Illustrated trade cards for R. & J. Beck opticians depicting children attired in long coats with an umbrella walking in the rain toward an anthropomorphic thermometer and children with binoculars and a telescope looking toward an anthropomorphic owl and moon. The owl gazes back through a telescope at the children and their dog. Founded in London in 1843, the company's name changed to R. & J. Beck in 1865., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Beck [1975.F.71-72]
Series of illustrated trade cards for optician William Y. McAllister's shop at 728 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict idyllic landscape views of a forest, a stream, a cottage and ruins by a lake and anthropomorphic frogs, a stork, and an owl looking through telescopes and binoculars, reading and fishing., Title supplied by cataloger., Calendar for 1881 printed on verso of one print [1975.F.614]., 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 - McAllister [1975.F.610-614]
