Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a winter snow scene inset into a bouquet of flowers., Copyrighted 1882 by Frank Vernon, N.Y., Series title printed on recto in lower left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
c1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clark [P.9728.12]
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., James W. Brown relocated his tailoring business from 34 South Seventh Street to 136 South Sixth Street in 1864.
Date
[ca. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brown [(2)5786.F.184c]
Illustrated trade card for Mrs. George M. Baker's stationery and fancy goods shop depicting a lamp flanked by flowers and a decorative fan., 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 - Baker [P.9111.23]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the flags of France, Germany, Norway, Russia, and Sweden., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints contain advertising text on versos for A. & J. B. Bartholomew's children's clothing store at 23 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Three prints [1975.F.78; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.117] include text that advertises "kid gloves, parasols, hosiery, underwear, neckwear, &c." and two prints [1975.F.106 and 1975.F.114] serve as admission tickets to the store., 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 - Bartholomew [1975.F.78; 1975.F.106; 1975.F.111; 1975.F.114; 1975.F.117]
Illustrated trade card depicting brass rods, fire pokers, a cross, a rail, and other brass hardware. A drape containing the company's name hangs from a brass rod., Advertising text printed on verso: Established 1832. M. Gould's Sons & Co. Manufacturers of stair rods and upholsterers' hardware. Artistic and ecclesiastical brasswork a specialty. Brass curtain poles of all descriptions. No. 8 North Sixth St., Philadelphia. Manufactory, Newark, N.J., 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 - Gould [1975.F.387]
Trade card die cut and shaped into a circle with gilt text and decorative floral border. Owned and operated by New York native George Gay., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gay's [1975.F.346]
Illustrated stock trade card depicting a sphere labeled "Our Country" partially submerged in water and surmounted by an American flag flying to the right. Includes various styles of hats on a rack printed on verso., Advertising text printed on verso is partially obscured by paper remaining after removing trade card from scrapbook: Edward Geary, fashion, hat & cap store, [81]4 North Second Street, above Brown, Philadelphia. Hats and caps made to order. (Over.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Geary [5786.F.176g]
Trade card for the Philadelphia lithographer active ca. 1849-ca. 1880s. Shows cherubic figures sowing seeds and reaping sheaths of wheat. Also contains flying birds and vinery details. Textual elements include Gothic and cursive letters. Traubel operated from 146 South Eighth street beginning in 1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 119.1, See POSA 119, LOC proof copies of trade card., LCP copy acquired after 2010., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 70-71.
Creator
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
Date
[ca. 1881]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Traubel [P.2016.24.1]
Series of illustrated trade cards for John Mundell & Co.'s solar tip shoes manufactured in Philadelphia. One illustration, labeled "Girard College Philada, where 200 boys wear our solar tip shoes," depicts a small group of girls watching a large group of boys playing ball on the lawn in front of Founder's Hall, Girard College. A marching band passes through in the background. Also shows two scenes, "The foolish man" depicting a flustered father surrounded by bills and upset children wearing worn shoes juxtaposed with "The wise man" who purchased solar tip shoes and is surrounded by happy, smiling children. Girard College, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter and constructed between 1833-1847, occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos includes John Mundell & Co.'s trademark and promotes solar tip shoes., Distributor's imprint printed on verso of P.9806: At wholesale by McKee & Branham, Indianapolis, Ind., Distributors' imprints printed on verso of P.9800: wholesale dealers, Dunn, Salmon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; sold at retail by M.E. Aldrich, Philadelphia, N.Y., 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 - Mundell [P.9800 & P.9806]
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy pushing a lawn mower in the grass of the Sunken Gardens in the foreground and the southwest elevation of Horticultural Hall in the background. Also shows a fountain and a man guiding a horse-drawn mower. The exhibition hall was built in 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann in West Fairmount Park for the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Building demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Price list organized by lawn mower style printed on verso., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Engle, Buchner & Kramer, hardware, 22 Main Street, Dayton, Ohio., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1888]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.9748]
Series of illustrated trade cards for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, a daily evening newspaper published between 1847 and 1982. Illustrations depict a girl standing in an enclosed yard with a flower in her left hand and a paddle in her right and a series of four prints showing buildings constructed for the Centennial Exhibition in West Fairmount Park, including the Main Exhibition Building, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Agricultural Hall. Buildings designed by Henry Pettit, Joseph M. Wilson, James H. Windrim, and Hermann J. Schwarzmann. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians travel through the landscaped grounds in the foreground of each image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [P.2008.22.6-9] contain text printed on verso: Compliments of the Evening Bulletin., 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 - Philadelphia [1975.F.715 & P.2008.22.6-9]
Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Noon," "Morning," "Evening," and "Night" depicting a woman lounging on a hammock; a woman waking a child and pointing to the rising sun; a woman walking with a child asleep in her arms and an older child by her side; and a woman tucking in two children asleep in bed. These rectangular vignettes are surrounded by additional imagery, including plants, flowers, butterflies, birds and owls., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Simes' apothecary at the northwest corner of Twentieth and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia and some of his products, including Cryoline (a silver polish), egg soda, and ginger ale., 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 - Simes [1975.F.835; 1975.F.842-844]
