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Title: Try King's quick rising buckwheat. It is the best. The cook likes it
Description: Racist trade card promoting King Cereal Manufacturing Company and depicting a caricature of an African American woman domestic serving pancakes to a white couple while an African American man cook smiles in the kitchen. Shows the African American woman domestic, attired in a red dress, a white apron, and a white bonnet, holding her apron up in her hands while looking at the viewer and winking her eye. In the right, a brown-haired, white man with a mustache attired in a black suit, a white collared shirt, and black shoes and a white woman with brown hair in a bun and attired in a blue dress, sit in wooden chairs at a table covered with a white tablecloth. The white woman looks at the viewer as she wipes her mouth with a white napkin. On the table is a plate of pancakes, a coffee pot, glasses, and a condiment tray with various bottles. Through a doorway in the left background, the African American man cook, attired in a white chef’s hat and jacket, a white apron, pants, and black shoes, smiles as he stands behind a table with a box of King’s Quick Rising Buckwheat. In the right on the wall are two framed pictures and a large window with white curtains. Image also includes a red rug and a wooden chair with a green cushion. Edward King (d. 1907) founded King Cereal Manufacturing Company in 1861 in Chicago. He sold his interest in the firm to H. Horner & Co., wholesale grocers in 1903. The firm continued operations into the 1920s., Title from item., Place of publication inferred from place of operation of the advertised business., Date deduced from history of the advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: We manufacture and sell all the package goods name[?] King’s Quick Ris[ing] Flour, King’s Quick Rising W[heat] For Biscuit, &c. Mrs. Hopper’s Pan[cake] a splendid substitu[te] [spe]cially adapted King’s R[ising] [?]ne Breakfast “Cut Oat Meal. “White Hominy. “Corn Grits or Samp. “Farina. (From the Best Wheat.) “Golden Corn Meal. “Silver Corn Meal. “Flaked Hominy. The best preparation of Corn ever placed on the market. Makes a delicious breakfast dish or after dinner dessert., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - King [P.2017.95.98]

Title: Use Dunham's concentrated cocoanut
Description: Racist trade card promoting Dunham's Concentrated Cocoanut and depicting caricaturized portrayals of African men harvesting coconuts. Two bare-chested men stand with a large basket filled with coconuts in the grassy center of a grove of coconut trees. In the left, the man attired in a red sarong, leans over and grips the basket with both hands. In the right, the man, attired in a blue sarong, a coconut on his head, hops in the air on one leg. Two monkeys, one with their arm in the air, are visible above the man and in a coconut tree. In the distant background two men harvest coconuts into a basket. In the lower left corner is an inset containing an image of a box of "Dunham's concentrated cocoanut." John S. Dunham, his son J. Frank, and James Pannell Wood (1861-1906) founded Dunham's Manufacturing Company in 1885 in New York City and St. Louis. The company continued to manufacture shredded coconut until circa 1950s., Title from item., Date deduced from history of advertised business., Advertising text printed on verso: Dunham's concentrated cocoanut. Patented 1879. The only article of prepared cocoanut on the market that equals the fresh nut. Always fresh and sweet. Why pay 35c. per pound for sugar and other cheaper admixtures? Buy Dunham's concentrated, the only absolutely pure cocoanut, and sweeten to taste. [?] by Dunham's Manufacturing Co. St. Louis, Mo., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Dunham [P.2017.95.53]

Title: [William B. Dixey trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards, including the titles, "Caught!" "Peacemaker," "Eggspectation," "The glorious fourth," "Sleighing," and "A fowl blow," for William B. Dixey's plumbing, gas and steam fitting business at 3826 Market Street in West Philadelphia. Illustrations include Christmas and Independence Day imagery and depict children performing a variety of activities, including picking apples, playing and pulling a Christmas tree in the snow, smelling flowers, acting, and diving. Also includes a man being blown up by a gas explosion, a group of men thrown onto the ice from their horse-drawn sleigh, frogs, ducks, chicks, eggs, flowers, balloons, dogs and cats., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co., Eleven prints contain the following advertisement: Agents for Hellyer's Water Closets., Four prints die cut and shaped into decorative fans., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Dixey [1975.F.93; 1975.F.222a; 1975.F.224; 1975.F.228; 1975.F.232; 1975.F.233 & 234; 1975.F.236-239; 1975.F.241-243; 1975.F.263 & 264; 1975.F.278-281; 1975.F.285; 1975.F.287]

