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Title: U. S. B. M. Dockstaders. US BM black mail. Charles and Lewis Dockstader, Carncross' Minstrels, Eleventh St. Opera House, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Racist advertisement designed as a postcard to promote Carncross' Minstrels performers the Dockstaders, and the A. Vogeler & Co. patent medicine St. Jacobs Oil. Includes graphic details and vignettes depicting caricatured African Americans in a cancellation mark, stamp, and as postal workers. The cancellation mark (upper left) depicts the right, bust profile of a black man, possibly an allusion to a man in black face. The stamp (upper right) depicts the left, bust profile of a black man, possibly an allusion to a man in black face. In the lower left corner, an African American mail carrier, a mail bag around his shoulder, empties a "U.S.B.M." mailbox attached to a post. His back is to the viewer. In the lower right, an African American mail carrier, a mail bag filled with mail around his shoulder, and holding letters in his hand is depicted in mid stride. The unrelated Charles Dockstader and Lewis, i.e., Lew Dockstader (George Alfred Clapp) partnered in 1878. They joined John L Carncross' Minstrels in Philadelphia in 1880. The Dockstaders continued to perform with Carncross' until 1883 and the illness of Charles ending the partnership. In 1882, the men also performed with George Thatcher's Minstrel's (Philadelphia)and Haverly's Minstrels (St. Louis, Mo.). Lew remained with Carncross until 1886 and the creation of Dockstader's Minstrels., Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Printed on verso: Miss Information:-- Most worthy of estimation: After long and serious consideration on the reputation that you have in the nation. I have taken a serious inclination to remove my habitation, to a close situation, in order that I may pay a visitation for the sake of conversation. If this should meet with your approbation, I remain ever yours, without simulation. Ado Ration. P. S.---I thus give affirmation without qualifications that St. Jacobs Oil is the best application in the wide creation., Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Housed with the Ellen Phillips Advertising Card Collection., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)., RVCDC, Access points revised 2022., Description revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Dockstader [P.2017.6]

Title: C.H. Smith's double mammoth Uncle Tom's Cabin
Description: Trade card illustration of two white men seated on donkeys advertising a vaudeville production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Both of the men are portraying the character Marks from the novel. They are attired in top hats and jackets with coattails. They both carry umbrellas under their arms. Palm trees are visible in the background of the scene., Title from item., Advertising text on recto: Two Marks & donkey "Jennie.", Advertising text on verso: Double in quantity, quality and [illegible]. [illegible] Smith's Boston Double Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., at the Ladies' and Children's Matinee and Evening Performances, at Union Hall, for two nights only. Friday & Saturday May 12 & 13, Grand Saturday Matinee. 30 famous performers. 10 comedians. 15 South Carolina Jubilee Singers. 2 Funny Topsys. 2 Marks, the Eccentric Lawyers. 2 Educated and Trick Donkeys. Pack of imported Bloodhounds. Topsy No. 1 - Miss Daisy Markoe, in her great songs, dances, banjo and xylophone solos. Topsy No. 2 - Miss Josie Sutherland, in her beautiful skip-rope and plantation dances. Grand Ice Scene - Eliza and child escape [illegible] blood hounds. They don't catch her but go for the two Marks, the two laywers. Exciting scenes between dogs and lawyers. Great Jubilee and Plantation Scenes, with old-time songs. The two Marks enter on Donkeys , and then there's lots of fun. Beautiful and Grand Closing. Eva in the [illegible], with tableau, "Gates Ajar. All to be seen with Smith's Double Uncle Tom's Cabin, thus eclipsing all other companies in the world. General Admission, 25, 35 & 50 cts. [illegible] & 35 Cts. Reserved seats on sale at Waldron & Curtis' Drug Store., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Smith [P.2017.95.159]

Title: [African American woman dancing]
Description: Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American woman dancing. Shows the woman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a red hat decorated with flowers, gold bracelets, a dress composed of a yellow, blue, and white pattern with a red and black sash and flowers at the waist, orange stockings, and yellow shoes. She holds her skirt up with her hands and lifts her right leg up in a dance step., Title supplied by cataloger., Date deduced from the visual content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. 24 [P.2017.95.235]

