Illustrated trade card depicting a couple riding in a cart drawn by a goat. Includes a dog running along side the goat, a peacock blocking the goat's path in the foreground, and a carousel in the distant background., Copyright 1882, Graf Bros., Advertising text printed on verso: For your common sense shoes go to the common sense shoemaker. 122 North Eighth St., near Arch. For your children's shoes, go to the common sense shoemaker., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Graf Brothers, the lithograph firm operated by German brothers Julius F. (b. 1846) and Charles L. Graf (1849-1900) in Philadelphia 1873-1970s, produced advertisements, trade cards, labels and maps.
Date
c1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Common [1975.F.231]
View showing a playground on the Sweet Briar estate, including two tents, one shading a merry-go-round, the other benches. Also shows a swing set in the foreground and a group sitting under the shade of trees on the lawn in the distance., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [8353.F.7]
View showing a playground on the Sweetbriar estate in West Fairmount Park, including two tents (one shading a merry-go-round) and a swing set. Men sit and stand on the hillside in the foreground and under the empty tent and near the merry-go-round in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Incorrect location in manuscript note on mount: Flying horse tents, Lemon Hill., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount. Series number also partially obsured., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount 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
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.102]
