Circular containing eight pages of text bound into a pamphlet using binding tags. Text details who should purchase the tags, including orchestras, bands, musical societies, choirs, editors, authors, teachers, ministers, druggists and physicians; how to adhere them by "rubbing them down with the thumbnail or something hard"; and other products sold by Heyl, including "extensible portfolios for music" and "firm back postfolios especially adopted to the new method of binding.", Title from front and back covers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Heyl [P.2006.20.2]
Illustrated "hidden puzzle" trade card depicting a winter scene showing a small building with a large flag inscribed "Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila." Includes bare, broken trees and boulders in the foreground in which the figures of a hunter and at least two rabbits are "hidden." Jacob Shaffer was a propietor of a varieties and notions store during the 1860s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shaffer [P.9582.85]
Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.69]
Advertisement containing pictorial details depicting sprigs from a raspberry bush with raspberries at different stages of ripeness., Inscribed lower left corner: 131., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.76a]
Advertisement calendar for the year 1870 containing a whimsical tromp l'oeil design composed of ornate carpets and rugs. Rolled and partially rolled carpets surround the calendar and advertising text. Two rugs adorn the lower corners. Patterns and scenes decorating the floor coverings include flowers, cherubs, vinery, geometric shapes and scenes showing a hunted elephant and a lounging dog. Pray, Sons & Co. was established in 1817., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.96]
Rooftop view looking east showing men standing on rubble and ruins, formerly the bonded warehouse complex of William C. Patterson & Co. built in 1854 at Front and Lombard Streets, after a fire on August 4, 1869 destroyed thousands of barrels of whiskey stored there. Intact row houses facing Penn Street are visible in the background, including the rear of Denison, Kelly & Co. at 424 South Delaware Avenue (i.e. 425 South Penn Street). The bare masts of a ship on the Delaware River are also visible in the right background., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertisement printed on verso: Richmond & Co. first-class furniture, warerooms, 45 South Second St., Philadelphia., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Fires and firefighting [P.9742]
Promotional stereograph depicting the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868. Shows a crowd of men and women, including two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, posing in front of the pavilion. In the foreground, a coach is parked., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content and the people's attire., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label posted on verso promoting Young's Favorite Blue Grass Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop, Acker, Merrall & Condit, and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9774.2]
Promotional stereograph depicting the Roman Doric two-story stone building gateway near Ridge Road designed by Philadelphia architect John Notman., Title supplied by cataloguer., Buff mount with rounded corners., Contains label pasted on verso advertising Young's Favorite Blue Grass Pure Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop Acker, Merrall & Condit and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.9774.1]
Collection of loose prints from a specimen album probably compiled by a printer once associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm Stein and Jones. Contains chromolithographic art supplements and advertising specimens; proof sheets; checks, bank notes billheads, and receipts; trade cards and labels; vignette specimens; proof sheets; and illustrations. Businesses and trades represented include banks, manufacturers, and the textile industry. Collection also includes a proof of a trade catalog for gas pipe fittings; job work, including an 1877 broadside for an "Assessor's Registry of Voters" of a Philadelphia ward; an advertising print for the Walnut Street House (Cincinnati, Oh.); and a sheet music cover containing a landscape view., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Simeon Boerum; Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.; Geo. S. Harris & Sons; J. Ottmann; and Wm. F. Murphy Sons., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1860-ca. 1898]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9349.275-472]
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