Title: Fairbank's rock cordials, positive cure for all lung disorders
Description: Trade card promoting Fisher and Fairbanks' patent medicine Fairbanks' Rock Cordials and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man chef in the galley of ship. Shows the man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white chef's hat; a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows; a red vest with gold buttons; a white apron; blue pants; and black shoes. He stands holding a spoon in his right hand and with his left hand holds a bowl that is filled with an unidentifiable pink food over a barrel that is being used as a table. He smiles and looks to a blond-haired white girl in the right attired in a pink hat; a black choker; a red dress; a white pinafore; white stockings with red stripes; and black shoes. She carries a doll costumed in a matching outfit and leans to look at the chef mixing. In the foreground on the floor are a pan, a pot with a bowl on top of it, and a spoon. In the background is a stove with a steaming kettle on it and a large chain. In the right, there is a barrel and next to it is a doorway through which we can see a sailor attired in a brimmed hat, a blue jacket, and pants. He stands on the side of the ship and looks through a telescope at the water., Title from item., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Fairbanks [P.2017.95.62]

Title: “Universal family” Soapine, Kendall Mfg. Co., Providence, R.I
Description: Racist trade card promoting Kendall Manufacturing Co.’s Soapine and depicting caricatures and ethnic stereotypes of people helping Liberty wash laundry. Shows Liberty in the center personified as a white woman with blonde hair tied up in a bun attired in a blue cap with a white star and a white sleeveless dress with a red belt that has an American flag crest. She stands behind a wooden wash tub labeled “Kendall MFG Co.” that sits on top of six boxes labeled with the letter K. She spreads both of her arms out to the seven people around her. In the left, a white man with blond hair and mustache (possibly German,) holds a pipe in his mouth and is attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and black shoes. He bends over as he carries a large box labeled “universal soap” on his back. A white Scottish man with blonde hair, attired in a blue cap with a yellow feather, a green shirt with a red sash, and a red kilt, helps a white man with black hair and mustache (possibly French) attired in a blue uniform with gold epaulettes and black shoes, carry a large straw basket filled with white laundry to the wash tub. In the right, caricatures of an African American man in a white sleeveless top, a Native American man attired with a feather headdress and blue pants with a bundle of arrows on his back, and a Chinese man with his hair styled in a queue attired in a blue tunic, brown pants, and blue, slip-on, cloth shoes, carry an oversize wash board labeled “French Laundry Soap.” In the center foreground, a white man with blonde hair and attired in a blue shirt, brown pants, blue socks, and black shoes, has fallen down on the ground. Beside him is a broken white pipe, and a small black cat runs away. Henry L. Kendall (1805-1883) founded a soap manufactory in Providence, R.I. in 1827. The Kendall Manufacturing Co. was incorporated in 1860. The Company continued to manufacture soap into the mid-20th century., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Kendall [P.2017.95.96]

Title: Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Importers of cards, 324 & 326 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Not in Wainwright., Trade card depicting "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge." Shows a girl attired in a red frock and bonnet holding a basket with a "patissier" and windmill standing in the background. Also contains several lines of French text explicating the story of "Chaperon Rouge." The Leonhardt lithographic studio was renamed following the partnership between Leonhardt and his son Arno circa 1874 and the firm remained in operation until the early 20th century., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 99, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Le Petit
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Le Petit

Title: Theo. Leonhardt & Son, importers of cards, 324 & 326 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Not in Wainwright., Trade card depicting similarly-featured portraits of a tabby cat and mustached, bushy white- haired man as side by side pages of an open book. Cat wears a blue collar offset by a blue bookmark ribbon extending from the book edge. Advertising text on verso reads "We will furnish you One Thousand French Art Chromo Cards in complete sets, assorted from 10-20 designs which you may select from our price list, for Ten Dollars net. 500 cards assorted as above for $6.00 net. (The retail price of the cards is 12-15 cents per set.)" The Leonhardt lithographic studio was renamed following the partnership between Leonhardt and his son Arno circa 1874 and the firm remained in operation until the early 20th century., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 100, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Cat
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical Box 2 - Leonhardt - Cat

