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Title: Stokes Brothers, lumber dealers, 30th Street below Chestnut, Philadelphia Thos. P.C. Stokes. John Airey
Description: Manuscript note on recto: Phone 112 W.P., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Stokes [P.2006.20.37]

Title: J.T. Moore, wholesale dealer & manufacturer's agent, wooden-ware, baskets, brooms, brushes, twine, cordage, &c. No. 235 South Front Street, Philadelphia
Description: Manuscript numbers on verso, including No. 356, No. 1., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Moore [P.2004.36.5]

Title: The Buick & Sherwood Mfg Co., manufacturers & dealers in sanitary specialties. Detroit, Mich
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a vignette bird's eye view showing the plumbing fixtures manufactory at "Cor. Champlain St. & Meldrum Ave."Street and pedestrian traffic, including a streetcar are visible in the foreground. Trains and surrounding cityscape are visible in the background. Buick & Sherwood was established circa 1884 with partners D.D. Buick and William Sherwood. The firm invented several plumbing innovations by the late 1880s and in 1899 was sold to Sanitary Manufacturing Company., Title from printed return address., Addressed in type to: Messrs. J.D. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., Date inferred from ink-stamped postmark: Detroit, MI., Aug 22, [18]95 6 PM., Contains cancelled oval two-cents stamp printed in green and containing a profile portrait of George Washington., Printed upper left corner: In 5 Days Return To., Contains on verso: ink-stamp postmark: received Philadelphia, PA, Aug 24, 1895 5AM., 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 - Envelopes [P.2011.10.74]

Title: Reading's Sesqui-Centennial, Reading, Pa. Jubilee Week June 5th to 12th, 1898. 150th Anniverary
Description: Pictorial envelope designed by Sesqui-centennial committee members Samuel Dilbert, W. Morris Deischer and Howard L. Boas containing a menagerie of imagery bordering two vignettes. Vignettes depict a view of the Reading "Court House, 1782-1841" and a view captioned "1748" showing Native Americans near a teepee watching a traveling Conestoga wagon from across a river. Other images show a locomotive, factories, train shed, and a winged female allegorical figure holding a trumpet and bolt of lightning, probably representing progress. An anvil, gear, and angle rest at the figure's feet. Over 700, 000 envelopes were printed and distributed nationally. The sesqui-centennial celebration included band concerts; civic, firemen, and industrial parades; grand illuminations; fireworks; and an equestrian and bicycle day., Addressed in manuscript to: Ronalds & Johnson Co., 139 N. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa., Printed in red ink on recto: Return to E. S. Summons' Plumbing & Heating Co., 209 N. 6th St., Reading, Pa., Ink-stamp postmark on verso: Received Philadelphia, PA Mar 31, 1898 6 30 PM., Publication information from Morton Luther Montgomery, History of Reading, Pennsylvania: and the anniversary proceedings of the sesquice-centennial, June 5-12, 1898 (1898)., 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: [c1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.89]

Title: [Billheads of L. N. Brunswig, exporter, importer and wholesale druggist, New Orleans, La.]
Description: Includes billheads titled "Bought of L.N. Brunswig, Exporter, Importer, Wholesale Druggist" and "L.N. Brunswig, Successor to Finlay & Brunswig, Exporter, Importer, Wholessale Druggist, 215-217-219-221 & 223 Tchoupitoulas & 401-403-405-407-411 Gravier Sts." Prints contain ornamented lettering surrounded by cloud-like details and an exterior view of the firm's "New York Office, 30 Platt St." View also shows crates lining the sidewalk, and street and pedestrian traffic, including several horse-drawn carts and wagons. Also contain terms of liability and the text "Shipped for your a/c and Risk per..." L.N. Brunswig, entered into the partnership Finlay & Brunswig in 1882, which L.N. Brunswig succeeded circa 1895 and the death of Finlay., Title supplied by cataloger., P.2011.46.22 printed on blue paper., Printers include: Gast, St. Louis and L. Graham & Son, Ltd., N.O., Printed in upper left corner: Book [ ]; Page [ ]., Completed in manuscript to pharmacist H. F. Belanger, Houma, La. on November 22, 189- for 6 Smith's English Grammar for $2.25; on October 23, 1897 for several items for $25.53; on February 6, 1897 for several items for $26.17; and November 22, 1897 for several items for $26.17., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., The Gast firm, established by Leopold and August Gast in 1852, operated as Gast Banknote & Lithographing Co. 1887-1975.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.19-22]

