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Title: Engravings by William Humphrys Scrapbook
Description: Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs engraved by Philadelphia and London engraver William Humphrys. Contents include postage stamp proofs, book and periodical illustrations, tile pages, portrait prints, advertisements, and cut outs of banknote and certificate vignettes. Majority of graphics depict allegorical imagery or illustrations of genre, religious, sentimental, and literary scenes, some from the plays of Shakespeare. Illustrations include scenes of courtship; female friendship; children with animals; a ghoulish-looking woman with a torch; a European man smoking a hookah; Jesus Christ; Adam & Eve; and imagery from Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen", John Milton's "Palemon's Story," and John Gay's "Thursday: or The Spell." Allegorical works depict the figures of Columbia, Minerva, Mercury, Neptune, Bounty, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Hope, and Apollo, as well as scenes with the American eagle; caducei for the "Liverpool Apothecaries Company"; citizens fighting a fire; cherubs charting a globe; Native Americans; a family; sailing ships; and symbols of farming, trade, and industry. Vignettes also show a portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pocahontas saving John Smith; and a female warrior slaying a man of royalty captioned "Sic Semper Tyranus."

Title: Conrad Busche, manufacturer & dealer in plain and fancy confectionery, wholesale and retail, 1230 Columbia Ave., Phila
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card displaying the title, surrounded by a garland of flowers. Includes a seated cherub figure in the lower right corner and a bust statue in the lower left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Busche [P.9802.6]

Title: [J.W. LeMaistre trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds; flowers; putti carrying a pine tree or Christmas tree; children holding up a large sign for J.W. LeMaistre; a lady attired in Renaissance or Medieval clothing; a woman standing on a tree branch over a body of water releasing fish she caught in her lace shawl; General Ulysses S. Grant smoking while standing on a globe labeled "United"; and children symbolizing various countries by wearing traditional clothing and carrying the countries' flags, including England, Italy, and Spain., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and lithographers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), McCalla & Staveley (Philadelphia) and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting products imported and sold by J.W. LeMaistre, including embroideries, laces, curtains, handkerchiefs, collars, cushions, silk ties and bows, and bibs sold at his 46-48 North Eighth Street establishment 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 - LeMaistre [1975.F.492; 1975.F.498; 1975.F.501; 1975.F.508-512; 1975.F.514; P.9811.1 & 2; P.9838]

Title: He loves me a little Novelty beauty & fashion. Maison Demorest. Agencies everywhere. Reliable patterns in sizes illustrated & described
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a winged cherub attired in a sheer robe standing on the leaves of a rose branch pulling the petals off of a flower. Madame Demorest's emporium moved to 17 East Fourteenth Street in New York in 1874., Advertising text printed on verso in ornate text: Centennial award over all cometitors. Maison de patrons, haute nouveaute, Paris & New York. Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and New York styles. Mme. Demorest's cosmopolitan emporium of fashions representative pattern establishment of Europe & America. Maisons dans les principales villes d'Europe et d'Amérique. [Address illegible] Paris, 11 Bouverie St., London (wholesale depot), 17 East 14th St., 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 - Demorest [1975.F.578]

Title: [Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]

Title: Heintzelman's Pharmacy, N.W. cor. Ridge Ave. & Master St., Philadelphia
Description: Letterhead containing a vignette of the Philadelphia pharmacist's trademark. Trademark depicts a cherub atop a mortar and pestle. A snake is entwined around his arm and he wears a sash reading "Heintzelman's Pharmacy." Figure framed by an archway of a fence on which vinery climbs around the edges., Completed in manuscript in German on March 15, 1894 to [illegible] from Heintzelman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Letterheads & Stationery (A-M) - H [P.2011.46.451]