Title: Liberty Stove Works, Philadelphia. Iron King Cook improved
Description: Trade card for the Philadelphia stove manufacturer showing an African American house cook showing off the households's new "Iron King" stove to a baker delivering pies. The woman in kerchief, shawl, checkered dress and apron points to the stove and states "No more of your pies. The Missus has one of dem Iron King Stove -Shure Baker" to the baker in a baker's hat, smock, apron, and holding a square basket of pies. A kettle, frying pan, pot, and dutch oven rest on the burners of the stove that is marked "Chas. Noble & Co., Philada." Scene also shows a partial view of the baker's delivery wagon (advertising pastry and bread) outside of the open kitchen door. Founded as Abbott & Lawrence in 1851, later renamed Abbott & Noble in 1858, the stove manufactory was reestablished as Charles Noble & Co. in 1870., Advertising text of distributor on verso: Giersh, Senseman & Co., Manufacturers of Tinware, and Dealers in Stoves, Tinware, &c. An Examination of Our Stock Solicited. Sign: Big Coffee Pot. Agents for sale of the Improved Iron King Cool Salem, N.C., Printed on recto: Centennial Award 1876 Philada., Purchased with funds from the Walter J. Miller Trust for the Visual Culture Program.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Noble [P.2014.16.1]

Title: Conrad Busche, manufacturer & dealer in plain and fancy confectionery, wholesale and retail, 1230 Columbia Ave., Phila
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card displaying the title, surrounded by a garland of flowers. Includes a seated cherub figure in the lower right corner and a bust statue in the lower left corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Busche [P.9802.6]

Title: [J.W. LeMaistre trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting birds; flowers; putti carrying a pine tree or Christmas tree; children holding up a large sign for J.W. LeMaistre; a lady attired in Renaissance or Medieval clothing; a woman standing on a tree branch over a body of water releasing fish she caught in her lace shawl; General Ulysses S. Grant smoking while standing on a globe labeled "United"; and children symbolizing various countries by wearing traditional clothing and carrying the countries' flags, including England, Italy, and Spain., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and lithographers include L. Prang & Co. (Boston), McCalla & Staveley (Philadelphia) and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eight prints contain advertising text printed on versos promoting products imported and sold by J.W. LeMaistre, including embroideries, laces, curtains, handkerchiefs, collars, cushions, silk ties and bows, and bibs sold at his 46-48 North Eighth Street establishment 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 - LeMaistre [1975.F.492; 1975.F.498; 1975.F.501; 1975.F.508-512; 1975.F.514; P.9811.1 & 2; P.9838]

Title: Opening of Spring novelties. Mahlon Bryan & Co., tailors, Nos. 9 & 11 South Eleventh Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a waterfall, butterfly and scroll inscribed with the title. Mahlon Bryan & Co. was a partnership between tailor Mahlon Bryan and cutter Dagobert M. Rattay, 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 - Mahlon [1975.F.639]

Title: T. McCandless & Son, fancy & staple grocers, S.E. cor. 20th & Pine Sts., Philadelphia Established 1844
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an anthropomorphic frog sitting on a mushroom reading a book propped on an adjacent mushroom next to a skull and crossbones. T. McCandless & Son was a partnership between Thomas and his son James A. McCandless., 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 - McCandless [1975.F.623]

Title: Henry H. McCargo, dealer in all makes of sewing machines, 1611 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Henry H. McCargo tucked into a spray of flowers., Advertising text promoting the "New Home Sewing Machine" and the "Improved Domestic, the Genuine Singer, No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, American, Household" printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Walter Bethel., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McCargo [P.9300]

