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Title: Sept. 1st, 1879, Great Play, Andre Fortier
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting bust portraits of actors who appeared in the play "Andre Fortier, the Hero of the Calaveras" at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in 1879, including E.J. Buckley in the title role., Title from advertising text printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Walnut [1975.F.319]

Title: Vienna pudding, G.W. Barlow, manufacturer, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a male server carrying pudding and spilling the tray as a dog runs under his feet. Another man, amused by the scene in front of him, carries a stack of plates and men and women seated at a dining table in the next room watch as the dessert spills., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Barlow's specialties", including Vienna pudding, English plum pudding, blanc mange, browned flour, and Piercy's purity flavoring extracts., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Vienna [1975.F.895]

Title: Sunday Grit
Description: Die-cut trade card depicting a newsboy holding a Sunday Morning, December 6, 1885 edition of the family newspaper published in Williamsport, Pa. Central illustration depicts bust portraits of newspaper founder Dietrick Lamade and editor George W. Rianhard. Newsboy wears winter attire, including a scarf, and is covered with snow. Grit was founded in 1882 as the Saturday edition of the "Daily Sun and Banner" before the name was bought by Dietrick Lamade circa 1885., Marks in pencil on verso., 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: [1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.183]

Title: Union Tea Co., No. 1735 North 10th Street, teas, coffees, & spices. Handsome & useful presents given away with tea and coffee
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford's Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Union [P.9802.14]

Title: [U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the Halladay Standard pumping and geared windmill and the Gem steel wind engine windmill. Includes vignettes of farm life, showing men loading hay onto a horse-drawn cart and a man and his dog herding cattle. The United States Wind Engine and Pump Co. was founded in Batavia, Illinois ca. 1863., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co.'s "Halladay Standard Wind Mill" and "Gem Steel Wind Engine"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - United States [P.9993.8 & 9]

Title: Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner--"I'll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I'll lick de hul firm." Compliments of J. Harley Compton, druggist, New Egypt, N.J
Description: Racist trade card promoting the druggist J. Harley Compton and depicting a caricature of an older African American man reading a notice on a country grocery store. Shows the man with a white beard and attired in a yellow brimmed hat, a long-sleeved red shirt, yellow pants with patches and held up by suspenders, and black shoes. He bends forward to read the sign on the boarded up, dilapidated store. It states in the vernacular that the Johnsing & Skinner Grocery is out of business and that, “Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me--dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing." The African American man is labeled as a creditor who says in the vernacular, “I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.” Another sign on the building states, "10 miles to de post ofice (sic)." In the right, the man’s donkey is tied to an orange post behind him. In the background, fenced in fields and trees are visible. William Carroll purchased J. Harley Compton’s drugstore in New Egypt, New Jersey in 1895., Title from item., Text printed on recto: Johnsing & Skinner Grocery. Notis—De firm of Johnsing & Skinner am resolved. Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me—dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing. Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner—“I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.”, Advertising text printed on verso promotes items manufactured by J. Harley Compton, including Compton's concentrated flavoring extracts, liquid rennet, camphor ice with glycerine, cholera and dysentery drops, and Compton's tooth powder. Dated Oct. 9th, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., 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. 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - C [P.9828.5679]

Title: The little bill poster
Description: Trade card showing a girl posting a "bill" advertising "Eskay's Albumenized Food for Infants and Invalids" on a wood fence. A satchel lies beside her on the ground. Eskay's food was a modified milk product., Publication date based on copyright statement "copyrighted 1896, S, K, & F. Co. Philadelphia.", Name of artist from several lines of advertising text printed on verso, including two testimonials and premium offer reading, "For three 50-cent wrappers, or their equivalent in value of other sizes, we will send free of all expense a copy of the handsome picture on the other side, in nine colors, size 16 x 25 inches, without any advertising upon it whatever. The original painting is one of the latest works of the celebrated artists, Ida Waugh, and is a handsome work of art. Full directions for mounting accompany each picture., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.17]

Title: Horsford's acid phosphate for mental & physical exhaustion, dyspepsia &c. It makes a delicious drink with water & sugar only. Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.I
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a baby seated in a chair holding a card inscribed "Prof. Horsford's acid phosphate". Includes a small silhouette printed on verso labeled "Count Rumsford". Rumford Chemical Works, established in 1854 by George F. Wilson and Eben Horsford, began manufacturing Horsford's acid phosphate ca. 1868., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Horsford's acid phosphate for dyspepsia, indigestion, headache, mental & physical exhaustion, nervousness, hysteria, and night sweats of consuption. Sold by Louis A. Bates, pharmacist, 739 Sixth Avenue, one door above 42nd Street, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Horsford's [1975.F.436]