Title: [Billheads of Houston Drug Company, druggists, Houston, Tx.]
Description: Billheads containing decorative type, ornamental and pictorial details, and a vignette exterior view of the firm's three-story storefront at the corner of Travis & Commerce Streets. Details include cloud imagery, sunbursts, flowers, filigree, the "I-X-L" remedies trademark, and a railroad track labeled with products sold and manufactured by the company. Products include Chill Cure, Cotton Marking Ink, Bird Seed, Nerve & Bone Liniment, and O.K. Headache Cure. Exterior view also shows pedestrians walking on the raised walk in front of the building at which horse-drawn wagons are being loaded and unloaded. Wagons also travel in the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed on rectos: Terms [60 days], Printed above the images: We do not Insure Delivery or Safe Carriage of Goods. They are at your Risk of Breakage and Transportation after Leaving our Store. Your Recourse is upon the Transportation Company. All Bills Payable in Houston Exchange or Its Equivalent., P.2011.46.165 completed in manuscript to druggist Jos. Tristram, Brenham, on February 2, 1897 for several items, including Seatts Emulsion, Syr. Figs, and Jayne's Expector. for $14.35., P.2011.46.166 completed in manuscript to druggist Jos. Tristram, Brenham on July 13, 1900 for several items, including Swamp Root, Oil Wormwood, and Hoofland's Tea for $22.88., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890-1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.46.165 & 166]

Title: Frank Diflo, locksmith, bell hanger and gunsmith, 1350 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia Guns and revolvers bought, sold and repaired. The highest cash price paid for old iron, copper, brass, lead, &c. Old stoves bought, sold and repaired
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a vignette of locks, keys, and bells., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Diflo [141.F.1]

Title: Julius E. Henkel, interior decorator, 912 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia Upholstering in all its branches
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Henkel [P.2006.20.17]

Title: Schaum & Uhlinger, successors to W.P. Uhlinger, Glenwood Ave. and Second St., Philadelphia, U.S.A Jacquard Machines, for every variety of fancy weaving. World's fair, Machinery Hall, Column O 49
Description: Illustrated trade cards depicting vignettes of three kinds of Jacquard looms built and sold by Schaum & Uhlinger, including the "Rotary cylinder 624th rise and fall Jacquard," "Rotary cylinder 624th single lift Jacquard," and the "Rotary cylinder 1248h double lift Jacquard". Schaum & Uhlinger was the partnership between Otto W. Schaum and William W. Uhlinger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schaum [P.9948]

Title: Schuehler Bros., tin roofers, heater & range workers, 1124 North Second Street, shop, 142 Edward St., Philadelphia L.C. Schuehler, 1222 N. Fourth Street. H.G. Schuehler, 142 Edward Street. Jobbing promptly attended to. Speaking tubes put up
Description: Manuscript note on verso: One $38.00 from O. Jorden, roof boiler house., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Schuehler [P.2006.20.43]

Title: The Gilbert Photo Co., Inc., 926 Chestnut St Gilbert's studio, 926 Chestnut Steet. Student discount card. Mr. [Herbert S. Kille] is entitled to a special discount of 33 1/3 per cent (from our regular prices) on all photographic work ordered at the time of presentation of this ticket at the studio. Retain this card during college term
Description: Illustrated trade card with the imprint for Gilbert's Studio in the upper left hand corner depicting a portrait within a shield surmounted by a rising sun and ribbons., Issued to Herbert S. Kille., Printed in blue ink., Manuscript note on recto: Walter Roberts., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Gift of Manuel Kean.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gilbert [P.8734]

