Bailey & Co.'s mammoth 5 ct. store, 13 North Eighth Street.
Title
Bailey & Co.'s mammoth 5 ct. store, 13 North Eighth Street
Description
Illustrated trade card for Bailey & Co.'s five cent variety store depicting the store's name and address on a business card tucked into a rose., 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 - Bailey & Co. [1975.F.36]
Circular. Hear ye! Hear! Hear! Hear! : Lovers of the Constitution and the Union, and our one government: Your servant and patriot brother was disabled by gun-shot wounds in battle, but will not surrender, no, never! yet appeals to a discriminating public
Title
Circular. Hear ye! Hear! Hear! Hear! Lovers of the Constitution and the Union, and our one government: Your servant and patriot brother was disabled by gun-shot wounds in battle, but will not surrender, no, never! yet appeals to a discriminating public for patronage. P.S. Help such as persevere. We are enlisted for life
Description
William Constable appears in Philadelphia directories in 1864, in a variety store, 2015 Locust Street, and in 1865 as a confectionery, 832 Shippen., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Constable, Wm. (William)
Date
[1864 or 1865?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Constab (2)5786.F.112b (McAllister)
Rabbit hunt.
Title
Rabbit hunt Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila
Description
Illustrated "hidden puzzle" trade card depicting a winter scene showing a small building with a large flag inscribed "Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila." Includes bare, broken trees and boulders in the foreground in which the figures of a hunter and at least two rabbits are "hidden." Jacob Shaffer was a propietor of a varieties and notions store during the 1860s., 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 - Shaffer [P.9582.85]
J.C. Brenner, Jr. & Co., No. 215 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia.
Title
J.C. Brenner, Jr. & Co., No. 215 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia Holiday presents. Headquarters for toys, games, frames, stationery, walnut fancy goods, novelties, &c. [see other side
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a sprig of flowers., Advertising text printed on verso: Bargains in dolls, games, vases, albums, books, blocks, stationery, photographs, bouquet tables, pocket books, pocket knives, writing desks, work boxes, toilet soaps, scrap pictures, Christmas cards, tool chests. Largest variety velve frames in the city, from 5 cts. up. Mechanical toys in endless variety. Open evenings., 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 - Brenner [1975.F.38]