Title: [Set of six African American caricature trade cards advertising Franz Aman, wine, liquor, and lager beer saloon, no. 727 North Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Set of racist trade cards, some captioned, depicting African American male and female caricatures and stereotypes. Figures portrayed with malproportioned facial features. Captioned cards include "A New Coon in Town" showing an African American dandy, with a cigarette in his mouth, and attired in a grey bowler, purple jacket with flower boutonnière, red stiff-collared shirt, blue checkered pants, and red socks accessorized with yellow gloves, a monocle, and an umbrella; "Bones" showing an African American minstrel performer, attired in a ruffled clown collared shirt and red jacket with tails while playing sticks above his head and side kicking; and "Did you see me" showing a comic African American male figure, holding his bowler in the air and with one foot extended toward the viewer ("Did you see me" written on the sole of his foot). Uncaptioned cards depict an African American minstrel figure, attired in a ruffled collared shirt, seated, and holding a tambourine on his knee (probably originally captioned 'I don't do this for a livin"); an older African American woman, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and apron, resembling a cook and smoking a pipe (probably originally captioned "Just like the old me"); and a curvaceous African American woman attired in a red hat, square neck, knee-length dress, sash, and red stockings while side stepping. Cards advertise the saloon operated by Franz Aman at the address listed 1886-1888, a period when "Coon" songs were a fad. The "Bones" and "Tambourine" figures were often a part of the standard first act of a three-act minstrel performance, Title supplied by cataloger., Two of the six cards contain slightly legible captions printed over with gold ink.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade cards - Aman [P.2014.26.1]

Title: Pleis' celebrated fit powders & liver pills, 860 N. Third Street, Philadelphia
Description: Trade card containing a parental scene using animal figures. Shows a mother and father bunny playing jump rope with their bunny child. The child bunny wears a ribbon around his neck and jumps under the airborne rope. Rabbit tracks are visible on the ground. Also contains several lines of advertising text on the verso. Text promotes the testing of the powder by "over 40,000 cases," its curative powers for any age and for any length of time of the affliction of "spasms," and price per box ($.85 cents or $1). Advertising text also promotes "Pleis' Vegetable Liver Pills" at "25 cents per box.", 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: c1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.45]

Title: M.F. McDonough & Co., importers, No. 117 South Front St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a scroll with the title inscribed superimposed onto two scenes, including a rose and diagonial border of rosettes and other geometric shapes and a snow-covered dwelling surrounded by bare trees., Title printed in purple ink., Letter printed on verso marked "Philadelphia, June, 1882" notifies M.F. McDonough & Co. patrons about the sale of "Eugene Clicquot" brand of champagne from France., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McDonough [1975.F.626]

Title: A. Maron, 1612 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two girls gathered around a table picking at a large plate of sweets and two boys in horseback riding gear trying to mount the back of a large muzzled dog. Alfred Maron, son of Anna Maron who worked with Charles Penas at his 830 Walnut Street establishment, succeeded in Penas ca. 1885. Alfred Maron owned confectioneries at both 830 Walnut Street and 1612 Chestnut Street in 1885., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Maron [1975.F.627 & 1975.F.631]

Title: The new Philadelphia clothing house. Mackey, Johnson, Turner & Co., 922 Chestnut Street One price
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a boy and a girl standing on large daffodil petals. The boy holds the girl's hands to help her down from a taller flower., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mackey [1975.F.710]