Title: C.C. Whitenack, commercial photographer, 1944 N. Camac Street, Philadelphia 'phone diamond 844
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Whitenack [P.9627.1]

Title: [Business stationery of Strother Drug Co., previously W. A. Strother & Son, wholesale druggists, 906 Main Street, Lynchburg, Va.]
Description: Includes three letterheads and one billhead. Letterheads illustrated with ornamental and pictorial details, the trademark of the firm, and a vignette exterior view of the manufactory. Details include banners, sprigs of flowers, clouds, and art nouveau iconography. Trademark depicted as a mortar and pestle marked with the monogram WAS and "Semper Idem." Exterior view shows the multi-story, block long factory building in front of which cars and a train travels. Two of the prints also contain an ornament comprised of a frame resembling a belt surrounding the monogram SDC and marked "Established 1853.", Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Corlies, Macy, & Co. Incp'd, New York; Gast, St. Louis; and Brown-Morrison Co., Lynchburg, Va., P.2011.46.233 and P.2011.46.234 completed in type on June 18th, 1896 and May 20, 1898 to Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, Va. from W. A. Strother, President about the exchange of Sarsparilla and Poultry Feed between the firms and the associated corroborative business discounts and fees. P.2011.46.234 annotated in red print: W.M. Strother, President, Geo. L. Marsteller, Vice Pres't, Sidney Strother, Sec'y and Treas. Strother Drug Co. successors., P.2011.46.235 completed in type to Fowlkes Haythe Co. on April 25, 1903 for "1 keg Soda 112 lbs" and "1 doz Ext. Lemon #0" for $1.80. Also contains typed notes: 25-5, case 12 and sent to C. H. Beasley & Bro. Stamped: Less 2% if paid in 10 days. Interest charged after 60 days., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1890-ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - S [P.2011.46.233-236]

Title: A. E. Brown & Co., manufacturers of children and infants' shoes, Orwigsburg, Penna. A. E. Brown. J. A. Paul. P. W. Fegley Orders by mail will receive prompt attention
Description: Advertising blotter containing a caricature of "Our Commercial Traveler" (i.e., a traveling agent for wholesale merchants). Shows a gentleman sales agent caricatured with a large head, mustache, side burns, and prominent nose, attired in a suit and top hat, and carrying a valise and umbrella., Manuscript note on recto: Property of Jho. Shower, Orwigsburg, Pa., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.3]

