Block numbered in one place: 3379., Image of a parrot perched on a branch., Tape (inscribed “272”) on obverse., Illustration appears in A History of birds, Child's home library series no. 9 (Philadelphia, between 1857 and 1870?), p. 8., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Trade card containing a comic view titled "We've Had a D__L Of A Time." Shows a well-dressed woman entering a disheveled room containing a parrot and monkey. The parrot greets the woman next to his overturned cage and in front of a rumpled bed on which a monkey sits. Debris covers the floor near an overturned chair and a broken mirror barely hangs from the wall. Also contains a "Business Directory" of twenty-one "Names and Address of Reliable Business men of Philadelphia, Pa." on verso. Businesses include Nock, as well as Columbia Laundry; J. D. Madden, Plumber & Gas Fitter; and C. F. Zimmerman, Musical Instruments., Printed on recto: Over., Copyrighted by H. Mellins in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C., 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
c1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.41]
Illustrated trade card depicting parrots perched on flowering branches., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Holloway [P.9111.20]
Illustrated stock trade card depicting a parrot perched on flowers next to a business card for Jacob E. Herbert's home furnishings store in Philadelphia., Copyrighted by J.H. Bufford's Sons, Boston., 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 - Herbert [P.9802.10]
Allegorical print depicting the Americas as a Black woman and boy. The woman dressed in a bejeweled feather head piece, pearls, and shawl has a black parrot perched on her hand and overlooks the shoulder of a reclining boy. The boy, draped in a blue cloth and holding a bow, his cache of arrows beneath him, wears a feather armband and gold collar. He returns the glance of the woman. A palm tree stands behind them., Title from item., Date inferred from content., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 1971., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Haid was a Bavarian engraver, portraitist, and book illustrator.
Creator
Haid, Johann Jacob, 1704-1767, artist
Date
[ca. 1755]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC-Allegories [7993.F.3]
Illustrated trade card depicting indigenous men and women serving a white woman in a tropical paradise. She relaxes in a hammock as a man fans her with a paddle fan, a woman sets a tray of food next to her, and a man gathers coconuts into a basket. Additional imagery includes palm trees, a fountain, a monkey, a parrot, and pineapples. Warner & Merritt began importing fruit in Philadelphia ca. 1869 and were one of the largest firms importing West Indian fruit in the country by the time of their insolvency in 1884., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1884]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Warner [P.9947]
