Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., 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 - London [1975.F.500]
Trade card die cut and shaped into a pipe thread. Pancoast & Maule was formed by Henry B. Pancoast and Francis I. Maule in Philadelphia., List of available tubes, pipes, radiators, gauges, tools and supplies printed in two columns on verso., 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 - Pancoast [P.9788]
Illustrated trade card depicting metal hardware flanking the title., Title annotated to No. 228 Arch Street from No. 116 Arch Street., Manuscript note on verso: Office hours 12 to 26c., 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 - Tolman [P.2006.20.63]
Illustrated trade card depicting ruins and overgrown grass., Title supplied by cataloger., List of artists printed on verso in three columns., 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 - Misc [1975.F.407b]
Illustrated trade card depicting an older man raising a full mug of beer and toasting to his health., Advertising text printed on verso: Headquarters for holiday goods will be at L.H. Rogers, no. 17 DeKalb St., 3 doors ab. Main St., Norristown, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of John H. Serembus., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rogers [P.2005.30.2]
Robert Reid relocated his machinist shop to 71 East Laurel Street in 1886., Manuscript note written diagonally across recto: Removed to 71 East Laurel St., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Craig, Finley & Co., the partnership between William Craig, James G. Finley and James Ferguson, Jr., relocated to 1018/1020 Arch Street in 1875.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Reid [P.2006.20.36]
Title in brackets annotated. Address printed as: 28 South Fourth St., below Market., 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 - Waldmayer [P.2006.20.11]
Illustration on recto depicts a bird's eye view of Lauber's restaurant on the Centennial grounds in West Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Includes pedestrians and horse-drawn coaches in the foreground. The Cenntenial, held in 1876, celebrated America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and showcased the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art., Left vignette on verso shows three buildings comprising the Philip J. Lauber liquor and restaurant business at 24-26 South Fifth Street. The buildings, adorned with signage, include left to right: "Ph. Lauber Beer & Ale"; "Ph. Lauber Importer of Wines"; and "Ph. Lauber Restaurant" (partial view). Image also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Men congregate at the doorway of the wine shop at which a horse-drawn cart loaded with wine barrels departs. A carriage, horse-drawn dray, men on horseback, and pedestrians travel in the street. Lauber added a restaurant to his business on Fifth Street circa 1877. Right vignette on verso depicts cherubs eating grapes and drinking bottles of wine on a mantelpiece surrounded by vinery and greenery., 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 - Lauber [5758.F.11c]
Illustrated trade card depicting rolling wood matting on the floor bordering an ornate bar., Advertising text printed on verso: J. Kile & Co. 450 N. Twelfth St., Philadelphia. Wood turning, sawing, planing and cabinet mill, hotel, saloon, store & office fixtures, bars, bar rails, foot rests, counters, tables, beer backs, shelving, &c. Tile floors, plumbing, mirror plates, &c., furnished. Newel posts, balusters, hand rails, mouldings, &c. J. Cross, manager., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kile [P.2006.20.32]
View of "Bridge at Centennial grounds, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia" depicting pedestrians promenading and horse-drawn carriages and coaches traveling along the 210-foot iron bridge in the foreground and Horticultural Hall, designed by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, in the background. The Cenntenial, held in 1876, celebrated America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and showcased the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art., View of "Bridge at Fremont, Ohio, built for Ohio State Board of Public Works" depicting pedestrians walking and horse-drawn carriages and drays traveling the State Street Bridge (built in 1878) crossing the Sandusky River in Fremont, Ohio. Includes buildings on the banks of the river flanking the bridge in the background., Advertising text printed on recto: Manufacturers of Z. Kings, patent tubular arch bridge and all kinds of wrought iron bridges., Advertising text printed on verso: Manufacturers of arch bridges, truss bridges, swing bridges, turntables, jail cells and all kinds of wrought iron bridges., Distributor's name and address annotated on recto and verso from "Chas. E. King, agent, 79 Water Street, Boston, Mass." to "Chas. E. King, ag't, Wakefield, Mass.", 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. 1878]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - King [P.2002.9.1]
Illustrated trade card depicting an elephant on recto and verso. James S. Kirk & Co., the manufacturers of Kirk's blue India soap, relocated to Chicago, Illinois from Utica, New York in 1859., Trimmed down to shape of elephant and grass., 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. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kirk's [P.9993.1]
Price list for leather belting printed in two columns on verso., 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 - Perkins [P.2006.20.35]
Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an eye depicts a traveling R. Newell & Son horse-drawn photographic wagon. The scene is bordered by a sun, filigree, and a camera on a tripod. R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell., 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 - Newell [P.9803.1]