Title: The old houses and stores with memorabilia relating to them and my father and grandfather
Description: Memory album compiled by Lewis containing written narratives, photographs, watercolors, textiles, drawings, prints and ephemera documenting his childhood and his lineage and family businesses and residences from the late 18th century to mid 19th century. Specific narrative topics include the provenance of the "Pictures" included in the album; "Memorabilia"; the "Marriage of our Ancestor, 1786. Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig (i.e., J. A. P. Lewis) and Anna Maria Klingemann"; 'In Memoriam: Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig' "; the "Memorials of the old Houses, Stores &c.," including deed, plot, architectural, and decor information pertaining to Lewis family residences at 121, i.e., 311 North Fifth Street (1791-1797), 60, i.e., 128 North Fourth Street (1797-1805), 82, i.e., 132 North Second Street (1814-1818), 124, i.e., 264 South Third Street (1818-1824), 148, i.e., 264 South Second Street (1824-1840) and rear storehouse on Laurel Street, and Sixteenth and Walnut streets (1840-1858), and the stores at Walnut and Front streets (1829-1856)., Other narratives describe the yellow fever epidemic of 1793; J. A. P. Lewis's service in the volunteer militia; G. Albert's siblings S. Weir, John A., and Theodore C.; John F. Lewis's successful management of the financial panic of 1828 and his entertaining, including fireworks and "ample supplies of groceries, provisions, wine and liquors" on store; the business practices of the import trade; the conversion of Second Street residences into storefronts; the regrettable disposal of family possessions from the China trade, including card receivers, satins, pearl and ivory seals, artificial flowers, tortoiseshell combs, and silk covered boxes; the childhood of Eliza Mower along the Schuylkill River, her clandestine marriage to Lewis, and her death; John F. Lewis's lucky Mexican dollar; and the childhood and young adult years of G. Albert Lewis, including his "spying" at family parties, Christmas memories, sailing excurisons on the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, and work for the Lewis firm., Album also contains numerous captioned and dated graphic and ephemeral materials, including watercolors and drawings by G. Albert Lewis, photographic views of family churches, family portraiture, newspaper clippings, certificates, bills of lading, and business and calling cards. Lewis's works depict family crests and coats of arms; sentimentalized genre scenes representing family lore, including J. A. P. Lewis's immigration to America for love; his childhood haunts, Christmas presents, and play areas; exteriors, interiors, grounds and gardens of the family residences and storefronts, including parlors, front rooms, gates, a weather vane designed as a cavalryman on the Walnut Street stable, dormer window (Second Street residence), store house on Laurel Street, and stores on Front and Walnut street; ground plans of Lewis residences (264 S. Second and Walnut Street); the "Great Tree" (South Second Street property); and Chinese exports and china patterns. Photographs depict family portraits of Johann Andreas Philipp and Anna Maria Lewis, John F. and Eliza Lewis, and G. Albert and Anne C. Lewis; the Lewis cargo ship "Globe," family churches and residences, including the altar of St. John's Lutheran Church, Crailsheim (J.A.P. Lewis's baptismal font) and St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Swedes Church, (Gloria Dei), and St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church (Philadelphia), and the final residence of Eliza Lewis at 1927 Spruce Street; and family artifacts, furniture, and mementoes, including Ludwig's sword and secretary and John F. Lewis's lucky Mexican dollar. Also contains engraved portraits of Frederick the Great and pictorial details by Lewis incorporated at the end of narratives and as frames around portraits., Ephemera includes certificates, bills of lading, and calling cards (including in Chinese) related to the Lewis firms; G. Albert's share certificate in the Philadelphia Museum Company; photomechanical and chromolithographed genre prints; an engraving sample possibly by James Otto Lewis; newspaper clippings, including advertisements and announcement for the Lewis firms, family obituaries, and poems; manuscript "endorsements on notes received, but protested for non-payment" by Weir, Lewis & Co. and family signatures, including that of Eliza Lewis; and textile swatches from Chinese curios, wall paper, and upholstery. Family trees and a chronology of the Lewis firm (until 1828) also form the content., Floral border in watercolor on title page. Border also includes pictorial details showing a sailing ship and Chinese character., Wm. F. Murphy's Sons, Co. Makers stamped on spine., Red leather binding with gold lettering., Dedication: "Dedicated to the Memory of my dear Mother who made the homes of my childhood most lovely and so beautiful!" Surrounded by watercolor frame reading "Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit Virgo," i.e., "This will help you remember once upon a time.", Gift of Oliver Allen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Transcription and inventory available at repository., See Sarah Weatherwax, "The Lewis Albums," The Magazine Antiques (August 2006), 116-121., See Oliver H. Allen, "The Lewis Albums," American Heritage 14 (December 1962), 65-80., One of six Lewis Family albums held in the Print Department., Housed in clamshell box., George Albert Lewis, son of Philadelphia China trade merchant John F. Lewis (1791-1858) of John A. Lewis & Co. and Eliza Mower (1788-1885), was a banker, genealogist, and artist descended from Hessian solder and Philadelphia Prothonotary Johann A. P. Lewis [formerly Ludewig]. Lewis studied art with G. W. Holmes, frequently exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Artist's Fund Society, and was a member of several organizations, including the Numismatic & Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Genealogical Society of Philadelphia, and the Library Company. He married Anne C. Larcombe on July 1, 1851 and with her had two children Alberta (1854-1934) and Hermann (b. 1863) and grandchildren Hildegarde Allen (b. 1885), editor and publisher Frederick Lewis Allen (1890-1954), Barbara Lewis [Shepperd] (b. 1885), Margaret Lewis [Browne] (b. 1886), and George Draper Lewis (b. 1888).
Creator: Lewis, G. Albert, 1829-1915
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9829.2]

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