Title: McClees' Express, between Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia Baggage, packages, and freight of all kinds collected and delivered. In Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, West Philadelphia and Philadelphia. Movings promptly attended to. Orders by mail addressed to Bryn Mawr, will receive immediate attention. Offices: Rosemont, Geo. W. Ireland's store; Bryn Mawr, rear of drug store; Ardmore, C.A. Dillon & Son's store; Philadelphia, 3733 Lancaster Ave.; 3212, 1710 and Wm. McMullen's store, 1203 Market Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a small vignette of a man loading a horse-drawn delivery cart., 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 - McClees' [P.2006.20.65]

Title: [McIlvaine & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for McIlvaine & Co., grocers, at Juniper and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict various birds, flowers and women outside feeding birds, picking flowers, and sitting near the ocean., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints copyrighted 1879 by Bufford's Boston., Three prints, part of "Series No. 9", copyrighted by Wemple & Kronheim, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McIlvaine [1975.F.324; 1975.F.581; 1975.F.629 & 630; 1975.F.643; 1975.F.649 & 650]

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: 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]

Title: Jacob Lorsch, dealer in gentlemen's furnishing goods, 344 South Street, Philad'a
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., Manuscript note on verso: B. Spatz, 2031 North 11th., 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 - Lorsch [1975.F.499]

Title: G.M. Loudenslager, dealek [sic] in cigars and tobacco, 480 North Third St., Philad'a
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22] for similar illustration., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507]

Title: He loves me a little Novelty beauty & fashion. Maison Demorest. Agencies everywhere. Reliable patterns in sizes illustrated & described
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a winged cherub attired in a sheer robe standing on the leaves of a rose branch pulling the petals off of a flower. Madame Demorest's emporium moved to 17 East Fourteenth Street in New York in 1874., Advertising text printed on verso in ornate text: Centennial award over all cometitors. Maison de patrons, haute nouveaute, Paris & New York. Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London and New York styles. Mme. Demorest's cosmopolitan emporium of fashions representative pattern establishment of Europe & America. Maisons dans les principales villes d'Europe et d'Amérique. [Address illegible] Paris, 11 Bouverie St., London (wholesale depot), 17 East 14th St., New York., 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 - Demorest [1975.F.578]

Title: [Marks Bros. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a female Asian fairy figure with wings and chopsticks in her hair holding a fan and a flowering branch and butterflies encircling a plant in an urn with a geometric border. Marks Bros. was a partnership between William, Ferdinand and Emmanuel Marks., Title supplied by cataloger., 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 - Marks [1975.F.587 & 1975.F.589]

Title: "Mack's milk chocolate." The best! It is pure! Ready for instant use. Boiling water only required
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a couple bowling; a woman shooting a bow at a target, while her male companion smokes a pipe; a man spying on a couple walking through a hayfield; and an illustration of "The Cow Jumps Over the Moon" showing cats playing fiddles as a cow jumps over an anthropomorphic, smiling moon. Mack's milk chocolate was manufactured by Basley & McAlvanah, New York., 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 - Mack's [1975.F.575; 1975.F.577; 1975.F.580; 1975.F.590]

Title: Edward P. Macken, dealer in Key West, imported and domestic cigars, and tobacco, my 5 cent cigars a specialty. 1140 Pine St., Philad'a All daily, weekly and Sunday papers on hand
Description: Illustrated trade card embellished with a geometric border., 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 - Macken [1975.F.616]

Title: Compliments of the MacKinnon Pen Company
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for MacKinnon Pen Company tucked into a spray of flowers., Distributor's stamp on verso: E.H. White, agt., Mackinnon Pen Co., 333 & 335 Chest. St., Phila., 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 - MacKinnon [1975.F.576]

Title: Wm. MacMullan, Jr., grocer, (Successor to MacMullan Bros.) 1205 Market St., Philad'a
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for MacMullan tucked into a spray of roses., Price list of products sold by MacMullan printed on verso., 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 - MacMullan [1975.F.588]

