Series of trade cards for J.C. Finn & Sons paper hanging store at Tenth and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia depicting a girl applying adhesive to wallpaper strips and sloppily hanging them on the wall and flowering vines bordering a framed landscape view of a watermill., One print [1975.F.307] copyrighted by Chas. W. Frost 1881., One print [1975.F.308] contains advertising text promoting "French tapestry papers" and "special designs for ceiling ornamentation" printed on verso., Printers and engravers include Farmer, Livermore & Co., 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 - Finn [1975.F.307 & 308]
Series of illustrated trade cards for J.F. Hayes' St. George Pharmacy at the southwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia. Products advertised include soda water, Saint George Cologne, and soda mint tablets. Illustrations depict monkeys, flowers, flowers in vases, paddle fans, and a clown. Also shows a group of people speeding down a snowy slope on a large wooden sled. Turkeys dodge the oncoming sled in the foreground and a dog chases it in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.350] copyrighted 1877 by J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston)., Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford's Sons (Boston)., Two prints contain advertising text printed on versos., 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 - Saint George [1975.F.350 & 351; 1975.F.359; 1975.F.414; 1975.F.416-419; 1975.F.441]
Illustrated trade card depicting a frog near flowers in a decorative vase., 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 - Brotherton [1975.F.60]
Exhibit title: Kiriu-Kosho-Kuwaisha, First Japanese Manufacturing & Trading Co., Tokio, Exhibit #286, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg.
Three ornate bronze vases.
Exhibit title: Elinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate vases decorated with figurines of ladies and cherubs, platters, and a mirror. Titles on labels: Helicon Vase--England, and: Helicon Vase and Pompeian Lady with gold and silver mirror, and: Taken expressly for Harper's weekly.
Collection of metal ware, including two painted plates -- one with an Asian motif, the other with a Native American motif -- sugar bowls, vases, coffeepots, creamer and a candlestick decorated with Native American motifs and two Indian figurines, one in a canoe.
Exhibit title: Tiffany & Co., New York, N.Y., Exhibit #430, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Titles on labels: Selection from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Selection's from Tiffany & Co.'s exhibit, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
Exhibit title: Elkinston [sic] & Co., Birmingham, Exhibit #134, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Ornate enameled and repousse work platters, vases, and urns decorated with figurines and plants. Titles on labels: Cloisonne and repousse -- England, and: Selection from silver and steel repousse, works of art, and: Taken expressly for Harper's Weekly.
Display of Moorish furniture: wall unit, small table, urns, vases, bowls, carpets, and blankets. Seated in the display are two mannequins in Moorish dress.
Back view of an ornate silver century vase with figures around the base: one on a horse and the other in a chariot, and three figures on the top. Exhibit title: Gorham Manufacturing Co., Providence, R.I., Exhibit #440, Main Exhibition Building, Bldg. #1. Front view of same vase is #2544 in the Catalogue of the Centennial Photographic Co.'s View of the International Exhibition.
Exterior overview of a Japanese style structure with a display of vases and with plants in front. Exhibit is surrounded by a fence, a road runs in front.
View of alabaster vases and urns created by Viti Brothers of Philadelphia on display in the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Also shows chandeliers and candelabra on display behind the Viti Brothers' exhibit. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Charles Isaacs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Centennial Photographic Co.
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8975.3]
Interior views of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute (13-17 South Seventh Street), showing displays by Edwin Harrington & Son, manufacturer of machinist tools; F. Gossin, terra cotta; Harrison Bros., white lead; and Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures. Images depict machinery; terra cotta vases, pedestals, statues, and urns; containers of lead; and gas fixtures and lamps. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Titles written in manuscript notes on mounts., Pink mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Exhibitions [P.9299.105-108]
View showing porcelain ware, mostly vases, in a stall in the Japanese Court within the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Vases, bowls, and jars of various sizes are displayed on tiered tables and on the carpeted floor. Framed artwork hangs on the walls. A small decorative table is in the left. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Date from item., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., Advertisements printed on verso for twelve businesses including Centennial Photographic Company, Gilbert & Bacon, Partridge's Dining Rooms, The Crosscup & West Wood and Photo-Engraving Co., Starkey & Palen, Amos Hillborn & Co., A. & G. Taylor, Hale & Kilburn Mfg. Co., Wm. J. Dornan, I.H. Wisler, Eichmann & Meier, and R. Levick, Son & Co., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Centennial Photographic Co.
Date
1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.9022.5]
View of large ornamental arch in Japanese section of main building. In foreground people sit on benches. In background large display of Japanese goods including a pagoda, screens and bronze vases, urns, and figurines.
View of a flower arrangement adorned with butterflies in a vase on a table covered with a patterned cloth., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. was one of the largest suppliers of photographic apparatus in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their business moved from 501 Broadway to 591 Broadway in 1869.
Date
[ca. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Anthony - Decoration and Ornamentation [P.9022.10]
Album page with embossed border and containing a drawing of a vase of flowers. Shows an arrangement of flowers including roses, camellias, pansies and forget-me-nots, in an urn-shaped vase. Border is composed of a leaf design., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from album page., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Douglass, was an artist, prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, educator, and anti-slavery activist.
Creator
Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882, artist
Date
1843
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Martina Dickerson album [13859.Q.78]
Album page containing a drawing of a white vase of flowers on a square-shaped base and above a poem about memory and remembrance. Flowers depicted are of various kinds and include roses. They are long-stemmed, have leaves, and are in colors of pink, red, yellow, white and blue., Title from manuscript verse., Date inferred from complementary entries in album., Contains four lines of verse: Long, long be my heart with your memory fill’d!—/Like the vase in which roses have once been distill’d—/ You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will;/ But the scent of the roses will hang round it still., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Forten, was a civil rights activist, founding member of the multiracial Pennsylvania Female Anti-Slavery Society, and educator. She was the daughter of Philadelphia African American entrepreneur and abolitionist James Forten and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten.
Creator
Forten, Margaretta, 1806-1875, artist
Date
[ca. 1834]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Amy Matilda Cassey album [P.9764.16]