Title: Wm. Menke & Bro. Dress trimmings. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub wearing only a sash kneeling under a large folded paper structure., Advertising text printed on verso: Wm. Menke & Bro., wholesale and retail dealers in ladies' dress trimmings, Berlin zephyrs, embroideries, laces, French corsets, full line of gloves, etc. No. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Fringes, buttons, &c., made to order. Largest assortment in the city., 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 - Menke [1975.F.625]

Title: Stuart Robson and Wm. H. Crane
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the heads of actors Stuart Robinson and William Henry Crane on the bodies of winged cherubs resting on their elbows, imitating the famous duo from Raphael's Sistine Madonna (1513-1514). Robinson and Crane formed a comedy partnership that lasted twelve years, from 1877 to 1889., 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 - Robson [1975.F.739]

Title: Ripka & Co. artists' and wax flower materials, ebony and velvet frames, 146 S. Eighth St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three birds surrounding a cherub sitting in the grass and playing a pan flute. Ripka & Co. was operated by John C. Ripka., 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 - Ripka [1975.F.735]

Title: [Wanamaker & Brown trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting head portraits of men, women, and putti with bows and arrows flanking scrolls inscribed with titles and advertising text. Other imagery includes birds, butterflies, flowers and a four horse chariot. John Wanamaker and his brother-in-law Nathan Brown opened their clothing and dry goods store, Oak Hall, at Sixth and Market Streets in 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.942, 964 & 965] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos. One print [1975.F.948] provides historical information about Roman chariot races, which Wanamaker & Brown used as a symbol of their business. The other [1975.F.995] promotes mens' and boys' clothing and gentlemen's, youths' and boys' furnishing goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Wanamaker & Brown [1975.F.942; 1975.F.948; 1975.F.964 & 965; 1975.F.995]

Title: [John Wanamaker & Co., 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John Wanamaker & Co.'s 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street store in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict the eastern and western hemispheres of the world; sheep standing in the snow; striped socks; butterflies; an anthropomorphic owl attired in a plaid coat and top hat standing in the curve of the moon observing the townscape below; a boy and a girl standing on a path below a tree in which a large birds sits; Philadelphia's City Hall; a boy riding on a sled through the snow pulled by two turkeys; a bird on a tree branch; a hearth with a kettle over a fire; rabbits and a grasshopper; an owl and birds; a well-dressed boy reading a sign on a stone all for boys' clothing at John Wanamaker & Co.'s store; putti seated in a bird's nest and playing with a Dutch clog in a pond; Japanese men assembling a paper lantern; an owl flying above two Japanese men huddled on the ground; cricket players; a large ship at sea framed by a large horseshoe; Japanese men running and falling from their sled in the snow; an angry merchant holding a $20.00 I.O.U. from a man attired in a new suit smoking a cigarette; men sitting on the field of a shooting range; and children playing with wood blocks and spelling "Wanamaker". Includes a metamorphic trade card, which when open shows an advertising board for John Wanamaker & Co. propped in a man's crooked teeth in his wide open mouth and when closed, shows the man with his eyes open and mouth closed. In 1869, Wanamaker established John Wanamaker & Co. on the 800 block of Chestnut Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.940 & 1006] copyrighted 1881 by E.O. Goodman., Two prints [1975.F.963 & 966] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Two prints [1975.F.990, 991, 1000] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., One print [1975.F.993] copyrighted 1879 by G.H. Kendall, engraver, 285 Broadway, New York., Printers and engravers include Hiram P. Arms, Jr. (Philadelphia), Rogers & Florance (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and G.H. Kendall (New York)., Four prints [1975.F.958, 979 & 980, 993] contain advertising text printed on versos promoting John Wanamaker & Co.'s quality clothing and low prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1878-ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - John Wanamaker & Co. [1975.F.906; 1975.F.916 & 917; 1975.F.924; 1975.F.926; 1975.F.940 & 941; 1975.F.946; 1975.F.957 & 958; 1975.F.962 & 963; 1975.F.966; 1975.F.977; 1975.F.979 & 980; 1975.F.987 & 988; 1975.F.990 & 991; 1975.F.993; 1975.F.1000; 1975.F.1006; 1975.F.1009; P.9651.24; P.9728.16; P.9745]