Title: Pope's rifle air pistol gallery, 41st Street, opp. Poplar, Centennial grounds, 40 ranges, 10 shots, 10 cts
Description: Trade card for the Boston pistol manufacturer containing a comic image titled "When the Swallows Homeward Fly." Shows a man, a bib at his neck, eating from plates with a roast and a whole chicken. The large-eyed man places a spoon of food into his very wide mouth. Also contains an image of a $5.00 "Pope's Rifle Air Pistol," advertising text, and "A Few of the Many Testimonials" printed on the verso. Advertising text includes details about the adjustable gun stock, ease of loading for a "lady or boy," and additional paraphernalia (darts, slugs, and ramrod claw wrench). Albert Pope established Pope Manufacturing Company circa 1865., Printed on recto: [over]., Stamped on verso in red ink: Prices Reduced. Black from $5.00 to $3.00. Nickel $6.00 to $4.00., 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: 1876, c1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.46]

Title: E. McKelvey, fine family groceries, 1118 Columbia Ave Choice family flour a specialty
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for M. McKelvey adjacent to a bird's nest in the grass with two brightly colored birds and a butterfly below the card., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - McKelvey [P.9802.13]

Title: Smoke the "owl" cigar 5¢
Description: Illustrated trade card and ornament die cut and shaped into a birdcage containing an owl perched on a cigar labeled "owl". Duplicate image printed on verso. The cigar manufacturing concern Straiton & Storm, producer of the "Owl" cigars, was founded in New York City in 1863., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Owl [P.9983.3]

Title: [Dudley L. Page's confectionery trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Dudley L. Page's "pure candy" and "Boston candy manufactory" at 918 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict hands holding bunches of flowers and a cricket player attired in uniform holding his cricket bat in the air., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.673] copyrighted 1881 by O.J. Ramsdell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Page [1975.F.673 & 1975.F.681-683]

Title: Parker's dyspepsia cure
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a "cut-i-cure-u" saw., Advertising text and prices printed on verso for the "cut-i-cure-u wood saw" produced by the J. Barton Smith Company, Gilbert Parker, treasurer, s.e. cor. Fourth and Somerset Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Parker's [P.2002.67.13]

Title: Tyndale & Mitchell Co. have removed to their new store, No. 1217 Chestnut Street, where they will be pleased to see their old friends and customers. China, glass and earthenware, of every description, at lowest practicable prices
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl standing on a large green leaf and holding on to the stems of yellow flowers to keep from falling to the ground. Tyndale & Mitchell Co. was the partnership between Harold Tyndale & E.P. Mitchell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tyndale [1975.F.648]

Title: Town & Brother, manufacturers and dealers leather belting & lace leather, rubber goods, belting, packing, hose, gaskets, tubing, door mats, &c. Rubber clothing, boots and shoes. Stationers and druggists sundries: erasive rubber, elastic bands, nursery sheeting, rubber corks, syringes, atomizers, air goods, nipples, &c. 608 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Town [P.2006.20.38]

Title: "Creme" oat meal toilet soap
Description: Trade card promoting soap manufacturer J.D. Larkin & Co. and depicting a racist caricature of an anthropomorphized chimpanzee as a man hunter. He stands in front of a section of tall grass and holds a clutch of birds in his left hand and a rifle under his right arm. He is attired in a hunting cap, red jacket, tan pants, and black high boots. Leather straps are criss-crossed over his chest. J.D. Larkin & Co. was founded in 1875. By 1881 the soap company included over 100 factory workers and sustained specialized departments for advertising and shipping, as well as solicited to door-to-door private residences in addition to shopkeepers. Trade cards with the company logo were included with each box of soap. By 1885 the firm only directly sold their products to residential customers and was known for their premiums. The company was sold in 1941 and continued as a mail-order business until 1962., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, Clay & Richmond, Buffalo, N.Y., 1881., Printed in upper right corner on recto: J, D, L, & C. monogram (ie. J.D. Larkin & Co.) surmounting "Buffalo, N.Y.", Series no. printed on recto: II., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Creme" toilet soap sold by A.E. Snow, dealer in drugs, medicines, etc. in Plainfield, Vt. Also promotes "six different designs" of cards by the People's Mfg. Co., Buffalo, 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: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - S [P.9828.6852]

