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Title: [Billheads from Omaha, Nebraska businesses issued to Dr. Charles L. Heizmann]
Description: Includes billhead dated October 18, 1873 from Aschmann, piano maker and organ builder for tuning, repairing and moving a piano, and billhead dated January 28, 1874 from C.H. Frederick, fashionable hatter for a $16.50 hat. Frederick billhead includes vignette depicting the head of a tiger., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.2011.10.122] annotated: & Schaller [crossed out]., 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., Charles L. Heizmann was a U.S. Army surgeon who participated in the 1873 U.S. expedition for military defenses in northwestern Wyoming.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.121 & 122]

Title: McLaughlin's XXXX Coffee [paper doll] Best quality coffee on the market
Description: Includes cut-out paper doll figure "8" depicting a tiger and separate die cut costume, probably from the Chicago coffee company's "Mr. and Mrs. Whimsical Wild Animal" series. Costume design is a pink, mutton sleeve dress, with gold sash, and gloved hands holding a closed fan. McLaughlin Coffee, established in 1852, introduced lines of promotional paper dolls following the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and their discontinuation of trade cards., Instructions printed on verso of P.2011.10.37: To make figure stand, bend right foot forwar[d] and tail and left foot backward, thus forming as stand., 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: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.37 & 37a]

Title: Life nothing without the Alden vinegar
Description: Trade card promoting Alden Fruit Vinegar and depicting a racist scene of a barefooted, African man and a tiger gaurding a barrel marked "The Alden Fruit Vinegar." In the right, the man looks toward the tiger and holds a spilling bucket in his hand as he runs away from the tiger. In the left, the tiger threateningly crouches and roars on a rock. The man carries a spear across his back and holds a shield. He is attired in red-striped shorts attahced to a red-striped sash over his left shoulder, and a headband adorned with two feathers. In the background are palm fronds and thick grass. Brothers John Tolman and Walter Alden founded Alden bro., later Alden Vinegar Company in St. Louis in 1878. The business expanded to Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. By 1907, the business collapsed., Title from item., Distributor's name on verso: For sale by L.H. Dillingham, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, Valparaiso, Ind., Advertising text printed on recto: Life nothing without the Alden vinegar., Advertising text printed on verso: The Alden Fruit Vinegar, unequalled for purity and excellence. The highest scientific authorities having analyzed, say: "It is a pure, wholesome vinegar produced by natural fermentation from fruits.", Text printed on the recto: [Bu]fford. Boston & New York., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Alden [P.2017.95.5]

Title: Africa. America
Description: Abolition print juxtaposing two female allegorical figures in chariots representing Africa and America. In front of a backdrop of tropical trees and huts, "Africa," depicted as a Black woman, is attired in a feathered headpiece, an orange shawl covering one breast, and a pink sarong. She holds a flag inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd in England 1806" and the reins of two lions pulling her chariot. In front of a waterfall, probably Niagara Falls, "America," depicted as a white woman, is dressed in Native American attire, including a feathered headpiece, a breast plate, an orange cape, a pink and blue sari, and an axe strapped to her back. She holds the American flag, decorated with a portrait of George Washington, and the reins of two tigers pulling her chariot. Near the wheels of her chariot, a rattlesnake is coiled., Title from item., Date inferred by content and medium., Name of publisher illegible., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1969, p. 56., Purchase 1969., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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.
Date: [ca. 1808]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC-Allegories [7812.F]

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