Series of illustrated trade cards depicting idyllic scenes surrounded by floral borders, including women playing stringed instruments; a couple holding a flower garland; a boy asleep and dreaming of an angel hovering over him with a cornucopia of flowers; two women, one holding a lyre, the other a triangle, sitting on a large shell in a lily pond. Business started in Philadelphia as Hummel, Bohler & Co. in 1850 and organized as a stock company under the name Weikel & Smith Spice Co. in 1867., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Weikel & Smith Spice Co.'s Bohsemeem trade mark., 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 - Weikel [1975.F.973-976]