Title: Making ends meet
Description: Trade card for the Philadelphia branch of the Singer Sewing Manufacturing Company containing a comic view showing a boy sewing the ends of two cat's tails together with a Singer sewing machine. Two other boys hold the horrified looking cats, while a dog sits near the machine. Singer Manufacturing Company relocated to 1202 Chestnut Street in 1882., Advertising text printed on verso: Principal Office of The Singer Manufacturing Company Removed to 1202 Chestnut Street. Genuine Singer Sewing Machines. At Low Prices For Cash., 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., For duplicate, see trade card - Singer [1975.F.865]
Date: [1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.59]

Title: [Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. fine carriages, wagons, etc., South Bend, Ind. trade cards]
Description: Trade cards containing views of "Studebaker Platform Spring Truck. No. 281." and "Studebaker Platform Spring Coal Wagon. No. 481 " Views also show horse teams hitched to the vehicles, the drivers, and background scenery of a storefront and coal mill. One of the cards also contains vignette views of Stuebaker Bros. Mfg. main and branch buildings printed on the verso. Buildings depicted include "Carriage Works, South Bend, Ind."; "Factory & Repository, 203-205 Michigan Ave. Chicago"; and "Wagon & Spring Wagon Works, South Bend, Indiana." Views include street and pedestrian traffic. Strudebaker Bros., established in 1852 and incorporated in 1868, opened a Chicago factory in 1884. Other "Branch Houses" included New York City; San Francisco; Kansas City; Portland, Oregon; St. Joseph, Mo.; and Salt Lake City Utah., Title supplied by cataloger., 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: Gray & Parker, artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.60 & 61]

Title: [John Mundell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John Mundell & Co.'s solar tip shoes manufactured in Philadelphia. One illustration, labeled "Girard College Philada, where 200 boys wear our solar tip shoes," depicts a small group of girls watching a large group of boys playing ball on the lawn in front of Founder's Hall, Girard College. A marching band passes through in the background. Also shows two scenes, "The foolish man" depicting a flustered father surrounded by bills and upset children wearing worn shoes juxtaposed with "The wise man" who purchased solar tip shoes and is surrounded by happy, smiling children. Girard College, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter and constructed between 1833-1847, occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Printers and engravers include E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos includes John Mundell & Co.'s trademark and promotes solar tip shoes., Distributor's imprint printed on verso of P.9806: At wholesale by McKee & Branham, Indianapolis, Ind., Distributors' imprints printed on verso of P.9800: wholesale dealers, Dunn, Salmon & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.; sold at retail by M.E. Aldrich, Philadelphia, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Mundell [P.9800 & P.9806]

Title: S. Musselman, (formerly with E. Burthey,) manufacturer of fine confections, 274 South Fourth St., Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl's head framed by torn paper and cracks after poking her head through., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Musselman [1975.F.615]

Title: Present in many cans of Miles' Baking Powder due bills for handsome book and 2 paintings, in some cans due bill for a watch
Description: Illustrated trade card for Miles' Baking Powder Co. at 246 and 248 North Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia depicting a well-dressed couple standing and leaning against a stone wall near rose bushes, smelling freshly picked flowers., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "picture book and two elegant litho water color paintings, size 16 x 20, worth about $2.50" included in many cans of Miles' Premium Baking Powder. Also includes positive testiments from individuals and businesses that have used Miles' Premium Baking Powder, dated 1879-1883., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Miles' [P.9615.17]