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: Chr. Jud, fancy cake bakery, ice cream saloon and confectionery, 238 S. Eleventh, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Chr. Jud surrounded and embellished by flowering vines and cherubs., Manuscipt note on verso: M.H. Smith, 863 11th St., 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 - Jud [1975.F.456]

Title: [Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]

Title: [A.C. Yates & Co. clothing trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for A.C. Yates & Co. clothing store, which began operations on the ground floor of the Public Ledger Building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia in 1876. Illustrations depict a bust portrait of William Penn and Penn's treaty with the Indians to commemorate the Penn Bicentennial (1682-1882); children walking in the snow and carrying sprigs of holly; a boy sitting on a bare tree limb under a smiling moon serenading cats from sheet music labeled "Au Clair de la lune"; couples on the beach painting, reading by moonlight, and embracing behind the privacy of a large umbrella; swans swimming with flower garlands in their beaks; a traveling hunting party, including two men mounted on horses with a large group of hounds; three bystanders watching a man paint a large sign for A.C. Yates & Co. onto a brick wall; birds; sprays of flowers; two women and a man ice skating together; children blowing bubbles; children tumbling to the ground after hoisting one another to grab canisters from the top of a pantry; putti holding grotesque masks; and a view of Fairmount Park from Belmont, showing well-dressed couples sitting and walking in the park, a horse-drawn carriage and a man riding horseback on a dirt path in the foreground, and bridges spanning the Schuylkill River in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Hatch Lith. Co. (New York); Chas. Shields' Sons (New York); and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eighteen prints contain advertising text printed on versos., Two prints contains calendars for 1881 printed on versos., One print [P.9057.52] contains a manuscript note on verso: A.N. Fisher, card with which she read the three volumes of "The Dutch Republic" winter of '77 & '78. The ending of the books were nicer than the rest. Suge? of Leipsig--very good--& you couldn't help being interested in persons, places & performaces. Wm. of Orange's nearly only despicable characteristic was having spies and thru them interrupted [?]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876-ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Yates [1975.F.679; 1975.F.907; 1975.F.1013 & 1014; 1975.F.1016; 1975.F.1018-1032; P.8666.3i-3l; P.8666.3p; P.8666.3z; P.9057.52; P.9642.7; P.9802.12]

Title: Wm. Idler, 109 South Eleventh Street, watchmaker & jeweler, over 20 years experience in repairing fine watches Fans, jet, shell combs, and every description of jewelry and fancy articles a specialty
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting business cards for William Idler's watch making and jewelry business surrounded by flowers and cherub figures., 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 - Idler [1975.F.457-460; 1975.F.463 & 464]

Title: [Wm. T. Hopkins trade card]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub holding a rifle with a helmet propped on the barrel., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the sale of Wm. T. Hopkins' hoop skirts, bustles, and corsets from his 133 North Eighth Street establishment 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 - Hopkins [P.9685.1]

Title: [Wm. F. Simes & Son trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. F. Simes & Son, proprietors of the "little gem corn & bunion remedy", at 1102 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a couple embracing and reeling in a large fish; a woman and three anthropomorphic owls reading and standing on a thin tree branch; a girl reeling in a fish twice the size of her own body; a man with a large, bulbous nose standing next to a stork on a beach, looking toward the ocean where a male fairy flies to retrieve a hat floating in the water; a Native American female cherub kneeling before a small Greek statuette; a male cherub playing a banjo and synchronizing the movements of a tiny ballerina doll to the music with a string attached his leg; a male cherub picking flowers and observing a dragonfly; and a male suitor standing next to the bench where his female companion is seated., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.858] copyrighted 1882 by [illegible?], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Simes [1975.F.755-759; 1975.F.789; 1975.F.815; 1975.F.858]