Trade card promoting John D. Patton and depicting a catamaran with a dragon on the sail. Shows a vignette of a wooden catamaran with a red sail decorated with a dragon traveling on the water. Four men, attired in white shorts, sit and stand on the boat. A large crane and other birds fly in the sky. Vignette is set over a red background with decorative leaves and a scroll with the advertising text. John F. Patton relocated to York, Pennsylvania from Baltimore and started his drug business in 1869., Title from item., Dare inferred from content., Advertising text printed on verso: You will never go amiss, if you go to Wallick’s Book Store, to make your purchases, books and stationery, pictures & frames, and a great variety of fancy goods. Remember Wallick’s Book Store. The city drug store is the best place in York, to buy drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet articles, perfumery, &c., &c. and John F. Patton, is the man to sell them to you, and don’t you forger it., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Patton [P.9828.6582]
Illustrated trade card depicting a man hanging from a flagpole, gripping a hammer in his right hand. The Union flag faces right., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Magee [(2)5786.F.120a]
Illustrated trade card depicting a waterfall, butterfly and scroll inscribed with the title. Mahlon Bryan & Co. was a partnership between tailor Mahlon Bryan and cutter Dagobert M. Rattay, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mahlon [1975.F.639]
Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Henry H. McCargo tucked into a spray of flowers., Advertising text promoting the "New Home Sewing Machine" and the "Improved Domestic, the Genuine Singer, No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, American, Household" printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Walter Bethel., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McCargo [P.9300]
Series of illustrated trade cards for McIlvaine & Co., grocers, at Juniper and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict various birds, flowers and women outside feeding birds, picking flowers, and sitting near the ocean., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints copyrighted 1879 by Bufford's Boston., Three prints, part of "Series No. 9", copyrighted by Wemple & Kronheim, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1879]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McIlvaine [1975.F.324; 1975.F.581; 1975.F.629 & 630; 1975.F.643; 1975.F.649 & 650]
Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., Manuscript note on verso: B. Spatz, 2031 North 11th., 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 - Lorsch [1975.F.499]
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl standing on large daffodil petals. The boy holds the girl's hands to help her down from a taller flower., 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 - Mackey [1975.F.710]
Series of illustrated trade cards for Dudley L. Page's "pure candy" and "Boston candy manufactory" at 918 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict hands holding bunches of flowers and a cricket player attired in uniform holding his cricket bat in the air., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.673] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., 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 - Page [1975.F.673 & 1975.F.681-683]
Illustrated trade card depicting a colorful dragon and a smaller insect., 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 - Painter [1975.F.719]
Illustrated trade card depicting a "cut-i-cure-u" saw., Advertising text and prices printed on verso for the "cut-i-cure-u wood saw" produced by the J. Barton Smith Company, Gilbert Parker, treasurer, s.e. cor. Fourth and Somerset Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 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 - Parker's [P.2002.67.13]
Manuscript note on recto: Phone 112 W.P., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1892]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stokes [P.2006.20.37]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting patriotic imagery, including an eagle grasping an American shield and laurel wreath in its talons and group of men with their arms raised in celebration as one man holds a large American flag., Price lists printed on versos for various cards, books, circulars, tickets and other job printing items., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Thayer's [1975.F.882 & 883]
Series of illustrated trade cards for G. Milliken & Sons at 828 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a vignette of a loom surrounded by a garland of holly and a woman seated working at a loom. G. Milliken's linen store was established in 1846 for the importation and sale of pure linen goods of every description., One print [1975.F.637] copyrighted 1877 by L. Prang & Co. and printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila., One print [1975.F.637] contains advertising text promoting G. Milliken's linen products printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
1877-1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Milliken's [1975.F.636 & 637]
Illustrated stock trade card depicting Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak). Includes geometric 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 - Merscher [P.9615.16]
Series of illustrated trade cards for George W. Miles' millinery establishment at 928 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. One illustration, entitled "The Maiden's Prayer", depicts a woman on her knees with her hands clasped praying in front of a display case containing Miles' hats. Another illustration depicts a couple bowling., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9798.1] printed by E. Ketterlinus & Co., One print [1975.F.617] contains advertising text printed on verso: Geo. W. Miles, importer of millinery goods, No. 928 Chestnut Street, 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 - Miles [1975.F.617 & P.9798.1]
Advertising text printed on verso lists in two columns the various kinds of structures built by the Quaker City Construction Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1905]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quaker [P.2006.20.51]
Illustrated trade cards depicting the American flag., One item [(2)5786.F.190g] contains illegible manuscript note on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Robinson [5786.F.7b & (2)5786.F.190g]
A. Ripka & Bro., the partnership between Adolph and Gustave Ripka, operated from 1525 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia beginning ca. 1886., Subtitles enclosed within decorative borders., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1886]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Ripka [P.2006.20.9]
Illustrated trade card depicting two anthropomorphic frogs smoking Pollywog cigars. One frog wears a bow tie and cap and leans against a large tree trunk and holds his cigar in his right hand. The other frog smiles down at his lit cigar on top of a Pollywogs' box, which rests on a large mushroom cap., Manuscript note on verso partially illegible. Numbered 53., 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 - Pollywogs [1975.F.721]