Title: F. Pulaski & Co., 1026 Chestnut St Opening days, November 1st and 2d, 1881
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting F. Pulaski & Co., a fancy goods store at 1026 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict a white woman pulling on her red stockings as her pet cat rubs his head against her foot and the same woman attired in a brown coat, a pink hat, blue stockings and white shoes, leaving her home with her cat trailing her. Also includes two related scenes showing a white woman standing with her head lowered before her surprised white husband with black soot on her face and clothing. In the subsequent scene, the husband is fighting with a Black man. In the right, the white man's brown cap flies off his head and white flour is dispersed through the air. In the left, the Black man's brown, brimmed hat falls to the ground as he grabs his hands around the white man's head with his right leg lifted up. F. Pulaski & Co., initially a partnership between Frank Pulaski and M.L. Kline when these trade cards were created, later specialized in pictures and picture frames., Title from item., Text in French printed on recto [1975.F.714]: "En voyant sa femme changée de couleur, Pétrin qui a mauvais caractère, devine tout de suite que Charabia lui a fait une niche. Il a son plan.", Text in French printed on recto [1975.F.718]: "Comme ils se sont promis de faire suer: Charabia, de la farine à chon ami Pétrin, et Pétrin du charbon a Charabia, ils se tiennent parole.", 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: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pulaski [1975.F.714; 1975.F.718; 1975.F.764 & 1975.F.871]

Title: Compliments of Quinlan & Fisher, 816 Arch Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a bouquet of flowers. Quinlan & Fisher was a partnership between Francis T. Quinlan and Charles F. Fisher., Advertising text printed on verso promotes Quinlan & Fisher as "Philadelphia's greatest credit house," allowing customers to pay $1 down and $1 per week on a bill of $10. Includes a list of stock offered by the store and a price list printed below it for select items., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Quinlan [P.9651.19]

Title: John T. Roberts & Bro., reliable coal dealers, 1825 and 1827 N. Tenth St., and Germantown
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three miners working in a dimly lit coal mine. Each miner has a lamp at his feet and a light on his hard hat. The miner in the foreground swings his pick axe, while the man behind him takes a break and rests his weight on the axe., Seal on recto: Purest and hardest, Lehigh Coal., Manuscript note on verso: Bessie., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Roberts [P.9724.2]

Title: Fannie Price, dealer in all kind of county produce, stalls, 125 & 127 Farmer's Market, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a man attired in a uniform standing next to two children seated in a goat cart. A small dog barks at the goats in the foreground. A balustrated staircase is partially visible behind the title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Price [1975.F.656a]

Title: Geo. Rehfuss & Sons, mech. eng's, manufacturers of light machinery of every description. Dental and surgical instruments. Inventors of special machinery, Tiernan Street, below Wharton, Philadelphia, Pa. Residence, 1316 S. Broad St
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rehfuss [P.2006.20.41]

Title: D. Wilmot Richardson, fashionable hatter, 2024 & 2026 Callowhill St., Philadelphia
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards entitled, "Marrying for money," "Working for money," "Dealing for money," and "Begging for money," depicting vignettes surrounded by paper and coin currency. One vignette shows an older man and a young woman. As he mischievously twists his mustache, she is posed in a childlike manner, seated and playing with his pocketwatch. Others depict a woman bringing food or drink to an older blacksmith working with a hammer and anvil; a woman seated at a table and a man standing at her side; and an older man seated and begging for money with his hat and a woman standing next to him with her hand open., Copyrighted 1881 by W.W. Chew., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Richardson [P.9726.1-4]

Title: Rea & Riley, carpenters and builders, No. 627 Filbert Street Bulks set in, stores fitted up and jobbing promptly attended to. Howell Rea, 1731 N. 19th St. Saml. R. Riley, 1511 N. 11th St
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rea [P.2006.20.40]

Title: [Read's Grand Duchess Cologne trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Wm. H. Read, 185 W. Baltimore St., Balto., Md. and 138 Fulton Street, New York. Illustrations depict bust portraits of well-dressed women and includes one woman holding a large bottle of Read's Grand Duchess Cologne., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Read's Grand Duchess Cologne and Sore Throat and Catarrh Powder and lists prizes awarded Read's cologne as late as 1882., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Read [1975.F.727; 1975.F.743 & 744]