Title: Public Ledger Job Printing Office, south-west corner Sixth and Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card containing a whimsical view showing a colonially-attired typesetter and printer at a typesetting table and press in the presence of two foppishly attired figures., Text providing figures showing "the daily edition of the Philadelphia Public Ledger...taken from the Press Room Books for the weeks ending the 18th and 25th of March, 1871" printed on verso. Figures exceed 460,000., 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.
Creator: Ledger Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.47]

Title: [Partridge's cafe and dining rooms trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Edward Patridge's dining rooms, established in 1862, at 15 North Eighth Street and 19 South Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict sprays of flowers, leaves, and acorns; two children attempting to capture a butterfly; a man in a clown suit carrying a bouquet of flowers walking by the light of the moon with a female companion; pottery adorned with cranes and Japanese imagery; and a woman selling produce to a man attired in Turkish clothing in a village near an establishment labeled "Partridge's cafe and dining rooms"., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the cafe and dining rooms and lists specific products served including Christmas cakes, ice creams, water-ices, frozen fruits, oysters, roast turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, veal, coffee, tea, chocolate, strawberries and strawberry cream., 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 - Partridge's [1975.F.687; 1975.F.690; 1975.F.692 & 693; 1975.F.699 & 700; 1975.F.706; 1975.F.711; 1975.F.720a; P.9708.1; P.9798.4; P.9802.11; P.9810.4]

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: [Old Judge cigarettes, Goodwin & Co., New York, U.S.A.]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting patent information printed in gold on red bands attached to "Old Judge" cigarettes and surrounded by a scroll, florettes, geometric shaped-borders, and ornate text. Goodwin & Co. merged with other tobacco companies in 1890 to form the American Tobacco Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso entitled, "Important for cigarette smokers to know," promotes the rice paper (patented in 1878) used in "Old Judge" cigarettes produced by Goodwin & 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 - Old [1975.F.365]

Title: Painter, Read & Eldredge, fashionable clothing, Franklin Hall, 321 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a colorful dragon and a smaller insect., 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 - Painter [1975.F.719]

Title: "The Palace," 323 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Next door to "Fidelity." Imported & domestic segars, meerschaum goods and smokers' articles
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting women looking at the ocean through binoculars, standing outside amidst trees and herding sheep. Also shows figures attired as clowns spanking and kicking one another, stumbling with a bottle of wine, carrying packages, discovering discarded clothing, dropping fruit after being captured by a uniformed man with a sword, eating, and playing a horn., 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 - Palace [P.8666.3m; P.8666.3o; P.8666.3r-x]

Title: Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: E.H. Parry, fashionable hatter, S.E. cor. 10th & Market Sts. Phila
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting two couples walking arm-in-arm in opposite directions. Includes two dogs and random items scattered on the ground including a rifle, bucket, and eyeglasses., Advertising text printed on verso promotes gentlemen's and youths' hats and a comprehensive line of straw hats for sale at E.H. Parry's store., 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 - Parry [1975.F.667]

Title: Tyler's market & fruit store, 1516 Market Street, elegant bananas & oranges 25, 30
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers., 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 - Tyler [1975.F.874]

Title: Curwen Stoddart & Brother, 450, 452 and 454 N. Second Street, Philadelphia Table linens. Table napkins and doylies, bordered towels and towelings, plain towels and crashes, turkey red tabling, loom dice tabling, counterpanes, quilts, comfortables, and blankets, of all grades and sizes at low prices. For family use, hotel and boarding house keepers
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting cats standing in a basket with their front paws propped on the top rim. They meow and attempt to crawl out of the basket. Curwen Stoddart and Company was the partnership between Curwen, Joseph, and Curwen Stoddart, Jr., 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 - Stoddart [1975.F.192]

