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Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette showing a female allegorical figure seated in a chariot pulled by lions. She wears a crown, and holds a key and sceptor. Figure possibly personifies earth or represents the republic of the United States., Includes verse: Love thy Maker-let it be duty and delight to thee. When the day breaks o'er the hill. At the sunset hour so still. Let each living creature share Thy warm love & be they care; Let what'er thine eyes may see Form a link twixt heaven & thee., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.155]

Title: Todmorden Mills. Highland. Warranted. All wool
Description: Textile label for the woolen mills containing a vignette surrounded by pictorial details and filigree. Vignette depicts the head of a woman partially framed by a garland of flowers. Pictorial details include banners. Todmorden Mills, originally established in 1831 as John Bancroft & Son in Media, Pa., was sold by the family in 1842 and repurchased by Joseph Bancroft in 1854. By the 1870s, it was one of the largest woolen mills in the country., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 29. Size 68 x 136., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.104]

Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette, including a portrait of George Washington, and ornamental side borders. Vignette depicts a female figure and a cherub flanking the portrait near a rose bush and elevated on a tuft of ground. The cherub lays a rose garland across the top of the portrait. Grape vines comprise the borders., Presented to Mr. Charles Nash. By A. B. Sanford, Instructor., Manuscript note on verso: Presented to Charles B. Nash Esq. By Miss Amillie B. Sanford. [Illegible ] of Hamilton, Madison County, New York State., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.151]

Title: Certificate of promotion This may certify, that [blank] by diligent attention to study, and punctual attendance at school, has made such proficiency in the studies of [blank] department as entitles [blank] to a promotion to a higher grade; and by [blank] correct deportment and exemplary conduct, has merited the esteem and affectionate regard of [blank] teachers. In consideration of which, this certificate is granted by the board of directors, as a testimonial of their approbation and favour
Description: Printed on rose-colored paper; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 16.4 x 22.2 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. May 24, 1840 for Miss Mary Shertz, signed by John Mathiot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Lancaster (Pa.), School Board
Date: [1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1840 Lanca 112040.O (Roughwood)

Title: Foxy Granduncle's first mistake. How is that? Hello! Hello! Hello! Well, well, well! What's this?
Description: Metamorphic foldout trade card promoting "Imperial Metal Polish." Card composed to portray the perceived and actual scene viewed by an old man "Granduncle" looking through a peephole in a fence (completely folded). The perceived scene shows a bare bottom and a woman's feet (partially-folded). The actual scene shows a racily-attired young woman, smoking cigars, drinking, and seated on a hammock near a pig with his rear to the viewer (unfolded). Also contains the "Imperial" trademark label depicting an image of the world. Label captioned "Reg. U.S. Pat. Office.", Distributor's stamp on verso: Hainsworth Supply Co., 2247 N. 8th St., Phila., Registration Applied For., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.27]

Title: Marriage certificate This is to certify, that Mr. [blank] and M[blank] [blank] were by me united in matrimony, this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and [blank] according to law, and the custom of the church
Description: At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [not after 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)

Title: [Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: Coll. Zinman Blind: [1] Specimen of type. Medium type. This sample of Howe's Boston line type appeared in the Ninth annual report of the trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind (Boston 1841) -- [2] Card embossed with a geometric diagram, and the Lord's prayer. This appeared as a specimen in Address to the trustees of the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (Boston 1833) -- [3] Of Greece & of Rome? raised-letter, all capitals, signed: W. Crafts -- [4] Poem in two verses by Anna McClintock, a blind poet, printed in raised letter on pink paper; first line: Art those weary burdened one? -- [5] Child's book, leaf 27; text is common to the moral lessons in spellers of the 1820s -- [6] New York point alphabet. Specimen printed in Boston line type and New York point; inscribed: Myra M. Cox PO address 624 Batavia -- [7] Students' magazine, Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the blind, v. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 3, 1838), leaf 3 --, Contents: #Coll. Zinman Blind: [8] The pilgrims progress, leaf 79, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [9] New Jerusalem Church, leaves 141-142 -- [10] Proverbs chapter 6, leaves 980-981, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [11] Visitation of prisoners, leaf 245 of the Book of common prayer, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 [12] David Copperfield, leaves 188 and 193, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [13] Type specimen, [2] leaves., In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1830-1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 1 Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.1-7 (Zinman), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 2 #Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.8-13 (Zinman)

Title: The Philadelphia Wagon manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa Wagons. Coaches. Autombiles. Ambulances. Nothing to risk when we do your work
Description: Advertisement blotters, reused as mounts, containing calendars and vignette views of wagons designed for specific firms by the manufactory. Wagons include H.H. Battles, flowers; Dexter's Tip-Top Bread (Springfield, Mass.); and Lit Brothers Furniture. Also contains cut-outs of fashionable female figures attired in dresses captioned in type "Most Beautiful"; "Merry Youth"; and "Easy Always" pasted on the versos., Printed below title: Wm. A. Rech, President; W. E. Marbaker, Vice President; and J. Edwin Rech, Secretary and Treasurer., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.50-52]