Title: [Philadelphia roller skating rink, Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting an interior view of the barrel-roofed Chestnut Street skating rink at the northwest corner of Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Includes men, women and children skating around the rink in a clockwise motion and spectators observing the skaters from two levels of balconies lining the periphery of the rink. Rink was used as the venue for the Battle of Yorktown diorama exhibit by Colonel F. Lienard during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the roller skating rink and its amenities and lists open hours., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., See "Washington at Yorktown," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 13, 1875., See related photograph "Diorama - Washington at Yorktown" (stereos - Centennial Photographic Company [P.9982.2]).
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Philadelphia [P.9839]

Title: Phenix Ins. Co. Nothing new under the sun
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three western travelers in Egypt observing an image of a phoenix rising from flames (the Phenix Insurance Company's trademark) on the side of a large boulder. Travelers include a lady with a parasol seated on a camel, a man riding a donkey and another ma with a Phenix Ins. Co. policy in his back pocket hunched in front of the rock closely observing the image. Also shows two natives, an Egyptian woman pointing to the boulder and a naked man on top of the rock looking down at the travelers. The title mimics hieroglyphics in the rock adjacent to the phoenix. A caravan line is visible in the right background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Phenix [1975.F.672]

Title: Rapson's trimmings and zephyrs, 132 N. Eighth Street, corner of Cherry St
Description: Illustrated trade card die-cut and shaped into a bound book with an illustration on the cover depicting a bucolic scene of a man leading animals to a tree-lined stream. A man fishes in the stream in the distance and cattle approach the water on the opposite bank., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Rapson's [P.9728.6]

Title: Noix de coco, manufactured by Warner & Merritt, Philadelphia For puddings, pies and pastry
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting indigenous men and women serving a white woman in a tropical paradise. She relaxes in a hammock as a man fans her with a paddle fan, a woman sets a tray of food next to her, and a man gathers coconuts into a basket. Additional imagery includes palm trees, a fountain, a monkey, a parrot, and pineapples. Warner & Merritt began importing fruit in Philadelphia ca. 1869 and were one of the largest firms importing West Indian fruit in the country by the time of their insolvency in 1884., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Warner [P.9947]

Title: [The Universal Plow Company, Canton, Ohio]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting monkeys dressed as jockeys racing on the backs of three rabbits through a field. Also includes vignettes of the rear adjusting and the front adjusting plows on verso., Copyrighted 1888 by Chas. Brown., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on verso: The Universal patent front and rear adjusting plows. General purpose for two or three horses. All parts interchangeable in steel or chilled iron. Repairs always fit. The lightest draft, the best work, adjustments unsurpassed, no wrench, no trouble, no lost time. Send for circular. Manufactured by The Universal Plow Co., Canton, Ohio., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: For sale by H.M. Bushman & Bro., Carlisle, Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: c1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Universal [P.2002.67.12]

Title: Lewis Voight & Son, artistic paper hangings
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting anthropomorphic blue bird with a portfolio under one wing and a painting palette under the other. A frog sits adjacent to the bird at the edge of a lily pond. Includes flowers and a paddle fan inscribed with the monogram of the company: LV&S., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Voight [1975.F.887]

Title: Votti & Newman, manufacturers of Votti's patent clocks, with one year movements, also, one month movements with winding-up designs. 2132 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa C. Votti. Geo. C. Newman. Special attention given to fine clock cases, dials, and clock trimmings, in new designs
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a case clock., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Votti [P.2006.20.46]

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

Title: Sunday Grit
Description: Die-cut trade card depicting a newsboy holding a Sunday Morning, December 6, 1885 edition of the family newspaper published in Williamsport, Pa. Central illustration depicts bust portraits of newspaper founder Dietrick Lamade and editor George W. Rianhard. Newsboy wears winter attire, including a scarf, and is covered with snow. Grit was founded in 1882 as the Saturday edition of the "Daily Sun and Banner" before the name was bought by Dietrick Lamade circa 1885., Marks in pencil on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.183]

