Portrait photograph showing two African American men, side-by-side, attired in suits, as well as top hats with advertising text for Charles S. Higgins Company soap. One hat reads "Try it" and the other reads "Higgins German Laundry soap is the best." One man holds a swagger stick and the other a walking cane, and both stand in front of a backdrop depicting a bucolic mountain scene. Charles S. Higgins Company, established by Higgins's father W. B. Higgins in Brooklyn in 1846, manufactured "German Laundry soap" beginning around 1860, when Charles assumed the business. The laundry soap was packaged in a wrapper illustrated with an African American woman washing in a tub. By the early 1890s Charles S. Higgins left the firm still operated under his name and formed Higgins Soap Company. Court proceedings over trademarks and tradenames ensued and Higgins Soap Company became insolvent by the mid 1890s., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on verso. Includes illustration of a paint palette., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation.
Creator
Block, B., photographer
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - group - advertisements - Higgins [P.2013.26]
Small circular with blue ink stamping., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list and testimonials for Charlton's unrivalled white linen copying book. Two copies., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 140 Oxford Street built between 1858 and 1868 in Kensington. Also shows light street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus. The business was established by William Hogg, Sr. in 1832. William Hogg, Jr. assumed sole operation in 1850., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.78c]
Advertisement depicting the manufactory and laboratory complex. Also shows crates lining the sidewalks and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon hauling crates and departing the complex. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel’s name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76a]
Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76b]
Advertisement depicting the multi-story storefront for cabinetmakers Allen & Bro. (Joseph and James C.) erected in 1860 at 1209 Chestnut Street. Also shows pedestrians looking at furniture visible in the large display windows. The building contained salesrooms on the lower floors and upholstery and finishing rooms on the upper ones. Allen & Bro. was originally established by William Allen in 1836. The business specialized in custom orders and exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Variant wood engraving published in I. L. Vansant, ed., The royal road to wealth (Philadelphia: Samuel Loag, (1869?)], opp. p. 43.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76c]
Advertisement depicting the factory and office at 1204 Frankford Avenue. Coaches line the street in front of the establishment and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Beckhaus was originally established as Beckhaus, Allgaier, and Petry in 1853. Beckhaus assumed sole operation about 1869., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76d]
City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23/24, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Creator
Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date
[1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b
City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
Creator
Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date
[1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b
Advertisement, possibly from a circular or verso of tradecard, containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront. Gentlemen talk at the entrances of the building as laborers load a horse-drawn dray` and cart, parked in the street. First two numbers of address depicted in reverse on store. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., Printer inferred from related tradecard. [P.9349.153f], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 295, Leonhardt operated from 114 S. 3rd Street 1867-1871.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153i]
Diamond-shaped advertisement with ornamental border containing a vignette-size, waist-length portrait of a young lady stroking her hands through her long tresses., Leonhardt operated from 114 So. 3rd Street circa 1868-1871., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 202, Gift of Margaret Robinson.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.46]
Advertisement depicting the one-block deep manufactory and "retail sales rooms" adorned in signage. Signs advertise "bread and crackers" for export and "All Kinds of Crackers, Soda Biscuits, Sugar Biscuit, Cakes &c &c. Pilot and Navy Bread." Barrels are visible in upper freight windows and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. During the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the company, renamed Walter G. Wilson & Co., introduced animal crackers to America. The building was razed by fire in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79b]
Advertisement depicting the manufactory at 20 South Delaware Avenue. Freight ramps are visible, and vessels sail on the Delaware River in the foreground. Edward P. and son Daniel Baugh formed Baugh & Sons in 1855 in Chester County. The plant relocated to Philadelphia in 1860. Daniel assumed operations of the business with branches in Baltimore and Norfolk, Va. in 1888., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.79a]
Advertisement depicting the "front view" and "rear view" of the four-story storefront of the liquor business originally established in 1793 by Philip Wager. Barrels are visible in the first floor and rear of the establishment. Signage adorns the buildings. Also includes pedestrian traffic, a laborer, and partial views of the adjoining businesses. William R. White and J. Henry Hentz, Jr. assumed the business in 1849 and erected the 222 building in 1860. The business operated from the location until 1918., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.96a]
Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
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]
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the dry goods store built by contractor John Ketcham. Patrons enter and several pedestrians, including women with parasols, walk in front of the store. Large draped mounds are visible in the display windows. Also shows the proprietors name and address etched in the frieze above the entryway as well as an "H" on an arched tablet adorning the roof., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 398, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 10th-11th
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5
Trade card for Moras, a German-born lithographer who established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s. Contains two vignettes separated and bordered by Gothic details, vinery, and scrolls. Vignettes show a lithographer and a lithograph printing room. Lithographic artist uses a hand rest and draws on stone from a sketch displayed on his sketch table. Printing room scene shows printers at work, including rolling ink on stones on hand-presses, checking proof prints, and moving stones. Also shows lithographic stones resting against a support column and the rooms adorned with wall lamps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 29, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Price list for sealing wax, wafers, and writing inks., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Sewn price list of French, English, and American stationery., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Advertisement for the calico printers showing a sepulchral monument composed of three mourning female figures attired in Roman garb beside a casket. The business, established in 1836 in the Falls of Schuylkill by William Simpson, was renamed William Simpson & Sons from "The Washington Print Works" in 1869. In 1877, the firm was incorporated as Eddystone Manufacturing Company., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1869 by W. Simpson & Sons in the Clerk's Office of the District of the East. District of Penna., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
1869
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.9e]
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]
Price list for envelopes with manuscript annotations., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Circular for inks and mucilage., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Two copies of circular for diaries., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Circular with manuscript and postage stamp., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Booklet for copying presses and letter copying brush., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Circular with red stamping., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list with manuscript notations for letter clips, boxes, pen racks, and desk weights. Address "54 Cedar" is crossed out and written over with "97 Cliff.", Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded price list for inks and mucilage., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Two copies of price list for inks and mucilage, one with manuscript notations., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded circular with manuscript., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Circular for books, paper, and inks., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded circular for books, printing, and lithography., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list for Johnson's buff tinted copying paper., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Sample sheet of paper with red printing., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded circular for diaries., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Large price list for diaries., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list for manufacturers' supplies and leather belting., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list for letter books and inks., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Circular for railroad profile drawing plates., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded circular for colored envelopes., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list with manuscript notations on decorative paper., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Folded price list for elastic rings, rulers, inkstands, and pencils., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Price list for mucilage, regialine glue, and photographic gum regialine, Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