Names of coal mines are underlined in red ink and flank the central word "Coal": Jeddo, Highland, Spring Mount'n, Spring Brook, Packer, Continental, Logan, Centralia, Council Ridge, Middle Lehigh, Hazle Brook, and Wyoming Collieries., Stamped in purple ink on recto: F. Jay St. John., 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 - Newton [P.2006.20.30]
Advertisement printed on verso in German., 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 - Nittinger [P.9849]
Illustrated trade card depicting a couple attired in fancy clothes adorned with flowers. The man holds a staff decorated with a ribbon in his left 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 card - Eureka [1975.F.849]
Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Price list template ("Present prices per ton") printed on verso for various kinds of Lehigh, Schuylkill and Bituminous coal., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., Digitized., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Still [P.9939]
Manuscript note on verso: Benjamin F. Skeen, no. 3651 Market St., fireman, Baldwin's boiler., 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 - Eagle [P.2006.20.8]
Illustrated trade card for L. Hönig's toy store containing imagery from the Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale. Depicts a giant with a long beard holding a purse inscribed, "Kauf bei mir gibs billig dir". Various toys lay at his feet, including a drum, dollhouse, ship, pocketwatch, horse, puppets, flags and toy soldiers. Also contains an ornate pictorial detail reading, "25 Centralhof. Fraumünsterseite"., Text printed on verso: Ich gratulire zum neuen Iahr. Translated: [Happy New Year], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator
Hörner, H., artist
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hönig [1975.F.415]
Illustrated trade card depicting a peacock perched on a thin tree branch. Daniel S. White, Jr. purchased The Traymore from M.E. Hoopes in 1886., Advertising text for the Traymore Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey printed on verso: The Traymore, having been re-painted and being furnished in the best modern style throughout, with thorough light and ventilation (requisite in summer houses), with use of elevator for invalids, and owing to arrangements, that have been perfected, have secured the services of the most efficient and experienced assistants in the various departments, and being determined to use all my energy and ability, anticipate exceeding its past excellence, which the liberal patronage it has received attests. Very respectfully, M.E. Hoopes., 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 - Hoopes [1975.F.410]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a diploma labeled "Medal and diploma awarded at Centennial, Phila., 1876" and other cards bound together on a ring. Also includes florets and geometric shapes as border and decorative elements on cards., One print [1975.F.1037] engraved & copyrighted by J.A. Lowell & Co. Boston 1878. 2., Advertising text promoting Glendinning & Truitt's English hunting crops, walking canes, driving whips, and riding whips printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1878]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Glendinning [1975.F.348 & 1975.F.1037]
List of F.O. Goodwin's patrons printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Goodwin [P.2006.20.15]
Stamped on verso: International Electrical Exhibition Building, 32nd & Market Sts., 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 - Saunders [P.2006.20.42]
Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait painting displayed on an easel of a child seated and posed with a pen and a piece of paper. A large painting palette with paint brushes running through the finger hole rests in front of the painting in the lower right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Chillman [P.9821]
Racist trade card depicting an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature and attired in a torn hat and shirt, on the ground with baby chicks in front of him. In the left, a white woman with a pitchfork leans over a fence to observe the scene and surprises him. Durant & Oehlmann, the partnership between Dr. Joseph F. Durant (b. 1831) and Charles Oehlmann (1849-1921), operated in Quincy, Illinois between 1875 and 1888., Title from item., Date inferred from date of operation of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Falke's Sulpholine Cream and Falke's Kah-Kan-Kee Hair Restorative manufactured by J. Falke & Co., 418 Elm St., St. Louis., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - D [P.9828.5810]
Series of illustrated trade cards depicting nails and spikes that form a border around the business name. Bulkley & Noblit founded the Tioga Rolling Mill at Seventeenth and Clearfield Streets in 1873., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Margaret Robinson., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bulkley & Noblit [P.9349.315; P.9349.358]
Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of a foot., 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 - Burdict [P.2006.20.21]
Title annotated. Originally printed as 3004 Market Street and crossed out., 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 - Blackson [P.2006.20.27]
Manuscript note in ink on verso: A.J. Holt, Manuscript note in pencil on verso: J. Potter, treas. Bush Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Boekel [P.2006.20.28]
Trade card illustration for E.C. Abbey, M.D., showing a bucolic scene with two sheep resting under a tree near a rustic fence in the foreground. Shows pasture for livestock and a mountain in the background., Copyrighted 1877 by E.C. Abbey, M.D., Advertising text printed on verso for instructive book, "The Sexual System and it's Derangements," and products sold by Dr. E.C. Abbey, Buffalo, N.Y. Also advises the observer to find "20 boys which the picture contains" and the "ghost of the valley"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David and Trish Long in honor of Jenny Ambrose., Digitized.