Title: [Kennedy Bros. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds and a butterfly embellished by a geometric border; flowers in baskets; and portraits of women personifying a rose and a daisy by wearing large buds as hats. By the early 1880s, Kennedy Bros. was operated by Jacob and Harry Kennedy., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470] contain logo "J.H." printed on rectos. Most likely printed by Joseph Hoover., One print [1975.F.482] contains advertising text printed on verso: Fall opening, 1880. Kennedy & Bros., No. 1218 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, announce the opening of their importation of French millinery, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 28th & 29th., Five prints contain advertising text printed on versos: At Kennedy's new store, 1404 Chestnut Street may be found all the latest novelties in Paris millinery. Trimmed bonnets & round hats, feathers, ribbons, plushes, velvets, flowers, etc., etc., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880-1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kennedy [1975.F.444; 1975.F.469 & 470; 1975.F.472 & 473; 1975.F.482]

Title: Callowhill Street Bridge, Philadelphia, Pa A series of 25 bridges packing in Honest Long Cut
Description: Cigarette card promoting the Honest Long Cut brand of the American Tobacco Company. Depicts a view of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, also known as Spring Garden Street Bridge, built over the Schuylkill River from 1874-1875 by the Keystone Bridge Company after the designs of engineer Jacob H. Linville. Demolished in 1964. Bridge adorned with ornate ironwork, including lampposts and fencing., Title printed on recto and verso., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.34]

Title: Tally Ho. Alex. Kenney. 102 South Broad St., Philadelphia
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting anthropomorphic frogs smoking, playing leapfrog, and wearing a beret and holding a paddle., 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 - Kenney [1975.F.475-477; 1975.F.479]

Title: Miss E. Levy, 1018 Chestnut St., Phila. Umbrellas & parasols, leather goods, fans
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Miss E. Levy tucked into a spray of leaves., Copyrighted 1880 by Bufford, Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Levy [1975.F.485]

Title: [James S. Loag trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting business cards for James S. Loag tucked into flowers embellished with birds and butterflies. Also depicts two boys jumping over a wooden fence or obstacle course and a woman painting on the beach under an umbrella with a male companion leaning over her shoulder., Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford & Sons (Boston) and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Two prints [1975.F.502 & 504] contain advertising text printed on versos: James S. Loag, dealer in ribbons, hats & millinery goods, trimmed goods a specialty, No. 1230 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. A full assortment of kid and lisle thread gloves., 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 - Loag [1975.F.486; 1975.F.493-497; 1975.F.502-504]

Title: La. Berroth, stationery & fancy ornaments, No. 1212 Poplar St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers and a bird., 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 - Berroth [P.9802.8]

Title: J.A. Ladd & Son, booksellers and stationers. Holiday cards a specialty. 37 West Gay Street, West Chester, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a black cat with a pink ribbon tied into a bow around its neck., 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 - Ladd [P.9111.21]

Title: [Laird, Schober & Mitchell trade cards]
Description: Series of trade cards and caricatures promoting Laird, Schober & Mitchell and depicting clowns or harlequins. "I see nothing will suit but Laird, Schober & Mitchell's" depicts a white boy harlequin trying to fit a shoe on a seated white woman fairy with wings and a wand. "Too fine to Blacken!" is a racist trade card depicting a white boy clown kicking an African American shoe shine boy from behind. In the right, the white boy, attired white clown costume with a white cap decorated with a blue ball, a white shirt with ruffles at the neck and waist, white pants with a ruffle at the cuffs, white stockings, and blue shoes, carries a jump rope in both hands. He smiles at the viewer and kicks his left foot propelling the shoe shiner into the air. The shoe shiner is attired in a blue jacket with tails, white pants, black stockings, and brown shoes. His top hat, shoe shining stool, and open can of shoe polish fly away from him. "Oh! my!!..just look at them!!!" shows a white man admiring the shoes of a young, white woman who carries a butter churn. In the background are farm animals including a cow. "How beautifully they fit" depicts a white woman descending the stairs while grasping the hand of a white man, attired in a military uniform who carries a bouquet of flowers. Also a card depicting a white woman in a parlor holding up her skirt to reveal her new shoes, with the shoe box labeled, "Laird, Shober & Mitchell, Philadelphia" on the table. Laird, Schober & Mitchell's Shoes began operating in 1870 and was a partnership formed by Samuel S. Laird, George P. Schober and George A. Mitchell., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Four trade cards [1975.F.488-491] contain advertising text printed on versos: A request before purchasing shoes. Examine ours. Prices are now reduced and goods finest manufactured. Laird, Schober & Mitchell, 1133 Arch Street, Philad'a., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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 - Laird [1975.F.488-491; 1975.F.506]

