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Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "Floral Cards" and price information. The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Illegible manuscript notes on recto and verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 26, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern - verso

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "Floral Cards" and price information. The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Illegible manuscript notes on recto and verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 26, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern - verso

Title: Graf Brothers, lithographers, 125 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Tradecard depicting an Autumn genre scene with a girl and a pug dog. The girl, attired in a bonnet and dress with a large bow in the back, holds a stick over her shoulder and watches pine cones fall from a tree. Her dog watches from behind. Verso contains advertising text promoting "Graf & Brother, Practical Lithographers, Engravers and Printers, South-East Corner Fourth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia Pa." Products include bonds, certificates, notes, checks, billheads, diplomas, maps, views, show-cards, architectural drawings, businesss cards, and chromo cards, the "Best Thing For Advertising Medium Extant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 37, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - G
Creator: Graf & Brother
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - G

Title: Fall & winter 1882-83. Potsdamer & Co. General lithographers & printers, publishers of lithographic advertising specialties, 243 & 245 South Third Street
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia lithography firm depicting an elf playing a flute while seated on a tree branch of cherry blossoms. The elf wears a cone-shaped hat and boots with ribbons. Verso contains advertising text promoting the firm's circulars that are printed on their "celebrated folds," with which the tradecard had accompanied. Text also promotes the efficiency and "excellent" execution of the firm in their "designs for Cards, Bill, Letter and Note Heads, Etc.", Not in Wainwright., Printed lower right corner: 1200., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 30, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - P
Creator: Potsdamer & Co.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - P, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - P - verso

Title: Fall & winter 1882-83. Potsdamer & Co. General lithographers & printers, publishers of lithographic advertising specialties, 243 & 245 South Third Street
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia lithography firm depicting an elf playing a flute while seated on a tree branch of cherry blossoms. The elf wears a cone-shaped hat and boots with ribbons. Verso contains advertising text promoting the firm's circulars that are printed on their "celebrated folds," with which the tradecard had accompanied. Text also promotes the efficiency and "excellent" execution of the firm in their "designs for Cards, Bill, Letter and Note Heads, Etc.", Not in Wainwright., Printed lower right corner: 1200., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 30, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - P
Creator: Potsdamer & Co.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - P, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - P - verso

Title: Peter Schemm & Son. Brewery, 25th & Poplar sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the brewery complex operated as Peter Schemm & Son 1887-1908 that was originally built in 1855 and expanded between 1885 and 1887. The depicted red brick buildings include the brew house, storerooms, office building, and carriage house. The roofs are adorned with a cupola, smoke stacks, an American flag, and a weather vane. One building also contains a date marker (1885). Pedestrians, including boys in baseball uniforms and a family, walk in front of the brewery. Workers convene near the entrance and handle horses at and depart with drays and wagons at driveways and cartways of the complex. A laborer pushes a handcart past several large barrels lining the sidewalk near an idle truck and a man on horseback riding in the street. A Schemm delivery wagon loaded with barrels drives past the brewery on Poplar Street across from street cars approaching and departing from the adjacent block, West College Avenue. At the opposite corner, pedestrians walk past a curved brick wall behind which a tree stands and a couple in the street wave to a male passenger at the front of the approaching street car. Neighboring buildings are visible in the background. Also contains an inset titled “City Office, 238 Race St.” showing a patron entering the building with signage advertising “Office of Schemm’s Brewery” and “C.A. Widmayer.” Barrels are piled on the sidewalk across from a man talking to another man in a militia uniform. Pictorial elements in the upper right and lower left include a full beer mug, a Schemm’s Standard Lager beer bottle, twigs of barley and hops, and a banner reading “Lager Beer” (right) and a beer cask marked “P. Schemm & Son Brewers” (left)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 171, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 31 S 323
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1887]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 31 S 323

Title: T. Sinclair & Son. Lithographic establishment. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1883 containing a genre scene showing children walking down a path in the woods. The boy and girl walk arm in arm. The boy holds a branch in his free hand. The girl wears a cape with bonnet-like hood and the boy wears a vest. Calendar forms side borders. Thomas Sinclair & Son operated as a partnership 1870-1889., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 93, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - Scrapbook [Wf. 98 vol. 1], LCP holds copy trimmed to image. **Tradecards - S [8173.F].
Creator: T. Sinclair & Son
Date: 1883
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - Scrapbook [Wf. 98 vol. 1]

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia. Bookmarker
Description: Bookmark advertisement for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "bookmarker" and price information for lots of 500, 1000, and 5000. Text promotes the "advertising medium" as valuable in addition to their usefulness will "insure their being preserved." The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 27, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker - verso

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia. Bookmarker
Description: Bookmark advertisement for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "bookmarker" and price information for lots of 500, 1000, and 5000. Text promotes the "advertising medium" as valuable in addition to their usefulness will "insure their being preserved." The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 27, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker - verso

Title: Grounds and club-house of the Belmont Cricket Club, at Elmwood 58th St. and Darby Road Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view showing the grounds of the club founded in 1874 in West Philadelphia. In the center of the fenced-in grounds, members engage in a cricket match in front of the club house and an auxiliary building. Clusters of spectators watch the match and arrive by foot, coach, wagon, and bicycle. In the left, a bowler practices his throw in a netted area. In the background, people engage in matches on a series of tennis courts separated from the cricket field by a row of trees. Trees, a red brick building, dirt roads, and pastures surround the grounds. A horse-drawn buggy and street car travel around the club and a locomotive passes nearby. Also contains insets showing the "Field View of the Club House" and a "Lawn Tennis" doubles match. Belmont, one of the four chief Philadelphia cricket clubs, disbanded in 1914., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 101, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 B 451, Inscribed on verso: E. R. Jones 3-14-1913.
Creator: Kurtz, Horatio I.
Date: [1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 03 B 451

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