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: Thomas Patton, steam dyeing & scouring. Principal office, No. 1622 Pine Street. Works: 510 S. Thirteenth Street. Offices: 1704 Fairmount Ave., 4012 Market Street, 1622 Pine Street No connection with any similar establishment
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait of a woman framed by roses, putti, a snow-covered tree, and a framed portrait of a girl., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Patton [1975.F.720]

Title: [S. Shoneman trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Samuel Shoneman's "button house" and ladies' trimmings store at 101 South Eleventh Street, later 1018 Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers; flowers in a vase; children carrying a potted flowering plant; a girl picking and smelling flowers; putti; a boy straddling a music stand containing sheet music and playing the violin or fiddle; a male figure attired in a hat and ruffled collar standing near a scythe and hourglass holding a hoop through which a frog leaps; and a view showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods are sat upon and displayed by the English delegation. Also shows residences standing in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting various styles of buttons sold by Shoneman's "button house", along with various ladies trimmings, jewelry and fancy goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880-1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shoneman [1975.F.691; 1975.F.698; 1975.F.798; 1975.F.850; 1975.F.852; 1975.F.862 & 863; P.9728.10]

Title: [Rosenbaum & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Rosenbaum & Co.'s fancy goods store (previously Fleischner & Co., also known as "Fleischner's old stand") at 208 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Filigree and silhouette figures of boys, girls, and cherubs form borders around the titles. Also includes a holiday greeting card with an illustration of two women bundled in winter clothing walking and holding hands., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.740] lists products offered by Rosenbaum & Co. printed on verso in two columns., 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 - Rosenbaum [1975.F.730-734; 1975.F.736 & 1975.F.740]

Title: Shafer's pure fruit syrups
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a male cherub's head and wing framed by torn paper and cracks after poking his head through., Advertising text printed on verso includes testimonials, prices of Shafer's pure fruit syrups, and lists available flavors., 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 - Shafer [1975.F.793]

Title: Gerney & Algeier, seedsmen & florists, 69 Chestnut St., Philadelphia Seeds, plants, bulbous roots; fruits, shade & ornamental trees
Description: Trade card containing an ornate border designed with anaglyptography and comprised of scrolls, filigree, cherubic figures, birds, and ribbons surrounding the text. John Gerney was listed in city directories at 69 Chestnut Street in 1857., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., M.H. Traubel & Co. operated from 1853 to circa 1857.
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.144o]

Title: Annual mask ball of the Liedertafel at the National Guards Hall, February the 13th 1865
Description: Ticket for the male musical ensemble performance society, probably in Philadelphia. Contains a whimsical border surrounding the text. Border includes cherubs holding sheet music, a harlequin, an impish figure, a harp, lion's head, and filigree. Also contains flourishes around the text., P.9349.145a printed with violet ink., P.9349.147b printed with black ink., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also proof of image [P.9349.150r].
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.145a&147b]

Title: Baltz, Stitz, & Co. Importers & dealers in brandies, wines, gins &c. Bourbon & rye whiskies. No. 333 North 37th St. Philadelphia Fred. Baltz. John Stiltz. Andrew Bold
Description: Trade card containing corner vignettes representing the wine and liquor trade. Vignettes depict clusters of casks and wine bottles and a cherubic figure seated on a cask and a shepherd-like figure., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.149d&154p]