Title: Seeds & bulbs, implements and tools for farm, garden and greenhouse, D. Landreth & Sons, 21 & 22 South Sixth St., Philad'a
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting flowers and fruit displayed on a table with an ornate urn and decanter. The seed company originally established in 1784 as David Landreth, was renamed David Landreth & Son in 1860., Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co., Boston., Advertising text printed on verso: The seed growing establishment of D. Landreth & Sons, (now comprising 1574 acres), first founded in 1784, and passing to three generations, has been conducted with the view of producing seeds of the very best and purest quality. We are therefore justified in assuring our customers that the seeds offered by us have no superior in this or any other country. Our stock of garden, field and flower seeds, agricultural implements, horticultural tools, requisites for garden and greenhouse, is very extensive and of first quality. No second quality goods for sale. Prices low. Catalogues free. D. Landreth & Sons, 21 and 23 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Landreth [P.2005.8]

Title: You cannot blot out...the fact that Louis Heilbron sells the best furniture, carpets, and bedding at most reasonable prices, at the largest furniture house in Reading, Pa. 838-840 Penn Street
Description: Advertisement blotter containing a genre scene showing a young girl pulling two boys, one holding an umbrella, in a wagon made from a crate., 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.2011.10.31]

Title: Large schooner yacht, "Henry Disston," Captain Conklin. Sloop Yacht, I. C. Covert," Captain Fisher
Description: Trade card contains vignette depicting a homestead view framed by pictorial details, including flowers and a blue bird., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.32]

Title: J. Kift & Son, florists, choice cut flowers and blooming plants. 1721 1/2 Chestnut St., Phila
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a tag or business card for J. Kift & Son (Joseph and Robert Kift) tucked into a sprig of roses., 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 - Kift [1975.F.478]

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: [C.J. Kino trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two boys with oversized tailoring instruments cutting and measuring fabric. Includes vignettes of front elevations of Kino's tailor shops on versos., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.465] contains advertising text and trademark on verso: C.J. Kino, tailor, 40 West Strand., One print [1975.F.466] contains advertising text and trademark on verso: C.J. Kino, tailor, 164 Fenchurch Street, City., 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 - Kino [1975.F.465 & 466]

Title: O. E. Kirchhoff, photographer. No. 527 & 529 Chestnut St., cor. 6th Crayons, oil paintings and photographs of live size. Old pictures copied and enlarged
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy or a girl riding on the back of a rabbit and holding up a sign reading "Lead, but never follow"., 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 - Kirchhoff [P.9836]

Title: D. Klein & Bro., clothiers, 1112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Branch store, 4327 Main St., Manayunk
Description: Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an art palette depicting a cat. D. Klein & Bro. was a partnership between David and Lewis Klein., Advertising text printed on verso: D. Klein & Bro., clothiers and merchant tailors, 1112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Branch store, 4327 Main Street, Manayunk., 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 - Klein [1975.F.481]

Title: Hartley Knight, carpets, 1222 Chestnut Street, Philada
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an ornate hand-held fan., Manuscript note on verso: Best red check 65 cts., 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 - Knight [1975.F.480]

Title: Compliments of Krell=French Piano Co. High grade piano makers, New Castle, Ind
Description: Die-cut trade card shaped as a flower promoting the firm in operation under the name Krell-French 1896-1905. Card adorned with separate die-cut butterfly., Distributor's stamp on verso: H.C. Wagner Co. Pianos. 3425 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia., 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. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.29]

Title: [Jones & Fisher trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Jones & Fisher, the mourning dry goods store operated by Chalkley L. Jones and Frederick F. Fisher at 918 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations entitled "Le roi Dagobert" and "M' de la Palisse" show children depicting Good King Dagobert and Jacques de la Palisse; men and women startled after observing their large, distorted reflections in mirrors and a crystal ball; a man and a woman attired in Medieval or Renaissance clothing; flowers; and a dog., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9669.2] copyrighted 1882 by G. Kahn., 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 - Jones [P.9669.1-11]

Title: Chr. Jud, fancy cake bakery, ice cream saloon and confectionery, 238 S. Eleventh, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Chr. Jud surrounded and embellished by flowering vines and cherubs., Manuscipt note on verso: M.H. Smith, 863 11th St., 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 - Jud [1975.F.456]

