Contents of "Parr's American camp chest" printed in two columns below title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rodgers [(2)5786.F.132a]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting bedroom and parlor furniture, including beds, bed frames, backboards, bureaus, mirrors, arm chairs, and sofas. The style "Burger & Co." appears in 1881 city directories., Advertising text printed on versos: Burger & Co., manufacturers and dealers in fine furniture. All goods guaranteed. N.W. cor. of Eleventh and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Our plan of business: 1. We guarantee all goods to be perfect. 2. Will exchange all goods if not satisfactory. 3. No misrepresentation of goods. Special attention given to upholstery and drapery. Full assortment of bedding., 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 - Burger [1975.F.61; 1975.F.68]
Visual pun on the Freedman's Bureau, a benevolent government organization, which aided formerly enslaved African Americans in the South by providing food, housing, and jobs, as well as establishing schools, hospitals, and a court system. Depicts a simply furnished attic room where an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, ties his tie as he stands beside his bed and before his dresser/bureau. Atop the bureau, which has its top drawer open, is a stand with a broken mirror upon which you see the man's reflection. A portrait of Lincoln and a bow and fiddle hang on the wall. His overcoat and hat rest on a chair with a broken back behind him., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 1968., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Worth was a comic and genre artist whose popular work was published by the lithographic firm Currier & Ives.
Creator
Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917, artist
Date
1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1868-2W [7687.F]