Title: Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada No. 84 Chestnut Street and without whose signature to this label it cannot be genuine. D. Jayne [facsimile signature]
Description: Patent medicine label containing an "infirmary" scene with four women, including a nursemaid, and several children. Shows the nursemaid comforting a girl as she is fed a spoon of medicine from a seated woman upon who children crawl and tug. In the left, another seated woman holds a baby. Behind her, a woman reaches for a jar of medicine on an upper shelf in a large cabinet. Jayne began to produce the carmative balsam (probably his first patent medicine) in 1831, which remained on the market until the 1930s., Printed below image: Keep the Tops of the Bottles Up., Several lines of advertising text printed on recto. Text promotes the balsam as a "safe and effective remedy" for several ailments, including griping pains, headache, hysterics, nervous tremors and twitchings, and "for all bowel affections and nervous diseases.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler., Upper right corner missing.
Date: c1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.170]

Title: Keystone Normal School Class tribute to Ellen S. Christ
Description: Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
Date: [1874.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F

Title: Hungry Continentals paid busy lass a visit. Helping himself to fruit, cried one, "What is it?" This machine which does suck work! Would I were the owner!" "Sir," she said, " It is the Enterprise cherry stoner."
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Cherry Stoners." Contains an anachronistic scene including a caricaturized depiction of Continental Army officers. Depicts the officers eating pitted cherries from a pan under the Enterprise cherry stoner. A female cook carrying a basket of cherries addresses them. Another basket of cherries lay on the floor. Also contains a view of the Mines Building designed by S. S. Beman. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Cherry Stoners, Japanned or Tinned. Our Cherry Stoners, Nos.1 and 2, work rapidly and efficiently. they may be easily adjusted by thumb-screws to adapt them to the different sizes of cherry stones; are well-made and equal to the best in the market. No. 12 Cherry Stoner will stone cherries with the least possible cutting or disfiguring of fruit. Every good housewife will appreciate this for preserving purposes. Prices: No. 1, Jappanned, $7.50 per doz. No. 2, Tinned, $9.00 " ". No. 12 [2 crossed out] " 12.00 " "., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts an "Enterprise" Cherry Stoner. Cherries fill the basin of the machine and a pan underneath it. Pits fall from the stoner into a cup., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.64 & 75]

Title: [Helen Beitler graphic ephemera collection]
Description: Collection of illustrated ephemera, primarily tradecards, envelopes, receipts, letterheads, billheads, and labels, for predominantly Pennsylvania businesses and trades. Some trade cards and labels are embossed, die cut, or metamorphic designs. Businesses and trades include the tobacco, transportation, and rags and paper industry; manufacturers of carriages and wagons, saddlery and harnesses, musical instruments, textiles, and pins; dealers in lumber, furniture, willow ware, clothing, medicines, seeds, spices, and groceries; stationers, printers, and publishers; and a dentist and violin teacher. Also contains rewards of merit; advertising calendars; mid 19th-century miniature illustrated seals containing admonitions; an 1872 American Wood Paper Company pass; an advertising flier for the New Stevens Spring Tooth Harrow plow; tobacco silks containing portraits of prominent Native American chiefs; a reprint of the 1841 "A Plan of the Borough of Harrisburg" designed by John Probst; a wrapper for J. Geo. Hintz, a Reading, Pa. stationer; and menu for the Delavan House hotel under the proprietorship of Charles Leland in Albany, NY. Illustrations depict various subjects. The most numerous are views of storefronts, industrial complexes, modes of transportation, women, children, and animals., Title supplied by cataloger., Artists include Helena Maquire and John Probst., Various engravers and printers, including Allen, Lane & Scott; American Bank Note Co.; Calvert Lith. Co.; E. Ketterlinus & Co.; Forbes Co.; Gies & Co.; Geo. S. Harris; W. Hart; F. S. Hickman; J. H. Buffords Sons; ; Knapp Co. Lith.; Charles Magnus; Charles Mortiz; J. Ottmann Lith. Co.; Phoenix Eng. Co.; L. Prang & Co.; and Ritter & Co.,, Several of the letterheads, billheads, and envelopes contain manuscript notes, primarily numeric calculations, on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1830-ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection [P.2011.10]