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: [Darlington, Runk & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children, cats, cherubs, and ornately attired couples. Also shows a Japanese woman dressed in traditional garb playing a shamisen; a man painting on canvas as his female companion watches; three women shooting with bows and arrows at a heart-shaped target; two women reading a letter as a male admirer watches unnoticed; and men and women gathered around a drinking fountain., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.284] printed by J.H. Bufford's Sons, Boston and six prints signed J. Bognard, Paris., One print [1975.F.279] contains advertising text printed on verso: Darlington, Runk & Co., importers and retailers of silks, dress-goods, mourning-goods, hosiery, gloves, india shawls, laces &c. Nos. 1126 and 1128 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Ten prints contains image titles, including "Dos a dos," "Fi dono!" "La gourmandisi," "La cholere," "La paresse," "Brouillés," "La rencontre," "Pardonne-moi," "L'orgueil," and "La promenade"., 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 - Darlington [1975.F.146; 1975.F.225-227; 1975.F.240; 1975.F.245-246; 1975.F.248-249; 1975.F.251; 1975.F.254-255; 1975.F.258-259; 1975.F.261-262; 1975.F.265-266; 1975.F.268-269; 1975.F.277; 1975.F.279; 1975.F.284]

Title: [Armand Dalsemer trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Armand Dalsemer's "fine shoes" and "common sense shoes" at 136 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a grinning African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, standing in an open window holding a newspaper labeled "The American Citizen"; a cherub sitting on a lily pad in a lily pond; and a portrait of a little girl wearing a bonnet., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia) and Leon Meyers, 29 S. Liberty St., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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 - Dalsemer [1975.F.15; 1975.F.19; 1975.F.286]

Title: [I.S. Custer, Son & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for the millinery and fancy goods business of I.S. Custer, Son & Co. at 39, 41, & 43 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a boy hanging from a tree branch by his shirt after attempting to steal apples from a fenced-in yard with a sign reading "Keep off". A boy with a basket full of apples stands below him and watches from the ground. Also shows a girl wearing a bonnet with a red, white and blue ribbon and resting her head on her hands in a field with flowers and a butterfly. Includes two cherub-like figures, one representing "Septembre" running from a rabbit with his rifle and hunting bag, and the other, "Octobre," wearing a robe and a laurel wreath on his head and spilling wine from a goblet., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.207] die cut and shaped in an art or painting palette with advertising text for goods available within Departments A through H 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 - Custer [1975.F.149; 1975.F.199-200; 1975.F.207]

Title: [E. Burthey trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Etienne Burthey's Philadelphia confectionery at 324 South Third Street. Eight prints illustrate the French folksong, "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre". Views show the Duke of Marlborough leaving for war; Marlborough with another man carrying his sabre; Marlborough's wife looking through a telescope from a stone tower; two men with the deceased Marlborough's helmet; his wife's worried page carrying a letter; and his wife seated, with the page crying into a handkerchief nearby, after receiving news of Marlborough's death; and two men carrying his coffin. Additional illustrations depict men and women playing lawn tennis and archery; a group of children performing a variety of activities, including playing with a train, performing magic tricks, and training a dog; naked cherubs in the snow and on a swing; flowers; birds; bees; and butterflies. Burthey's confectionery business occupied 324 South Third Street from 1877 to 1881., Printers and engravers include A. Ponsot (Paris, France), Stafford (Frankford, Pa.), and Thomas S. Dando & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.), Includes series of five prints by Thomas S. Dando & Co. with advertising text printed on versos: F. Burthey, manufacturer of all sorts of chocolates, bonbons, Parisian style, 324 South Third St., Philadelphia. Prints also contain titles on rectos, including "Royal lawn tennis," "Le petit mencanicien," "Le petit magicien," "Le chien d'education," and "Tir a l'arc.", Includes series of eight prints printed by Ponsot, Paris with imprint, "E. Burthey, maison Francaise de chocolat et confiserie, 324 South Third St., Philadelphia" and various titles in French on rectos including, "Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre," "L'un portrait son grand sabre," "Madame monte à sa tour," "L'autre portrait son casque," "Elle voit venir son page," "Monsieur Marlborough est mort," "Chacun s'en fut chez soi," and "J' l'ai vu porter en terre.", 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 - Burthey [1975.F.37; 1975.F.39; 1975.F.41-44; 1975.F.46; 1975.F.48; 1975.F.64-65; 1975.F.70; 1975.F.74; 1975.F.77; 1975.F.84; 1975.F.96; 1975.F.98-99; 1975.F.101-104; 1975.F.108; 1975.F.115]

