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Title: Familton & Chemin, fancy job printers, 337 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a crew of men working to navigate a sailboat in a body of water. Familton & Chemin, the partnership between John B. Familton and Lewis F. Familton, operated their book, card and job printing establishment from 337 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia in 1861. Familton & Rogers succeeded Familton & Chemin in 1862., 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 - Familton [5786.F.9a]

Title: [David Heston, Frankford, Philad'a]
Description: Illustrated sample trade card depicting a sailboat and its passengers in the foreground and large rock formations and palm trees on the beach in the background., Title from imprint printed on verso., Price list for printer David Heston's illustrated cards printed on verso., 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 - Heston [P.9651.10]

Title: [American Sunday-School Union trade card]
Description: Illustrated trade card for the American Sunday-School Union depicting a vignette of a chapel in the woods superimposed over a sailing vessel at sea. Both scenes enclosed within a decorative border. Non-denominational organization established in 1817 as the Sunday and Adult School Union to promote the formation of Sunday Schools. Renamed the American Sunday School Union in 1824., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes books, engravings, and bindings for sale at the American Sunday-School Union., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - American Sunday [1975.F.13]

Title: A. Singer, gent's, ladies', misses' and childrens, fine shoes, 104 N. Second St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three children playing with a model sailboat in shallow water., 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 - Singer [P.9651.21]

Title: Continental Clothing Company, 1618 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two sailboats on a body of water in the foreground and the cityscape of a city, most likely Venice, in the background., Price list printed on verso., 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 - Continental [1975.F.205]

Title: Bush & Co.'s borax soap company, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy sitting on a rock near a body of water playing with a model sailboat. Bush & Co. was operated by John V. and Van Camp Bush., Manuscript note on verso: Chester., Contains advertising text printed on verso: Always buy Bush & Co's improved borax soap, because it is made of the purest and best materials. It is the best laundry soap--making your clothes clean and sweet, with very little labor. It works equally well in hard or soft, or in salt water. It is a splendid luxury for the toilet or bath; wonderful in its beneficial action on the skin, equaling the imported castile soap. It is remarkably good for washing the head, cleansing the scalp and rendering the hair soft and glossy. It is the most economical, being sold at a reasonable price, and one cake will do as much work as two cakes of the ordinary, so-called cheap soaps. Ask your grocer for Bush & Co.'s borax soap and take no other., 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 - Bush [P.9651.3]

Title: The Camden & Atlantic Railroad. The short and popular route to Atlantic City Pocket time card-season of 1882. Depots in Philadelphia foot of Vine-Street and Shackamaxon Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a well-dressed family on the beach, including the father wearing a top hat and cane and the mother holding a yellow parasol. Two girls play near the waves while their parents look on. Vignette inset into a larger scene depicing a sailboat in the ocean, a lighthouse, and seashells lining the shore in the foreground. The Camden & Atlantic Railroad began regular service between Camden and Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1855. The railroad was taken over by the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad in 1883., Contains a condensed timetable ("summer arrangement") for trains traveling between Atlantic City and Philadelphia printed on verso. Includes times for the South Atlantic City Branch and the locations of ticket offices in Philadelphia, Germantown, and Camden, New Jersey., 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 - Camden [1975.F.25]

Title: [Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup". Four trade cards depict views of Fairmount Park, including one eight-page foldout advertisement containing advertising text pages. Illustrations include the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic" that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that [Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Two photographic reproductions depict inverted images of sailboats on the ocean and an inset portrait of a woman. Green was a patent medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and Donaldson Brothers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Two prints [P.9993.5 & 6] gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Green's [111016.D; P.9490.38; P.9642.1; P.9685.2; P.9993.5 & 6]

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