, that promote and portray the use of the New York firm's baking powder in cooking. "The First Lesson in Cooking" shows a matron-like figure (in the right) holding out a can of "Sea Foam" baking powder to three young woman standing in a row (in the left). The older woman is attired in a long-sleeved dress with a tiered skirt and bustle, spectacles, and an adornment in her hair. The young women wear long-sleeved dresses with tiered skirts and bustles and hair ornaments that resemble pointed caps. The woman closest to the matron also holds a parasol in her right hand and the woman in the far left also wears a long braid that runs down her back. The women look at and lean toward the baking powder can with interest. "Mine is the Best" shows a woman home cook and a professional male cook facing off. In the right, the man, holds his right hand in a fist, and points behind himself to a table on which a can of "Sea Foam" and a bowl rest. In the left, the woman points at him with her left hand and with her right hand points behind herself at a table on which a bowl and two canisters rest. The man wears a mustache, baker's hat, long smock, and pants. The woman wears a long-sleeved dress with an apron. "Missus, We'll Nebber Use Any Odder!" shows an African American man, portrayed with exaggerated features, and holding an extra-large "Sea Foam" can, walking toward a stove at which a woman is kneeled and placing something in the oven. A pot and tea kettle rest atop of the stove across from the stove pipe. The woman wears her hair down and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with ruffles at the bodice and a skirt with bustle., Gantz, Jones, & Co. was originally established as a chemical business in 1849 by Thomas Andrews. George W. Gantz joined the firm in 1853. About 1869 Andrews retired and in 1877 Walter H. Gantz and F. B. Jones joined the business as partners. In 1884 the firm's New York warehouse was heavily damaged by fire and in 1890 the partnership dissolved. Following the 1856 patent of the first modern baking powder, several later 19th-century chemical firms, including Gantz, Jones & Co. attempted to capitalize on the new, very profitable baking powder industry. Baking powder significantly lessened leaving times for baking and cooking, and multiple companies began to market either cream of tartar or alum based powders that required no combining at home. The "Baking Powder Wars" mired in propaganda about the pure and safe properties of various firms' products ended in the early 20th century with alum baking powder companies Clabber Girl and Calumet dominating the American industry., Title from items., Date inferred from attire of figures portrayed and format of advertisements., Advertising text printed on verso of P.2018.6.3.1, "The First Lesson in Cooking": It is a first-class article, and will do more than it claims to do, and never fails to do its work well. Good health makes labor of all kinds easier and prolongs life. Sea foam is warranted to make better, lighter, healthier, sweeter, more toothsome and more [in italics] digestive [in italics] and nutritious bread, biscuits, cakes, puddings, etc., than can be made in any other way. Those who use it say: "We prefer it over all others." "It is A No. 1." "Gives universal satisfaction.", Advertising text printed on verso of P.2018.6.3.2,"Mine is the Best": SEA FOAM BAKING POWDER IS PERFECTLY PURE. Those who have used it once will never use any other. The BEST in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD. Without an equal. It is the perfection of science in cookery. Your cookery will be always good. You will always have a good cook. It makes every cook a good one. Your bread will never be sour. Light, well-raised bread, biscuits, and cakes digest easily and conduce to good health., Advertising text printed on verso of P.2018.6.3.3, "Missus, We'll Nebber Use any Odder!": Bread is always good. Cannot be beaten. Champion Yeast Powder of America. Every body likes it. Sells like hot cakes. The best customers ask for it. It is A No. 1. The ladies never get tired of telling each other about it. All first-class stores keep it. Gantz's Sea Foam is perfectly pure. Without an equal [in italics]. It is an entirely new invention. Never fails to make light bread. To avoid dyspepsia, use Sea Foam. One can is worth three of any other., Captions printed in all capitals., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gantz, Jones & Co. [P.2018.6.3.1-3]

Title: Arbuckle's ariosa coffee. Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Company, New York
Description: One of a series of "fifty" trade cards, "each one of which shows a correct map (properly bounded) of one State, or Territory" to promote Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee. Depicts a map of Alabama (left) and a scene with African American men and women picking cotton in a cotton field (right). Scene shows a man in the foreground placing cotton in a basket piled high with it. In the center, right background, a woman stands and holds a large basket piled high with cotton on her head. In the distant background, two men and three women bend over and pick cotton from the plants. A piece of harvesting equipment is visible in the far left background. The men and women wear long sleeve shirts and hats or bonnets. Arbuckle's Coffee was founded by brothers John and Charles Arbuckle following the Civil War. The company was one of the first to sell roasted coffee and to place it in one pound packages. Arbuckle often included trade cards in the packages., Title from item., Image captions: Cotton Picking; Population 1,262,[ ]5; Area in Sq. Miles 52,250., Date inferred from content, dates of activity of lithographer, and reference to Washington which gained statehood in 1889 as a territory., Series number printed on verso: No. 67., Several lines of advertising text printed on verso explicating why Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee "costs more and is worth more than other brands of coffee," including higher grade green coffee and the "glazing" process. Also includes a "Read This." section describing the series of cards as "interesting, instructive, and artistic," and their purpose as and "object lesson or both young and old." Section ends with the alphabetical list of 50 states and territories depicted. Washington, New Mexico, and Wyoming are listed as territories., RVCDC, Description reviewed 2022., Access points revised 2022., Some degradation to image.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Arbuckle's [P.2017.44]