Title: Thos. Brown, practical sanitary plumber, No. 221 S. 16th Street, Philad'a
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the name of the plumbing business superimposed on an ornate mirror surmounted by a bust figure and a cherub holding a tassel and a laurel wreath., Advertising text printed on verso: Plumbing in all its branches. Special and personal attention is given to modernizing defective plumbing and drainage in city and country residences. Orders by mail will be promptly attended to. The best of references will be furnished if required., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Thomas Brown operated his plumbing business from 221 South Sixteenth Street in 1885.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brown [1975.F.94]

Title: American Machine Co. manufacturers of hardware specialties, N.E. cor. Lehigh Ave. amd American St., Philadelphia Specialties: American ice cream freezer, gem ice cream freezer, star ice cream freezer, crown ice cream freezer, crown ice chipper, American, crown, knox and eagle, fluting machines, crown hand fluter, perfection counter scales [with automatic action.], automatic potato scales, Mrs. Potts' cold handle sad irons, A.M. Co's clothes wringer, American cake mixer, American tobacco cutter, American tobacco shave, etc
Description: Trade card illustrated by six blonde putti frolicking outdoors around an "American Freezer" in a barrel labeled "American Machine Co." Includes four winged angels that play with arrows and a shield., Advertising text and "specialties" list printed on verso for the American Machine Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Machine [P.9994]

Title: [Bailey, Banks & Biddle trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for jewellers and silversmiths Bailey, Banks & Biddle. Illustrations depict cherubs playing with a flower garland; three fish and a seashell pattern on an ornate, gilt-stamped card; a ship at sea visible through a keyhole arch; and a man studying ancient pottery and porcelain. The partnership of Bailey, Banks & Biddle was formed in 1878 and operated from Twelfth and Chestnut Streets until 1953. Its assets were sold to the Zale Jewelry Company in 1961., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.50, 1975.F.52, 1975.F.162] contain advertising text on rectos or versos for the Stationery Department of Bailey, Banks & Biddle. Stationery items "made expressly to order by Messrs. Goodall & Son, London". Two prints [1975.F.50; 1975.F.31] contain calendars on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880-1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bailey, Banks & Biddle [1975.F.31; 1975.F.32; 1975.F.50; 1975.F.52;1975.F.162]

Title: Hall's vegetable Sicilian hair renewer. Prevents gray hairs and baldness
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting seven cherubs fixing the long hair of a woman who is seated outside in the grass. The cherubs carry and hold bottles, fans, and a mirror. Includes doves pulling a wagon full of hair renewer through the air and rabbits in the grass., Advertising text promoting Hall's vegetable Sicilian hair remover and Buckingham's dye for the whiskers 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 - Hall [1975.F.443]

Title: Compliments of R.C. Geddes, rubber goods, 316 Market St. & 716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Over
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub riding on the back of a tortoise with a whip in mid-air on a flower-lined path., Advertising text printed on verso: Robert C. Geddes, wholesale & retail dealer in rubber goods & supplies. Wholesale agent for Gossamer Rubber Clothing Company, 316 Market Street & 716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. We call especial attention of those wanting a good article of garden, lawn & hot-house hose, to our 3/4 3 ply red hose and white hose, which has no superior in the market--also to our patent triple steam, branch and fountain pipe, hose carriages, lawn sprinklers, etc. Globe lawn sprinklers, $1.25., 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 - Geddes [5786.F.354]

Title: [M.A. Fritsche trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children and their pets, including dogs, chicks, birds, a goat, and a rabbit; a man and woman in Renaissance-era clothing; and women, cherubs, flowers, and fruit framing business cards and scrolls for M.A. Fritsche's jewelery business at 1320 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia., Six prints [1975.F.298-300 & 1975.F.315] copyrighted 1879 by Bufford, Boston., 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 - Fritsche [1975.F.298-300; 1975.F.313-315; 1975.F.317 & 318; 1975.F.325; 1975.F.334; 1975.F.337 & 338; 1975.F.340; 1975.F.344]

