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 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]
Illustrated trade card depicting a boy or a girl riding on the back of a rabbit and holding up a sign reading "Lead, but never follow"., 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 - Kirchhoff [P.9836]
Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an eye depicts a traveling R. Newell & Son horse-drawn photographic wagon. The scene is bordered by a sun, filigree, and a camera on a tripod. R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell., 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 - Newell [P.9803.1]
Illustrated trade card and envelope depicting filigree surrounding the advertisement for W. & F. Langenheim. In 1849 the Langenheim brothers purchased the American patent rights to the talbotype and in the autumn of 1850 moved their studio to a more centrally located block of Chestnut Street., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Langenheim [P.8468.23]
Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait painting displayed on an easel of a child seated and posed with a pen and a piece of paper. A large painting palette with paint brushes running through the finger hole rests in front of the painting in the lower right corner., 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 - Chillman [P.9821]
Illustrated trade card depicting the name of the business printed on a card inset into pink roses. Consterdine won a bronze medal from the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society for his ivorytype photographs in 1881., 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 - Consterdine [P.9728.5]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting couples, including one on their wedding day and another under an umbrella in the rain., 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 - De Morat [P.9753.1-4]
Illustrated trade card and holiday card depicting a woman attired in a red shawl and green dress holding a tray with a roasted turkey outside near a shop window labeled "baker". Includes a small bird standing at her feet and a vignette of mistletoe adjacent to the title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Broadbent & Phillips, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent and Henry C. Phillips, operated from 1206 Chestnut Street beginning in 1869.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Broadbent & Phillips [P.9651.1]
Illustrated trade cards depicting business cards tucked into flowers., Notice printed on versos: Concentration, the interests of Mr. Phillips, in the late firm of Broadbent & Phillips, having been purchased by the Messrs. Broadbent, they have removed the entire effects, negatives and books, to 914 Chestnut Street, where it is now combined with the old firm of Broadbent & Taylor, under the firm name of Broadbent & Taylor, 914 Chestnut Street. A lower schedule of prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Broadbent & Taylor, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent and William Curtis Taylor, was active at 914 Chestnut Street from 1877-1884. Broadbent died in 1880, leaving his interest in the business to his two sons, who bought out Taylor in 1884.
Date
[ca. 1877]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Broadbent & Taylor [P.9646.1-3]