Illustrated trade card depicting a man wearing a hat labeled "Porter" running with packages of shoes, one in his left hand, the other propped on his right shoulder. The Philadelphia shoe store was owned by R.W. Burns., 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 - Porter's [1975.F.671]
Illustrated business card depicting tiny embossed orange vignettes of an owl, lion, bird and instruments within an oval formed by a single orange line. Rau served as the official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad beginning in 1891 and the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1895. Rau, a professional Philadelphia photographer, began his career as assistant to Philadelphia photographer William Bell; served as the primary photographer of E.L. Wilson's Middle East photographic expedition (1881-1882); and was sole proprietor of a prolific photographic studio that issued lantern slides, stereographs, and photographs between 1887 and 1920. He was also official photographer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, a director of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, a president of the Pennsylvania Photographic Society, and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1910]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rau [P.9548.7]
Illustrated trade card depicting boats and sailing vessels on a rough, choppy sea., Advertising text printed on verso promotes I.E. Walraven's "spring novelties" and "imported goods"., 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 - Walraven [1975.F.1002]
Illustrated trade card for F.H. Watt and R. McQuinn's luggage shop at 437 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustration depicts a 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 - Watt [1975.F.955]
Illustrated trade card depicting a 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 - Webb [P.9802.4]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting sprays of flowers and butterflies., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.997] contains advertising text printed on verso: Wanamaker's ladies' and gents' dining rooms, No. 42 N. 8th Street, No. 823 Market Street, No. 42 S. 2d Street, and Del. Ave. & Spruce St., Philadelphia. George W. Wanamaker, proprietor., One print [1975.F.1007] contains calendar for 1881 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-ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wanamaker's Dining [1975.F.949; 1975.F.969; 1975.F.983; 1975.F.992; 1975.F.997; 1975.F.1007]
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy attired in oversized clothing, including a top hat and coat. He holds a large umbrella in his right hand., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Warburton [1975.F.951]
Illegible manuscript note on recto below street address., 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 - Vance [P.2002.67.8]
Illustrated trade card depicting a winter holiday scene showing a man walking up a snow-covered path to a church. A holly plant with red berries flanks the vignette on the left side., 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 - Veit [P.9706]
Illustrated trade card depicting a case clock., 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 - Votti [P.2006.20.46]
Illustrated trade card depicting an artist with a painting palette showing a well-dressed man his profile portrait., Title from advertising text printed on verso., Advertising text on verso printed by C.A. Dixon, 925 Arch St., For duplicate image, see trade card - Elliott [1975.F.293], 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 - Walker [1975.F.925]
Illustrated trade card depicting the four-story front elevation of 81 Arch Street (i.e., 200 block of Arch Street), the location of Benjamin C. Hornor's varnishing business. Includes a shop window on the ground level flanked by two large doorways and sideboards on the building that read, "varnish" and "Benj. C. Horner"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hornor [(6)1322.F.119a]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds and a butterfly embellished by a geometric border; flowers in baskets; and portraits of women personifying a rose and a daisy by wearing large buds as hats. By the early 1880s, Kennedy Bros. was operated by Jacob and Harry Kennedy., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470] contain logo "J.H." printed on rectos. Most likely printed by Joseph Hoover., One print [1975.F.482] contains advertising text printed on verso: Fall opening, 1880. Kennedy & Bros., No. 1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, announce the opening of their importation of French millinery, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 28th & 29th., Five prints contain advertising text printed on versos: At Kennedy's new store, 1404 Chestnut Street may be found all the latest novelties in Paris millinery. Trimmed bonnets & round hats, feathers, ribbons, plushes, velvets, flowers, etc., etc., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880-1882]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kennedy [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470; 1975.F.472 & 473; 1975.F.482]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting anthropomorphic frogs smoking, playing leapfrog, and wearing a beret and holding a paddle., 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 - Kenney [1975.F.475-477; 1975.F.479]
Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Miss E. Levy tucked into a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford, Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
c1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Levy [1975.F.485]
Series of illustrated trade cards and bookmarks depicting an owl, a rat, and a pelican with a fish in its beak., 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 - Liggins [P.9642.2 & 3]
Illustrated trade card depicting flowers and fruit displayed on a table with an ornate urn and decanter. The seed company originally established in 1784 as David Landreth, was renamed David Landreth & Son in 1860., Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Advertising text printed on verso: The seed growing establishment of D. Landreth & Sons, (now comprising 1574 acres), first founded in 1784, and passing to three generations, has been conducted with the view of producing seeds of the very best and purest quality. We are therefore justified in assuring our customers that the seeds offered by us have no superior in this or any other country. Our stock of garden, field and flower seeds, agricultural implements, horticultural tools, requisites for garden and greenhouse, is very extensive and of first quality. No second quality goods for sale. Prices low. Catalogues free. D. Landreth & Sons, 21 and 23 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
c1878
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Landreth [P.2005.8]
Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, and a steamboat on a body of water., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Keeler [5786.F.176]