Title: Marriage certificate. This certifies that [blank] of [blank] and [blank] of [blank] united in holy matrimony according to the ordinance of God and the laws of [blank] at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. [blank]. Witnesses [blank] [blank]
Description: Marriage certificate containing a scene with an African American bride, groom, and reverend, pictorial details, and an ornamented border. Scene depicts the bride, in the left, in right profile, standing, and attired in a long-sleeved white wedding dress and bridal cap with floor length veil draped down her back. She holds a large bouquet from which ribbons stream and she bows her head slightly forward. In the right, the groom, in left profile, stands, attired in a dark suit with morning jacket and a boutonniere adorning the lapel. His head is slightly bowed. Between them, facing the viewer, stands an older reverend, attired in a clerical waistcoat and pants. He is balding with tufts of grey hair by his ears. He holds a Bible at his midriff. Ferns adorn the background. Pictorial details, surround the scene and text of the certificate, and include two Black putti; a vignette depicting the clasped hands of a Black bride and groom; and tropical greenery. The ornamented border is composed of ribbons and a chain link., Title from item., Name of publisher inferred and date from copyright statement: copyrighted 1910 P.P. and F. Co. Chi., Description of print (No. 1900) included in 1911 trade catalog for the Consolidated Portrait and Frame Co., p. 135a. Description reads: Good Luck Marriage Certificate. This certificate was printed and designed especially for the negro race. There is no other certificate so far as we know, exclusively for them., RVCDC, Purchased with partial funds from the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Women's History Fund.
Date: 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates - Marriage [P.2023.7]

Title: Certificate of marriage
Description: Marriage certificate illustrated with vignettes within an ornamental border. Depicts vignettes representing peace and love including doves near an altar with an eternal flame, and cherubs floating on clouds, reaping grain, and rowing a gondola., Issued to John A. Jones and Mary Anne Dickerson. Signed by Rev. William Douglass, officiant, and by Samuel Van Brackle and George W. Hopewell, witnesses., Copyright secured., Title from item., Date based on date of the event represented., Purchase 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Croome, Meignelle & Co. was a Philadelphia engraving firm operated by engraver, William Croome, and banknote engraver, James Meignelle in the 1840s.
Creator: Croome, Meignelle & Co., engraver
Date: [ca. 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous

Title: A. Fiot publisher of music, importer of musical merchandize [sic]. Wholesale & retail, No. 196 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Piano, harps, guitars, violins, flutes, brass instruments, Italian strings. &c. &c
Description: Advertisement containing a whimsical view surrounded by an ornamental border to promote the music store of Augustus Fiot. View shows cherubs playing and surrounded by instruments, including a cello, harp, trumpet, flute, guitar, and organ. Scene also includes sheet music resting on the floor and propped on a stand. The ornamental border includes a vignette, cherubs playing instruments (harp, cymbals, trumpet, flute), vinery, and floral details. Vignette shows a woman at a piano and a boy playing the flute at a recital in front of a small audience. Fiot began to publish music in 1835 with partner Leopold Meignan. The partnership operated until 1839. Fiot continued to operate a music store until 1855., Title from item., Date inferred from the content., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 1, Copy printed in red ink at Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 60, Digital image of Free Library of Philadelphia copy included in Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog.
Creator: Dacre, Henry, approximately 1820-
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.23]