Title: [Strawbridge & Clothier trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Strawbridge & Clothier's dry goods store at Eighth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict men riding in a horse-drawn carriage past a sign reading "The largest retail stock of dry goods. Strawbridge & Clothier, Eighth & Market Sts., Philada."; an old man seated with his cane watching a woman harvest wheat; a chef wearing an apron and chef's hat pulling on the neck of a duck; and a porter rushing off of a train to help a man carrying Strawbridge & Clothier packages. In 1861, Justus Strawbridge opened a dry goods store at the northwest corner of Market and Eighth streets. In 1868 another young Quaker, Isaac Clothier joined him and together they prospered selling good quality domestic and imported dry goods., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.816] copyrighted 1878 by Strawbridge & Clothier., One print [1975.F.806] contains advertising text printed on verso: Philadelphia, Dec. 1880. With the compliments of the season we present this little Calendar for the coming year. Respectfully, Strawbridge & Clothier. Eighth and 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 - Strawbridge [1975.F.763; 1975.F.806; 1975.F.816; 1975.F.851]

Title: [The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Co.'s Sun Dial gas stove trade cards]
Description: Illustrated trade cards depicting before and after scenarios entitled "Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove" and "After they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove". In the "before" scene, a disheleved female domestic worker, surrounded by debris, drops cinders and sets the stove on fire as a concerned and hesitant family enters the room. In the "after" scene, with the aid of a Sun Dial stove, the pleasant and well-groomed maid has already prepared breakfast and tidied the dining area as the happy family enters the room for breakfast. The Goodwin Gas Stove & Meter Company was founded by William Wallace Goodwin and his father Oliver W. Goodwin., Title supplied by cataloger., Before they had the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.791]: "Sure Sor! says Biddy "it's not my fault this breakfast's not ready; faith I used all the morning paper and a sup of kerosene too and bedad it smokes like a chimney yet. Indade Sor, you've frightened me so I've split all the cinders.", After they had purchased the "Sun Dial" gas stove caption [1975.F.867]: Indade Mum, the breakfast will always be ready on time since you got the "Sun Dial," sure the work's so aisy now, I was thinking Mum I wouldn't object to a small reduction of my wages., Advertising text printed on versos promotes gas burning stoves and includes numbered lists of advantages over coal and "ordinary gas stoves"., One print [1975.F.791] contains the trademark printed 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 - Sun Dial [1975.F.791 & 1975.F.867]

Title: E.D. Trymby, furniture, 1217 Market Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting chairs, tables, plant stands, stools and curtains, all products made by Enos D. Trymby at 1217 Market Street in Philadelphia., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Trymby's "high class furniture", including parlor, dining room and bedroom furniture., 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 - Trymby [P.9642.5]

Title: [John P. Twaddell trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John P. Twaddell's fine shoe store at 1212 Market Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a spray of flowers and children walking in a single file line with shoes on poles, one of them with a sign labeled "Solar Tip Brigade". One print [1975.F.841] contains the trademark of John Mundell & Co. printed on recto and verso and a vignette printed on verso showing a female cook dumping a large pot of gravy into a container with the description: "the cook is wasting her time, for the gravy runs out almost as fast as it runs in"., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.841] printed by Craig, Finley & Co., 1020 Arch Street, Phila., One print [1975.F.841] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Solar Tip Shoes as the shoes worn by one thousand boys at Girard College 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 - Twaddell [1975.F.841 & 1975.F.881]

Title: ["It leads them all." The Sunday Item.]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a man riding a horse. Holding a very large postcard, he winks at the viewer and points toward the "postal card" text. The Sunday Item was a Philadelphia newspaper that was active between 1847 and 1897., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso contains a vignette of a man pulling on the string of a doll. Text in quotes flanking the image includes "The string not broken." and "Jumping Jack Jones did it." Also includes the "Route of Athletic Parade"., 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 - Sunday [P.8666.3c]

Title: Mrs. Swasey, 340 N. Eighth St., Philada Trimmings, notions, hosiery and gloves a specialty
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers. Trimmings store owned by Georgiana Swasey, wife of Captain W.P. Swasey., 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 - Swasey [P.9798.3]