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

Title: Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner--"I'll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I'll lick de hul firm." Compliments of J. Harley Compton, druggist, New Egypt, N.J
Description: Racist trade card promoting the druggist J. Harley Compton and depicting a caricature of an older African American man reading a notice on a country grocery store. Shows the man with a white beard and attired in a yellow brimmed hat, a long-sleeved red shirt, yellow pants with patches and held up by suspenders, and black shoes. He bends forward to read the sign on the boarded up, dilapidated store. It states in the vernacular that the Johnsing & Skinner Grocery is out of business and that, “Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me--dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing." The African American man is labeled as a creditor who says in the vernacular, “I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.” Another sign on the building states, "10 miles to de post ofice (sic)." In the right, the man’s donkey is tied to an orange post behind him. In the background, fenced in fields and trees are visible. William Carroll purchased J. Harley Compton’s drugstore in New Egypt, New Jersey in 1895., Title from item., Text printed on recto: Johnsing & Skinner Grocery. Notis—De firm of Johnsing & Skinner am resolved. Dem as owes de firm, will settle wid me—dey de firm owes will settle wid Skinner. G.W. Johnsing. Creditor of Johnsing & Skinner—“I’ll hab a hundred and fifty cents on de dollar, or I’ll lick de hul firm.”, Advertising text printed on verso promotes items manufactured by J. Harley Compton, including Compton's concentrated flavoring extracts, liquid rennet, camphor ice with glycerine, cholera and dysentery drops, and Compton's tooth powder. Dated Oct. 9th, 1883., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - C [P.9828.5679]

Title: Warner's safe rheumatic cure
Description: Trade card showing a girl attending to a man with dwarfism, seated on a chair, and with his two wrapped feet resting on an ottoman. She hands him a bottle of Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. Image also shows the box for the cure in the lower right corner. H. H. Warner, entered the patent medicine trade in 1879, and expanded his line of products to include the Safe Rheumatic Cure in 1885. The marketing of his "Safe" cure usually alluded to its benefits to persons whose health was already in peril., 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Misc. Popular Medicine Collection [P.2010.36.7]

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

Title: Major E. Newell, with Genl. Tom Thumb's Museum. H.R. Jacobs, manager
Description: Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into a painting palette. Promotes General Tom Thumb's Museum and depicts Major E. Newell attired in four costumes. Tom Thumb, born Charles Sherwood Stratton, was a little person who toured with P.T. Barnum., Advertising text printed on verso: General Tom Thumb and his charming little wife with entire troupe. Horticultural Hall positively two weeks only Sept. 25 to Oct. 7th. Every afternoon & evening. Skatorial champion. Major Newell, the impersonator; Zoe Meleke, and her performing canary birds; Whiston, humorist and great facial artist; marvelous midget; Bingham, ventriloquist & illusionist with a congress of brilliants., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Horticultural [1975.F.651]

Title: Large schooner yacht, "Henry Disston," Captain Conklin. Sloop Yacht, I. C. Covert," Captain Fisher
Description: Trade card contains vignette depicting a homestead view framed by pictorial details, including flowers and a blue bird., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.32]

Title: Irwin Keller's sample room, N.W. cor. Fifth St. & Girard Ave., Philadelphia Bar stocked with choice liquors & segars. Porter, ale & beer on draught. Smith's Old Stock and Pale Ale. Imported brandies, gins, wines, ales, porter & brown stout always on hand. Beer drawn from the keg. Open early and late. Give me a call
Description: Contains "Streets of Philadelphia" list 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. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Keller [P.2002.51.2]

Title: Jorden & Jeffries, carpenters and builders. Estimates furnished. Office, 1009 Arch Street. Orfa Jorden, residence, 4279 Main St. Germantown. A.U. Jeffries, residence, 1918 Montgomery Ave. Philada Jobbing of every description promptly attended to
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jorden [P.2006.20.55]

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

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

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

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

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