Title: Celluloid waterproof collars, cuffs & shirt bosoms
Description: Trade card advertising celluloid collars and cuffs and depicting a caricature of a Japanese woman. Shows the Japanese woman wearing her hair up and adorned with kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono with a celluloid collar and cuffs and geta shoes with celluloid on the bottom. She walks with her right hand holding her kimono up and carries a parasol made of celluloid. She walks through grass with pink flowers in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: Celluloid (Waterproof linen.) Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms. The following will commend the use of these goods to all who study convenience, neatness and economy. The interior is fine linen. The exterior is Celluloid – the union of which combines the strength of Linen with the Waterproof qualities of Celluloid. The Trouble and expense of washing is saved. When soiled simply rub with soap and water (hot or cold) used freely with a stiff brush. They are perspiration proof and are invaluable to travelers, saving all care of laundrying. Advice. In wearing the turn-down Collar, always slip the Necktie under the roll. Do not attempt to straighten the fold. The goods will give better satisfaction if the Separable Sleeve Button and Collar Button is used. Twist a small rubber elastic or chamois washer around the post of Sleeve Button to prevent possible rattling of Button. To remove Yellow Stains, which may come from long wearing, use Sapolio, Soap or Saleratus water or Celluline, which latter is a new preparation for cleansing Celluloid. Goods for sale by all dealers., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Celluloid [P.2025.35.2]

Title: Niagara corn starch, Wesp, Lautz Bros. & Co., Buffalo, N.Y
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy standing in a corn field holding an ear of corn comparable in size to him., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Acme soap and Niagara starch as "the purest, the sweetest, the best"., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Mrs. A. Gelzer, wholesale and retail grocer, N.W. corner of 3d and Green Streets, Philadelphia. Manuscript note above address: Chester. Refers most likely to Loretta Gelzer, wife of Peter Gelzer, who operated a grocery store at 600 North Third Street in 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 - Wesp [P.9651.15]

Title: Shirrell's Kulliyun washing crystal, Shirrell & Co., Buffalo, N.Y The great labor saver
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a woman attired in a sheer white blouse that exposes the upper half of her body. She holds over her head a box of Shirrell's Kulliyun Washing Crystal and props her right foot next to a washboard on an overturned washtub. Draped over her arm is a multi-colored banner reading "the great labor saver"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humani+ties (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **trade card - Shirrell [1975.F.2a]

Title: [Duryeas' Glen Cove Manufacturing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a bird's eye view of Duryea's manufactory in Glen Cove, New York; facsimilies of prize medals awarded the company, including the obverse and reverse sides of the gold medal awarded at the Paris Exposition in 1878; and a man posting a broadside advertisement for "Duryea's improved cornstarch" on the side of a brick building as two children and a dog stand nearby and watch., Printers and engravers include the Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., Includes advertising text promoting Duryea's improved corn starch and satin gloss starch 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 - Duryea's [1975.F.250; 1975.F.252; 1975.F.256; 1975.F.267]

Title: Cluett, Peabody & Co., collar makers
Description: Illustrated trade card and easel cutout shaped into an upturned hand displaying a collar. Cluett, Peabody & Co., manufacturers of men's shirt collars, began as Maullin & Blanchard in 1851 in Troy, New York. After several style changes, Cluett, Peabody & Co. officially formed in 1899., Directions to display easel cutout printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Cluett [P.9983.6]

Title: Ask for P. Cox & Bro.'s fine shoes
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two cobblers in a shop, one seated and working on a shoe, while the other man shows the sole of a boot to a well-dressed male customer. Patrick Cox moved his shoe business to Rochester, New York in 1871, which in 1876 became P. Cox & Bro. when his brother J.D. Cox became a partner. The style changed to P. Cox Shoe Manufacturing Co. in 1881., Distributor's stamp on recto: Nash?, 220 Sixth Avenue, cor. 15th Street, New York., 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 - Cox [1975.F.204]

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