Title: [Thermaline, manufactured by Dundas Dick & Co., New York]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a spray of flowers surrounded by a decorative border., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Thermaline as a remedy for chills and fever, fever and ague, all malarial diseases, liver complaint, dyspepsia, general debility, rheumatism, neuralgia, sick headache, colds, slight catarrh and other pulmonary diseases., 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 - Thermaline [1975.F.875]

Title: Thitchener & Glastaeter, steam job printers, 14 & 16 Vesey St., New York Job printing of every description. Invitations, programmes, for balls and parties. Fine color work a specialty. Wedding invitations, cards, monograms
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the monogram of Thitchener & Glastaeter within gilt-lined borders., 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 - Thitchener [P.9111.10]

Title: Henry Tolman, dealier in railway, machinists', engineers' and general supplies, also machinery and tools, No. [228] Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Thos. Thompson, Sons & Co., manufacturers and importers of upholstery materials, curtains, decorations and novelties. Retail department, Nos. 1430 and 1432 Chestnut Street, (Young Men's Christian Association building.), Philadelphia Thos. M. Thompson. Lewis A. Thompson. Wholesale department, 242 South Second Street. Presented by R.M. Morrell
Description: 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 - Thompson [P.2006.20.45]

Title: Wm. Menke & Bro. Dress trimmings. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a cherub wearing only a sash kneeling under a large folded paper structure., Advertising text printed on verso: Wm. Menke & Bro., wholesale and retail dealers in ladies' dress trimmings, Berlin zephyrs, embroideries, laces, French corsets, full line of gloves, etc. No. 804 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Fringes, buttons, &c., made to order. Largest assortment in the 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 - Menke [1975.F.625]

Title: S.L. Miller, plain & fancy printer, Waldoboro, Me
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a woman attired in a fancy dress, heavy winter cape, and hat carrying a masquerade mask., 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 - Miller [P.9111.6]

Title: [Milliken's linen store trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for G. Milliken & Sons at 828 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a vignette of a loom surrounded by a garland of holly and a woman seated working at a loom. G. Milliken's linen store was established in 1846 for the importation and sale of pure linen goods of every description., One print [1975.F.637] copyrighted 1877 by L. Prang & Co. and printed by McCalla & Stavely, prs., 237-9 Dock St., Phila., One print [1975.F.637] contains advertising text promoting G. Milliken's linen products printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1877-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Milliken's [1975.F.636 & 637]

Title: If dat ar fish knowd dis wor Merrick's thread, he wouldnt ha bit Merrick Thread Co. Best six cord 8
Description: Racist trade card for the Merrick Thread Company at 248 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia and depicting Black men, attired only in loincloths, pulling a captured whale onto a beach. The five men, portrayed in racist caricature, stand on the beach and hold onto the thread coming from an oversized spool labeled, "Merrick Thread Co. Best Six Cord 8," in the right. The whale with an open mouth of sharp teeth is pulled from the ocean onto the beach. In the background, two men run, and palm trees are visible in the right. Merrick Thread Co. was founded in 1865 by Timothy Merrick, Austin Merrick, and Origen Hall in Mansfield, Connecticut. After its founding, the company established mills in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1898, the company merged with thirteen other independent thread and yarn manufacturers to form the American Thread Company., Title from item., Date inferred from date of operation of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Merrick Thread Co.'s best six cord soft finish spool cotton for machine & hand sewing and offers patrons "two lithoed water-color engravings" and "Sunshine for Little Children" on receipt of twenty-five cents., 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 - Merrick [P.2002.30]

Title: Compliments of Merscher Bros., tailors, 521 Poplar Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak). Includes geometric borders., 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 - Merscher [P.9615.16]

Title: Rain-time. / Sun-time
Description: Illustrations entitled "Rain-time" on rectos depict a man standing under a doorway overhang to keep from getting wet in the rain., Illustrations entitled "Sun-time" on versos depict a man standing outside near trees, flowers and a wooden fence playing a musical instrument that resembles a horn., 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.1035 & 1036]

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