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- Title
- Fish hawk's nest & tree near Sea Girt Station, [NJ]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a bare tree with a large nest in its top branches. A wooden fence runs in front of the tree. Other leafy trees surround the bare one., Time: 9:20, Light: Bright, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- September 12, 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.752]
- Title
- Fish-hawk's nest near Sea Girt station
- Description
- Glass negative showing a bare tree with a large nest in the top branches. Other trees stand nearby. A wooden fence runs in front of the tree., Photographer remarks: Unevenly developed., Time: 9:45, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- August 31, 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.721]
- Title
- Tree & fish-hawk's nest opp[osite] Newman's farm, [Sea Girt, NJ]
- Description
- Glass negative showing a leafy tree with a large nest in the top branches standing next to a cornfield. A farm house is visible in the distance to the left., Time: 10, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
- Creator
- Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
- Date
- August 31, 1885
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.722]
- Title
- Finding the bird's nest
- Description
- Genre scene showing two girls looking at a bird's nest on top of rocks next to a picket fence. One girl, attired in bloomers, kneels on the ground to observe the nest., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's imprint on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Stereoscopes and views, wholesale and retail., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp, 15., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.9022.68]
- Title
- E. McKelvey, fine family groceries, 1118 Columbia Ave Choice family flour a specialty
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for M. McKelvey adjacent to a bird's nest in the grass with two brightly colored birds and a butterfly below the card., 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 - McKelvey [P.9802.13]
- Title
- [Shoneman Bros. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for Shoneman Bros. trimmings and fancy goods' store at 116, 118 & 129 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict boats on the water, a child peaking through flowers, and a bird perched on flowers near its nest containing baby birds., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.800] copyrighted 1880 by Thomas W. Price Co., One print [1975.F.800] contains Shakespeare quote printed on recto: Words are easy like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend, whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; but if store of crowns be scant, no man will supply thy want.", One print [1975.F.809] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Shoneman Bros.' inexpensive gloves, fancy goods, fringe & buttons, and trimmings & fancy goods., 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 - Shoneman Bros. [1975.F.772; 1975.F.800; 1975.F.809]
- Title
- F. Defoney's oyster saloon, No. 545 North Third Street, Philadelphia. Fried oysters a specialty
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds, nests, butterflies, and flowers., 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 - Defoney's [1975.F.247; 1975.F.275-276]
- Title
- Geo. W. Allen, hatter, 808 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Trade card illustration for hatter Geo. W. Allen depicts a decorative fan with an illustration of a boy and a girl holding and inspecting a bird's nest with eggs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Allen [P.9771.1]
- Title
- [Bartholomay Brewing Co. trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for the brewing company based in Rochester, N.Y. Illustrations include the company's trademark vignette of a wheel with wings; a spider hanging from a web attached to a sprig of flowers; and a bird perched on a branch below a nest filled with eggs. Founded in 1852 and in operation until 1934, the brewing company was styled "Bartholomay Brewing Company" from 1874 to 1889., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Hofstetter Bros., Prints contain advertising text on rectos for Bartholomay Brewing Co.'s Stock Lager. One print [1975.F.35] also includes addresses for the office and depot of the Philadelphia branch., 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 - Bartholomay [1975.F.35 and 1975.F.81]
- Title
- The cruel boys robbing the bird of her little ones Harken! my boys. Would a mother like to have a cruel robber come and take her little ones out of the cradle, or the crib while she has gone out to get bread for them? Answer this question before you touch these helpless birds
- Description
- Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two boys climbing a large tree to rob a bird's nest of young birds or eggs., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "The young robbers" moralizing that it is wrong to take advantage of and compromise God's weaker, helpless creatures., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 46, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.3]
