Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]
Advertisement depicting a woman shopkeeper showing a hat to a woman and two girls near a hat display., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - L [(7)1322.F.471x]
Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Charles Oakford. Filigree surrounds the oval-shaped portrait. Charles Oakford established his hat store in 1827 and relocated to the Continental Hotel in 1860., Manuscript list on verso includes dates and prices: Nov. 22/60: $8.33; Jan. 10/61 due 21st; Jan. 28/61: due 21st [?]; March 1/61: due 21st Feb.; March 28/61: [illegible]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator
Steel, James W., 1799-1879, engraver
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Oakford [(7)1322.F.443l]
Advertisement containing 18 red, white, and blue specimens of corps badges for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Divisions of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, and 12th Corps. Also contains a decorative border and advertising text promoting new designs and bargain presentation swords., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11x14 - Advertisements - H [(2)5786.F.1a]