Date
c1877
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Abbey [P.2009.10.2-3]
Trade card die cut and shaped into a circle with gilt text and decorative floral border. Owned and operated by New York native George Gay., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gay's [1975.F.346]
Illustrated trade card depicting Asian decorative motifs, including bamboo, a crane, and a fan. In the left a dragonfly flies over a stalk of bamboo. In the center is a large Asian character, possibly meant to be Chinese, surrounded by a geometric border. In ther right, a crane stands on one leg among reeds and a hand-held fan is spread open., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on medium and content., 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 - Misc [1975.F.1034]
Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York)., One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c.", 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 - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]
Series of illustrated trade cards promoting jewelers Morgan & Headly in the Mutual Life Building at the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Trade card depicts a large diamond jewel [1975.F.579]. Illustrated trade card depicts a caricaturized Japanese woman and boy playing a horn. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and decorated with kanzashi (decorative hair ornaments) and attired in a floral patterned kimono, stands before a Japanese-style building. She leans her left arm over a wall and looks down at a boy, wearing a shaved head with a small ponytail and attired in a tunic, a belt, pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes, playing a horn next to a bird with its beak open [1975.F.592]. Trade card depicting a Japanese-stylized scene of a crane bending over and cleaning its feathers with its beak. Also includes flowering tree branches [1975.F.593]., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and history of the advertised business., One print [1975.F.579] contains vignette printed on verso depicting a hand-held fan superimposed onto a ribbon., RVCDC, 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 - Morgan [1975.F.579; 1975.F.592 & 593]
Series of illustrated trade cards containing "Fishing" showing a white man and woman couple fishing in a rowboat with a pet dog that has its head in their picnic basket; "Caught on the fly" depicting a white man attached to the hook of his own fishing rod as he stands next to a stream; "We met by chance, or waiting for the swell" showing a white man floating on a wave in the ocean and colliding with a white woman as she stands in the ocean near other white women and children; "What are the wild waves saying sister?" depicting a boy, attired in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat, standing next to his sister, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, looking out at the ocean with their backs to the viewer; "Oh, come and see us" showing a group of white children standing in a pond jeering at an older, white man who stands on dry land in the foreground; and "Scoot, brother scoot!" depicting an African American boy and girl holding hands and scurrying from the approaching waves of the ocean. Leavenworth & Dikeman, the partnership between Elisha Leavenworth and Nathan Dikeman, operated in Waterbury, Connecticut between 1850-1890., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Four prints [P.9828.7033-7036] printed by Phoenix Card Co., N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7031-7036]
Series of illustrated trade cards for F.T. Howell & Co.'s paper hanging establishment at 1216 Chestnut Street and later Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, bamboo, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak) and a witch with a broom in front of a full moon, witches flying on brooms in the distant background, snakes, rodents, an owl, and a castle atop a steep cliff. Includes geometric borders., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Theo. Leonhardt & Son and Craig Finley & Co., One print [1975.F.406] contains advertising text printed on verso: Antique drawings for the interior decoration of walls., 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 - Howell [1975.F.406a; 1975.F.412a & 1975.F.442]
Series of illustrated trade cards for Dell & Joseph C. Noblit & Co., importers and manufacturers of furniture covers and curtain materials, established in 1849. Illustrations depict a shield, laurel wreath and monogrammed "N"; an interior window dressed with drapes; and a spray of daisies, leaves and twigs entitled "Easter Greeting"., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Matthews & Co., 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 - Noblit [1975.F.223; 1975.F.253; 1975.F.260]
Full-length portrait of British actress Victoria Vokes standing and leaning on a chair. Vokes was one of five siblings popular in pantomime theatres in London in the 1870s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Miscellaneous - Vokes [1975.F.886a]
Illustrated trade cards with vignettes on rectos and versos depicting a roller skate, shaving knife, utensils, and an array of knives and tools. Also shows an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders aiming a revolver., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include the Charles A. Dixon Printing House (Philadelphia) and Rowley & Chew (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes products manufactured, imported and repaired by Charles Herder at 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, including roller skates, ice skates, shears and scissors, razors, table cutlery, pocket cutlery, and carving and pen knives. The business of Charles Herder began in 1847 as Clarenbach & Herder, changed to L. Herder & Son in 1871 and by 1879, the style changed to Charles Herder., 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 - Herder [1975.F.434 & 435; 1975.F.410a]
Series of illustrated trade cards die cut and shaped into gloves., Prints printed in black ink on pink paper., Advertising text printed on versos promoting fine French kid gloves and ladies' and gentlemen's kid, buckskin and dogskin gloves and gauntlets., 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 - Field [1975.F.320 & 321]