Illustrated trade card depicting a Roman soldier protecting a mother and child and is equipped with a galea or helmet, a sword labeled "regulator" and a shield labeled "Simmons Liver Regulator". He lifts his sword to slay snakes labeled "dypepsia," "fever," "biliousness," and "heartburn". Simmons Liver Regulator was manufactured by J.H. Zeilin & Company., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as purely vegetable and a safe family medicine and includes testimonials., 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 - Simmons [1975.F.853]
Series of titled landscape views include, "View on Broadhead's Creek," "Little Bushkill Creek, above the Falls," "Buttermilk Falls," "Buttermilk Falls, vicinity of Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania," "Caldeno Falls," "Delaware River, from Prospect Rock," "The Gap, Blockhead Mountain," "The Gap, from the bed of the river," "Gap, from Table Rock, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania," "Marshall's Falls, Marshall's Creek," and "Mossy dell". Images depict tree-lined creeks, waterfalls, rocks, dams, a mossy dell and a snake in the Delaware Water Gap. Many of the views contain posed male figures, possibly John Moran and John Storey., Titles printed on labels pasted on versos., Photographer's labels pasted on versos., Imprint of distributor, Johnson & D'Utassy, photographers, printed on verso of two items in series: 952, 954, 956 Broadway, New York, corner Madison Square, opposite Fifth Avenue Hotel, and Kittatinny House, Delaware Water Gap, Pa. All branches of the photographic art executed in the most skillful manner and with despatch. Photographs colored in oil or water colors or india ink. N.B. A large and choice collection of stereoscopic views, taken from nature, on hand. John H. Johnson. Fred. George D'Utassy., Imprint of distributor, J.W. Queen & Co., 924 Chestnut Street, stamped on verso of one items in series., Buff and yellow mounts with square and rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Moran and Storey was a short-lived partnership between Philadelphia photographers John Moran and John Storey in the early 1860s.
Creator
Moran & Storey
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran & Storey - Views [8248.F.2-4; 8248.F.12; 8353.F.29; P. 2002.4.2; P.8771; P.8899; P.8982; P.9009.3; P.9079.7; P.9168.5; P.9462.21; P.9466.11-13]
Series of illustrated trade cards for F.T. Howell & Co.'s paper hanging establishment at 1216 Chestnut Street and later Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, bamboo, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak) and a witch with a broom in front of a full moon, witches flying on brooms in the distant background, snakes, rodents, an owl, and a castle atop a steep cliff. Includes geometric borders., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Theo. Leonhardt & Son and Craig Finley & Co., One print [1975.F.406] contains advertising text printed on verso: Antique drawings for the interior decoration of walls., 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 - Howell [1975.F.406a; 1975.F.412a & 1975.F.442]