Title: Lavine, Hartford Chemical Works, 30 Union Place. Try Lavine for washing
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting boys and girls playing with sailboats in a wash tub. One boy paints "Lavine" on laundry hanging in the background. Title appears on two wooden boxes in the left foreground., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Geo. S. Adams, manufacturer's agent, No. 117 North Second Street, Philadelphia., Advertising text printed on verso: Lavine for washing. The best and cheapest article every offered to the housekeeper. Ask your grocer for it and take no other. It has taken the highest awards at the American Institute Fairs, in October, 1880 and 1881, as well as the First Premium at every state and county fair where exhibited. Do not pay 15 cents a pound for a washing compound, when you can buy a better one for 13 cents. Make sure that your grocer give you Lavine. It makes the hardest water soft and will not injure the finest clothes. It does not burn the hands nor chap them in winter. Try it for washing your marble steps, floors, sinks, milk pans, or anything which may need washing., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Lavine [1975.F.513]

Title: The Kensington. Jas. H. Rodgers, proprietor. Saratoga Springs, New York
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting sunflowers behind a banner displaying the title, a spray of flowers and a bird. James H. Rodgers constructed the Kensington Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1881 and sold it to Paul C. Grening in 1887., Advertising text printed on versos spans both cards. Describes amenities offered by The Kensington in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kensington [1975.F.474 & 1975.F.742]

Title: John W. Kevin, grocer, 237 S. Eighth St. below Locust, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a tag or business card for John W. Kevin tucked into a sprig of flowers., Printer's logo or initials printed on recto: T.H., 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 - Kevin [1975.F.484]

Title: [Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; and a boy fishing in a pond., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]

Title: Patapsco baking powder
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy with a fishing rod standing with a girl in front of a sign labeled "Patapsco baking powder". William P. Clotworthy of the Baltimore firm of Smith, Hanway & Co. invented and patented Patapsco baking powder., 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 - Patapsco [1975.F.670]

Title: Philadelphia lawn mowers at Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy pushing a lawn mower in the grass of the Sunken Gardens in the foreground and the southwest elevation of Horticultural Hall in the background. Also shows a fountain and a man guiding a horse-drawn mower. The exhibition hall was built in 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann in West Fairmount Park for the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Building demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Price list organized by lawn mower style printed on verso., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Engle, Buchner & Kramer, hardware, 22 Main Street, Dayton, Ohio., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.9748]

Title: Martha Washington. Printed by S. H. Greene & Sons. Riverpoint, R.I. Coffin, Altemus & Co. Sole agents
Description: Textile label for the textile print works founded in 1828 by Simon H. Greene and Edward Pike. Depicts Washington, in a sitting room, standing next to a table with knitting, and holding a letter reading "For the Soldiers at Valley Forge, George Washington." View also includes a window looking onto a winter scene and a framed portrait of George Washington. Label also contains an ornamental border. The firm, renamed S. H. Greene & Sons in 1865, were nationally known for their "Washington" line of printed textiles., Printed and stamped on recto: No. 48 2 Yds., Copyrighted in Washington, D.C., Lines drawn on recto., 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: c1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.108]

Title: Normandie
Description: Textile label showing a half-length portrait of a girl in traditional Normandy costume. She holds a small bouquet of flowers to her chin., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 17491-2. Yds. 41 2., Inscribed on recto: U 1/2/10., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.109]

Title: John W. Pechin & Bro. Manufacturers of pure oak leather belting, worsted aprons, lace & picker leather. 228 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Price list for oak leather belting per running foot printed on verso in two columns., Distributor's stamp appears twice on verso: Address orders to Henry Tolman, engineers & general supplies, 228 Arch St., Philad'a, Penna., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pechin [P.2006.20.34]

Title: Miss. M. Peebles, fine millinery, 2816 Germantown Ave., Phila Our motto: quick sales and small profits
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the profile of a well-dressed woman holding up and inspecting a plumed hat. Maggie M. Peebles immigrated to the United States in 1886 and set up a millinery shop at 2930 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia in 1894 before relocating to 2816 Germantown Avenue in 1897., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Wright., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Peebles [P.9440.1]

Title: H.M.S. Pinafore, for the benefit of the Penna. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Friday afternoon, April 25, 1879
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting three putti standing and sitting near potted plants, flowers, and vines. The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was organized in November 1876 and chartered in January 1877., Advertising text on verso printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the benefit performance of Sullivan & Gilbert's comic opera "Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore" and includes a list of characters and actors., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator: L. Prang & Co.
Date: c1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [1975.F.349]

Title: The People's Opera Company 10 & 20 cts
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting a well-dressed couple recreating at a lake, including a man in a rowboat and a partial view of a boathouse. Two swans swim in the water nearby., Advertising text printed on verso: Opera house, commencing Monday evening, March 30th, 1885, the People's Opera Company! From the Arch Street Opera House, Philadelphia, will produce a popular repertoire of operas, magnificent scenery, costumes, chorus and orchestra. Popular prices. 10 and 20 cents admission. 10 cents extra for reserved seats., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - People's [P.9785]