Title: Engravings by William Humphrys
Description: Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs engraved by Philadelphia and London engraver William Humphrys. Contents include postage stamp proofs, book and periodical illustrations, tile pages, portrait prints, advertisements, and cut outs of banknote and certificate vignettes. Majority of graphics depict allegorical imagery or illustrations of genre, religious, sentimental, and literary scenes, some from the plays of Shakespeare. Illustrations include scenes of courtship; female friendship; children with animals; a ghoulish-looking woman with a torch; a European man smoking a hookah; Jesus Christ; Adam & Eve; and imagery from Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen", John Milton's "Palemon's Story," and John Gay's "Thursday: or The Spell." Allegorical works depict the figures of Columbia, Minerva, Mercury, Neptune, Bounty, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Hope, and Apollo, as well as scenes with the American eagle; caducei for the "Liverpool Apothecaries Company"; citizens fighting a fire; cherubs charting a globe; Native Americans; a family; sailing ships; and symbols of farming, trade, and industry. Vignettes also show a portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pocahontas saving John Smith; and a female warrior slaying a man of royalty captioned "Sic Semper Tyranus.", Portrait prints, some probably from the British periodical "Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country," depict Israel Putnam; George Washington; Gustavus Adolphus; Mrs. Sloman, of Covent Garden Theatre in the Character of Baltimore; Thomas Carlyle; William Dunlop; Letitia Elizabeth Landon; D. M. Moir; and Henry Purcell. Scrapbook also contains an 1844 banknote specimen of "La Provincia de Buenos Aires" illustrated with vignettes of ostriches; ca. 1845 postage stamp proof depicting Queen Victoria after the Chalon portrait; a full-length portait of an unidentified man, possibly Humphrys; and an advertisement for the Philadelphia artist Joshua Shaw showing a man leading his horse down a bucolic path, as well as engravings after his work of a landscape and an advertisement for Cohen's Lottery Exchange Office, Baltimore., Title from stamp on spine., Morocco binding., Various American and British artists, including W. Chatfield, John Opie, Joshua Shaw, Robert Smirke, C. R. Leslie, Charles L. Eastlake, W. E. West, George Smithard, Carlo Dola, A.E. Chalon, J. Wood, J. Stephanoff, Pastorini, Alfred Croquis (i.e., Daniel Maclise), A. F. Tireggi, John James Barralet, J. Banks, J. M. Wright, Thomas Stothard, P. Williams, Camille Roqueplan, and R. Westall., Various American and British printers and publishers, including H. S. Singleton, J. P. Davis, and James Fraser., Manuscript letter by Humphry completed January 10, 1865 to Anna Holloway pasted on opening page to scrapbook. Letter details his ill health, which in spite of, he still appreciates "the brightness of the sun, the greeness of the earth, and the beauty of extreme nature.", Some scrapbook pages contain manuscript notes identifying the genre of the specimen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1967, p. 55., William Humphrys (1795-1865), born in Dublin, immigrated to the United States early in his life and studied engraving under George Murray in Philadelphia. He worked as an engraver in the city circa 1815-1823 producing book illustrations, advertisements, and banknote and certificate vignettes. He also served as secretary for the Association of American Artists. Relocating to England, he produced similar work before returning to the United States in 1843. In 1845, he moved to Dublin to engrave "The Reading Magdalene" for the Royal Irish Art Union before returning to England where he worked as an engraver for the firm Perkin, Bacon, and Co. During this employ, he was noted for his re-engraving of the head of Queen Victoria for the 1 d postage stamp. Humphrys retired from engraving in his later years and worked as an accountant for the printing firm Novello & Co. He died at the Novellos' Genoa villa on January 21, 1865.
Creator: Humphrys, William, 1795-1865
Date: [ca. 1817-ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Humphrys [7607.F]

Title: H.M.S. Pinafore, for the benefit of the Penna. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Friday afternoon, April 25, 1879
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting three putti standing and sitting near potted plants, flowers, and vines. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was organized in November 1876 and chartered in January 1877., Advertising text on verso printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the benefit performance of Sullivan & Gilbert's comic opera "Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore" and includes a list of characters and actors., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: L. Prang & Co.
Date: c1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [1975.F.349]

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