Title: The life & age of man. Stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave
Description: Allegorical print containing a portrayal of a male figure aging from a baby to an older man on a pedestal of life. Includes rhymed couplets describing each age below the image corresponding to animal vignettes adorning the pedestal styled as up and down steps. Shows the figure, in the far left, as an infant as a "lamb like innocent" in the lap of his mother, her long dark hair loose down her back, and attired in a red dress; at the age of 10 with dark hair and attired in a blue pant suit and cap and holding a stick and hoop as he "goat like skips and joys"; at the age of 20 attired in a black top hat, black waistcoat, and blue striped pants when "love doth swell his veins and heifer like untamed remains"; at the age of 30 attired in a military uniform "with bull like strength he smites his foes"; at the age of 40 attired in a military uniform holding a sword and flag and "naught his courage quails but lion like by force prevails"; at the age of 50 with greying hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and his "strength fails but with wit fox like he helps to manage it"; at the age of 60 with long white hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and holding out a cane while "wolf like he tries his wealth to raise"; at the age of 70 with rounded shoulders and attired in a black long coat and top hat and cane in hand, "he'll hear and tell but dog like loves at home to dwell"; at the age of 80 slightly hunched and reaching out as "a cat keeps house and loves the fire" he has the same desire; at the age of 90, in the far right, severely hunched over and reliant on a cane that he must suffer everywhere as "weak asses backs were made to bare"; and at the age of 100, attired in a white night gown, seated in a chaise lounge, and tended by a young woman, attired in a red dress and holding a cup as "the sick of life the grave he fears.", Image also includes a tree in full leaf (left), a dead withered tree (right), and a vignette scene set in a tree-lined pasture behind a stone wall entitled "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you!" Scene shows bare-chested male figure attired in a loincloth and with their left hand up and right arm out between a couple, in the right, and a table of men drinking, in the left. A cross is seen in the distance behind the couple., Title from item., Date inferred from dates publisher Nathaniel Currier operated as sole proprietor of his firm., Printed on recto: 87., Currier operated as a sole proprietor at 152 Nassau Street from 1838 to 1857 before partnering with Frederick Ives.
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories [P.2004.14.1]

Title: A bran new coon in town
Description: Racist, satiric postcard depicting an African American family (portrayed as racist stereotypes) welcoming a “new” member, a baby. Shows the grandfather standing and weighing the infant on a hand held scale, as the grandmother, attired in a head kerchief, a floral shirt, a skirt, and an apron, cradles the baby’s head. In the right, the father smiles as he stands leaning down with both hands clutching a small table. In the center, a young boy sits at the table eating as he looks up at the baby. In the left, the mother sits smiling beside a stove as she pours water from a kettle into a cup., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1898, and published by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn., Originally published in an 1898 edition of Leslie's Weekly as part of "The Blackville Gallery" series under the title "Weighing the Christmas Baby.", RVCDC, Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Genre [P.9725.1]

Title: The life & age of man. Stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave
Description: Allegorical print containing a portrayal of a male figure aging from a baby to an older man on a pedestal of life. Includes rhymed couplets describing each age below the image corresponding to animal vignettes adorning the pedestal styled as up and down steps. Shows the figure, in the far left, as an infant as a "lamb like innocent" in the lap of his mother, her long dark hair loose down her back, and attired in a red dress; at the age of 10 with dark hair and attired in a blue pant suit and cap and holding a stick and hoop as he "goat like skips and joys"; at the age of 20 attired in a black top hat, black waistcoat, and blue striped pants when "love doth swell his veins and heifer like untamed remains"; at the age of 30 attired in a military uniform "with bull like strength he smites his foes"; at the age of 40 attired in a military uniform holding a sword and flag and "naught his courage quails but lion like by force prevails"; at the age of 50 with greying hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and his "strength fails but with wit fox like he helps to manage it"; at the age of 60 with long white hair, attired in a black suit and top hat, and holding out a cane while "wolf like he tries his wealth to raise"; at the age of 70 with rounded shoulders and attired in a black long coat and top hat and cane in hand, "he'll hear and tell but dog like loves at home to dwell"; at the age of 80 slightly hunched and reaching out as "a cat keeps house and loves the fire" he has the same desire; at the age of 90, in the far right, severely hunched over and reliant on a cane that he must suffer everywhere as "weak asses backs were made to bare"; and at the age of 100, attired in a white night gown, seated in a chaise lounge, and tended by a young woman, attired in a red dress and holding a cup as "the sick of life the grave he fears.", Image also includes a tree in full leaf (left), a dead withered tree (right), and a vignette scene set in a tree-lined pasture behind a stone wall entitled "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you!" Scene shows bare-chested male figure attired in a loincloth and with their left hand up and right arm out between a couple, in the right, and a table of men drinking, in the left. A cross is seen in the distance behind the couple., Title from item., Date inferred from dates publisher Nathaniel Currier operated as sole proprietor of his firm., Printed on recto: 87., Currier operated as a sole proprietor at 152 Nassau Street from 1838 to 1857 before partnering with Frederick Ives.
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories [P.2004.14.1]

Title: Mrs. Lena Mason's Chautauqua meetings, Aug. 1st - Sept. Phila, Pa
Description: Postcard showing an African American Chautauqua meeting. Depicts African American men, women, and children gathered near several tents. In the foreground, an African American woman and man, possibly Mrs. and Mr. Mason, stand and look at the viewer next to a wooden chair with a hat on top of it. Chautauqua meetings, developed from the Lyceum Movement, were traveling tent shows providing education and entertainment to early 20th-century audiences., Title and date from item., Photographic paper company's imprint on verso: Mermont Photo Paper Co., New York., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Events [P.9933.9]

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