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Title: E.H. Parry, fashionable hatter, S.E. cor. 10th & Market Sts. Phila
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses., Advertising text printed on verso promotes gentlemen's and youths' hats and a comprehensive line of straw hats for sale at E.H. Parry's 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 - Parry [1975.F.667]

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: [Louis J. Selliez trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated stock trade cards for Louis J. Selliez's hat store, formerly William Hopson's store, at the northwest corner of Eleventh and South Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses. Also shows two performers, one lying on the ground and balancing a ball on his feet and the other demonstrating his strength by lifting weights., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertisement on verso of one print [1975.F.832] printed by John H. Johnson., Advertising text printed on versos promotes fall and winter styles of hats for 1879 and spring styles for 1880., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Date: 1879-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Selliez [1975.F.831 & 832]

Title: [Sooy's trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting sprays of flowers; a man smelling flowers while his female companion lies on her stomach in the grass nearby; a hunting scene labeled "Autumn" showing a dog and two boys walking, one of them with a rifle slung carelessly over his shoulder, which has just discharged and knocked the hat off of the boy behind him; and Santa Claus approaching a chimney with a sack of toys on his back. His reindeers and sleigh wait for him on the rooftops overlooking the skyline of the city., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.827] contains trimmed "List of Streets of Philadelphia, North and South of Market St." 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 - Sooy [1975.F.761; 1975.F.776 & 777; 1975.F.785; 1975.F.811; 1975.F.827-829]

Title: [J.E. Caldwell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for the Philadelphia jewelry firm J.E. Caldwell & Co. Illustrations depict scantily-clad boys standing on the heads of various animals, including an alligator, a donkey, and a camel. The boys wear or carry native items or clothing from various parts of the world, including a dark-skinned boy wearing large hoops in his hears, a gold anklet, and shield-like object on his back; a boy wearing a bandana around his head with a two-tined pitchfork over his shoulder; and a boy wearing a long kaffiyeh with a rifle strapped to his back. Another illustration depicts man seated at a table etching designs into a an urn or vase., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include the Engraving Department of Caldwell & Co. and J.B. Lippincott & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1870-1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Caldwell [1975.F.127; 1975.F.130; 1975.F.132; 1975.F.222]

Title: "Creme" oat meal toilet soap
Description: Trade card promoting soap manufacturer J.D. Larkin & Co. and depicting a racist caricature of an anthropomorphized chimpanzee as a man hunter. He stands in front of a section of tall grass and holds a clutch of birds in his left hand and a rifle under his right arm. He is attired in a hunting cap, red jacket, tan pants, and black high boots. Leather straps are criss-crossed over his chest. J.D. Larkin & Co. was founded in 1875. By 1881 the soap company included over 100 factory workers and sustained specialized departments for advertising and shipping, as well as solicited to door-to-door private residences in addition to shopkeepers. Trade cards with the company logo were included with each box of soap. By 1885 the firm only directly sold their products to residential customers and was known for their premiums. The company was sold in 1941 and continued as a mail-order business until 1962., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, Clay & Richmond, Buffalo, N.Y., 1881., Printed in upper right corner on recto: J, D, L, & C. monogram (ie. J.D. Larkin & Co.) surmounting "Buffalo, N.Y.", Series no. printed on recto: II., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Creme" toilet soap sold by A.E. Snow, dealer in drugs, medicines, etc. in Plainfield, Vt. Also promotes "six different designs" of cards by the People's Mfg. Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog 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: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - S [P.9828.6852]

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: He dreamt dat from away off thar de angels sent him news. He 'woke and found it was Dunbarr dat sent dem bully shoes; 60 N. Fourth St. Philadelphia
Description: Racist, satiric trade card depicting an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a straw hat, a white collared shirt, pants with patches at the knee, and old shoes, sleeping with his back resting against a haystack in a field. A rifle is propped on the haystack beside him. An African American angel with wings flies toward the sleeping man with a pair of boots in his outstretched right hand. In the background is a scarecrow. Text printed on the recto describing the scene is written in the vernacular. Burns & Zeigler succeeded the firm of Geo. S. Clogg & Son in 1875., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of business., Contains advertising text printed on verso: E. L. Burns. F. T. Zeigler. Burns & Zeigler, dealers in fashionable boots and shoes, No. 1109 Pennsylvania Avenue, betw. Eleventh and Twelfth Sts., Washington, D.C. F. Lisiewski & Co., prs., 639 Arch 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.
Creator: Donaldson Brothers (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Burns & Zeigler [1975.F.33]

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