- Title
- [S. & H. Buckley trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for S. & H. Buckley, manufacturers and retailers of boots and shoes, at 127 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include an old woman snooping on two young lovers; a boy and a girl walking arm in arm; and a bird perched on a nest feeding its young., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include A. Haury., Advertising text on verso of one print [P.9728.11] promotes Buckley's line of wedding slippers., 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 - Buckley [1975.F.69; P.9728.11; P.9802.9]
- Title
- [African American boy in tree reaching for eggs in a bird’s nest]
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Joshua Walker’s bone fertilizer and depicting a caricature of an African American boy in a tree trying to take bird eggs from a nest. The barefooted boy is attired in a straw hat that is torn at the top and on the brim and a white, long-sleeved shirt that covers to his thighs. The shirt has a large tear on the left shoulder exposing his chest and arm. With his mouth open, the boy stands on a branch in a tree full of pink flowers. He holds a branch with his right hand and reaches his left hand towards a bird’s nest with two eggs. A yellow and black birds flies away in the lower left. Joshua Walker was a fertilizer merchant who was active circa 1880s-1900 in Baltimore, Md., Title supplied by cataloger., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of the advertised business., Date inferred from the date supplied in the advertising text on the verso., Advertising text printed on verso: Sample No. 1747. Selected at McKnightsto[?]. Office Penn’a Board of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., June 2, 1894. Analysis by Dr. Wm. Frear, Chemist, Pennsylvania State Board of Agr State College P.O., Centre Co., Penn’a. Manufactured by Jo[sh]ua Walker, Baltimore, Md. Name of Fertilizer, -Ec[onomical] [Amm]oniated Bone. Moisture….15.10 a/c 302 [?]g, Bagging, &c.,.. Souluble Phosphoric Acid, …6.68 a/c 134 lbs per ton,…Reverted “ 2.17 a/c 43 “” …Insoluble “” 1.28 a/c 26 “”… Potash…1/14 a/c 23 “” …Nitrogen…1.45 a/c 29 “”… Comparative Commercial value per ton, …, Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1894]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Walker [P.2017.95.186]
- Title
- [John Wanamaker & Co., 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards for John Wanamaker & Co.'s 818, 820 & 822 Chestnut Street store in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict the eastern and western hemispheres of the world; sheep standing in the snow; striped socks; butterflies; an anthropomorphic owl attired in a plaid coat and top hat standing in the curve of the moon observing the townscape below; a boy and a girl standing on a path below a tree in which a large birds sits; Philadelphia's City Hall; a boy riding on a sled through the snow pulled by two turkeys; a bird on a tree branch; a hearth with a kettle over a fire; rabbits and a grasshopper; an owl and birds; a well-dressed boy reading a sign on a stone all for boys' clothing at John Wanamaker & Co.'s store; putti seated in a bird's nest and playing with a Dutch clog in a pond; Japanese men assembling a paper lantern; an owl flying above two Japanese men huddled on the ground; cricket players; a large ship at sea framed by a large horseshoe; Japanese men running and falling from their sled in the snow; an angry merchant holding a $20.00 I.O.U. from a man attired in a new suit smoking a cigarette; men sitting on the field of a shooting range; and children playing with wood blocks and spelling "Wanamaker". Includes a metamorphic trade card, which when open shows an advertising board for John Wanamaker & Co. propped in a man's crooked teeth in his wide open mouth and when closed, shows the man with his eyes open and mouth closed. In 1869, Wanamaker established John Wanamaker & Co. on the 800 block of Chestnut Street., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.940 & 1006] copyrighted 1881 by E.O. Goodman., Two prints [1975.F.963 & 966] copyrighted 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Two prints [1975.F.990, 991, 1000] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., One print [1975.F.993] copyrighted 1879 by G.H. Kendall, engraver, 285 Broadway, New York., Printers and engravers include Hiram P. Arms, Jr. (Philadelphia), Rogers & Florance (Philadelphia), L. Prang & Co. (Boston), and G.H. Kendall (New York)., Four prints [1975.F.958, 979 & 980, 993] contain advertising text printed on versos promoting John Wanamaker & Co.'s quality clothing and low prices., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1878-ca. 1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - John Wanamaker & Co. [1975.F.906; 1975.F.916 & 917; 1975.F.924; 1975.F.926; 1975.F.940 & 941; 1975.F.946; 1975.F.957 & 958; 1975.F.962 & 963; 1975.F.966; 1975.F.977; 1975.F.979 & 980; 1975.F.987 & 988; 1975.F.990 & 991; 1975.F.993; 1975.F.1000; 1975.F.1006; 1975.F.1009; P.9651.24; P.9728.16; P.9745]