Illustrated trade card depicting two ships on the ocean and crashing waves in the foreground., 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 - Misson [1975.F.633]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a postcard of a dwelling labeled "new home" tucked into flowers and a beach scene showing siblings (brother and sister) on the beach, a boat with a sail labeled "new home", and a sewing machine in the sky. The boy has a patch with the initials "N.H." sewn onto the back of his pants and a caption under their feet reads: Sister.--What are the wild waves saying? Brother.--This patch was put on by the light running new home sewing machine., One print [P.9737] contains seller's stamp on verso: G.A. Buck, dealer in sewing machines, organs, etc. Weissport, Penna., 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 - Ewing [P.9737 & P.9754]
Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. Gunzer, practical hair cutter, 34 North Broad Street, opposite Masonic Hall in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict flowers; children playing on the beach and in the ocean; comic scenes showing men, women and children ice skating, rowing a boat, playing on a swingset, and playing baseball; and portraits of old men and women dangling items to lure various animals, including a dog, an owl, a monkey, a rabbit, a cat, and a parakeet., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.366, 370, 374 & 376] copyrighted 1881 by M.F. Tobin, N.Y., Printers and engravers include Lloyd & Porter (Philadelphia) and M.F. Tobin (New York)., 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 - Gunzer [1975.F.353; 1975.F.357 & 358; 1975.F.363; 1975.F.366; 1975.F.370; 1975.F.374; 1975.F.376; 1975.F.388; 1975.F.390-397]
Series of illustrated trade cards for patent medicines and an almanac created by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations depict sirens with an "Ayer's hair vigor" shipping crate, hair brushes, and product bottles near a wrecked ship and stranded sailors; a girl holding flowers under a cherry tree in the countryside; Penn's Treaty with the Indians in 1682 with two men kneeling and presenting an "Ayer's cherry pectoral" scroll to the Native Americans; and two men and an apprentice with a printing press in a scene labeled "The invention of printing". J.C. Ayer & Co. operated in Lowell, Massachusetts from about 1850 to 1930., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9; 1975.F.11a] contain advertising text on versos for products prepared by J.C. Ayer & Co. including "Ayer's hair vigor" and "Ayer's cherry pectoral"., Printed on verso of print P.9111.11: To Bennie from Aunt Florence George. Eat drink and be merry and now will be happy all of the days of your life., 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 - Ayer [1975.F.2; 1975.F.9a; 1975.F.11a; P.9111.11]
