[E. & H.T. Anthony trade cards]
Title
[E. & H.T. Anthony trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards containing patriotic vignettes. Images include eagles clutching olive branches, arrows, and shields in their talons and a woman, possibly Liberty, clothed in robes. Pictorial details also include an "E plurubus unum" banner., Title supplied by cataloger., Prints (2)5786.F.117d, g-h printed in blue ink on green paper and envelope (2)5786.F.117j printed in green ink on blue paper., Advertising text printed on rectos for E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway - New York (3 doors from St. Nicholas Hotel), manufacturer, publisher, and importer of photographic materials, carte de visite photographs, stereoscopic views, and card portraits of eminent persons., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Edward and Henry Tiebout Anthony operated one of the largest photographic manufacturing and distribution businesses in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Anthony [(2)5786.F.117d, g-h, j; P.9631.1]
Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864. : The Executive Committee would call the attention of the public to the photographic studio, Station 77 (3d story, over the Furniture Department), under the management of Messrs. Gurney & Son, who are prepared to make carte
Title
Metropolitan Fair, April, 1864 The Executive Committee would call the attention of the public to the photographic studio, Station 77 (3d story, over the Furniture Department), under the management of Messrs. Gurney & Son, who are prepared to make cartes de visite and vignettes of all favoring them with a sitting, at the liberal price of $5.00 per dozen, in aid of the Sanitary Commission
Description
Printed on card stock; printed area, including ruled border, measures 24.5 x 31.1 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.). Executive Committee, Executive Committee
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.130a (McAllister)