Title: Twelve good reasons why the Woman's Suffrage Stove Polish is preferred to all others
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a seated portrait of a girl with her arms propped on and crossed on the back of the chair., Title supplied by cataloger from advertising text printed on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Edith from Abbie., 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 - Woman's [P.9990]

Title: International Exhibition. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Stock trade card for lithographer Potsdamer & Co. depicting buildings constructed for the International Exhibition in 1876. Includes the Main Building, Art Gallery, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Agricultural Hall as postcards displayed in a montage on a silver platter. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Advertising text printed on verso: Fall, 1875. F.K. Womrath, will open, October 1st, his usual full assortment of Ladies' Fine Furs. F.K. Womrath, 710 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Seal skin sacques and furs a specialty., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Potsdamer & Co. operated from the mid 1870s until Ketterlinus acquired the firm in 1885.
Creator: Potsdamer & Co.
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Womrath [1975.F.1003]

Title: C.R. Woodward, 305 South 13th Street, Philadelphia Hosiery, gloves, staple trimmings, knit goods, dress linings, stationery, &c
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a male figure attired in a tattered smock and strappy sandals holding a staff in his left hand and a piece of fruit extended in his right hand., 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 cards - Woodward [1975.F.1007a]

Title: [E.H. Worne's lace and embroidery store trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a woman's left hand hold and displaying a bunch of roses and a boy hanging from a tree limb, lowering a bowl into a girl's hands near a stone wall with a sign reading "No trespassing"., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes E.H. Worne's laces, embroideries and white goods store, established in 1850, at 38 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia., 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 - Worne [1975.F.984 & 1975.F.1001]

Title: E.A. Yarnall, successor to P. Madeira, choice cutlery, &c. 115 S. 10th St., Philad'a Instruments to assist the hearing a specialty
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Edwin A. Yarnall, successor to Pugh Madeira, depicting a man and a woman standing next to sprays of flowers surrounding large scrolls bearing the title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Yarnall [1975.F.1012 & 1975.F.1015]

Title: [S. Zugsmith's trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting Horticultural Hall, designed by Henry Schwarzmann, and Machinery Hall, designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson, for the Centennial Exhibition, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes French clocks at $15.00 to $250.00 a set and an auction of $250,000 worth of French clocks and music boxes at S. Zugsmith's, No. 929 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Zugsmith [1975.F.431 & 1975.F.1042]

Title: [Frederick Brown's Ginger trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards labeled "Cherry Unripe" depicting a woman with a pained look on her face clutching her stomach and "Cherry Ripe" showing a content, pretty woman. Advertises Genuine Brown's Ginger for cramps and colics, stomach-ache, stomache disorders, and indigestion in banners above and below the "Cherry Unripe" illustration., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Brown's Ginger product for family medicine purposes, for "the dyspeptic, and to those who are predisposed to gout or rheumatic affections...and to the inebriate who wishes to reform." Also promotes Brown's Ginger in the fall for comfort from the "first cool chilliness", the winter for the skin "to act well" and in the spring "to add to your back-bone, and make you take interest in life"., 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 - Brown [1975.F.79 & 80]

Title: [Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting alternate views of family life with and without a Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine. One print, entitled "Willcox & Gibbs new automatic. A home blessing", shows a mother using Willcox & Gibbs "new automatic" sewing machine and observing her content family relaxing in their parlor. The other print, entitled "Noisy, hard running, double thread. A distressing nuisance", shows the same mother using a different sewing machine and observing chaos in her home as her husband opens the door to flee the scene, two girls fight over their toys, an infant wails in a bassinet, and the dog and cat fight., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Willcox & Gibbs "new automatic" sewing machine as the perfect, "no tension" machine and the cheapest in the world., 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 - Willcox [1975.F.903 & 904]

Title: [Willett & Quinby trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Willett & Quinby at 416 North Second Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a child painting the face of the figure from a jack-in-the-box and an idyllic scene showing a flowering plant and rustic church in a field., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [P.9642.6] contains advertising text printed on verso by Coward & Co. prs., 123 N. Third St. Phila., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Willett & Quinby's coffee as the "favorite" coffee and "the best blended coffee"., 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 - Willett [P.9636.4 & P.9642.6]

Title: Wilson & McCallay's Happy Thought. Wave line plug tobacco
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of a sailor wearing a "Commissary U.S.N." hat smiling and posing with a box of tobacco., 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 - Wilson [1975.F.1004]

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