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Title: Applegate & Co. Publishers, booksellers & stationers, no. 43 Main Str. Cincinnati Copying presses and books. Blank books made to any pattern, paged, with or without printed headings. Notes, drafts, letter cap & note papers. Envelopes. Inks, pens, bankers cases. Sealing wax. Mucilage &c. bills of lading, railroad receipts, dray tickets, billheads, checks, drafts, notes, & cards printed to order. Publishers of: Clarks Commentary, Dicks Works, Rollins Anct. History, Plutarch's Lives, The Spectator, Webb's Monitor, &c
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1859-60 containing an allegorical vignette and pictorial details framing a calendar depicted as an architectural monument. Vignette shows a female figure, a harp at her side, drawing on a sketch pad as she looks above to a slightly open curtain. Landscape is visible in the distance. Pictorial details depict vinery and symbols of the arts and book and stationery trade, including a globe, paint palette, quill pens, compass, and the advertised books published by Applegate & Co., Inscribed in upper right corner: 55., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See also proof copy containing pasted overlay of vignette of a locomotive [P.9349.216a].
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.37b]

Title: Ehrgott & Forbriger, practical lithographers. s.w. cor. of 4th & Walnut sts., Cincinnati, O
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1859 containing patriotic and allegorical vignettes and pictorial details framing a calendar depicted as an architectural monument. Vignettes and details show the American eagle, shield, and flag; symbols of art and industry, including a paint palette, sculpture, telescope, and smoke stacks and chimneys; allegorical figures representing manufacturing, agriculture, and the seasons; and a central vignette containing a fruit display in front of drapery. Ehrgott & Forbriger, the premier Cincinnati firm established in 1856 by Peter E. Ehrgott and Adolphus F. Fobriger, operated under that firm name until 1860 when changed to Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., Inscribed lower left corner: 54., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Ehrgott & Forbriger
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.37a]

Title: Ehrgott & Forbriger, practical lithographers. s.w. cor. of 4th & Walnut sts., Cincinnati, O
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1859 containing patriotic and allegorical vignettes and pictorial details framing a calendar depicted as an architectural monument. Vignettes and details show the American eagle, shield, and flag; symbols of art and industry, including a paint palette, sculpture, telescope, and smoke stacks and chimneys; allegorical figures representing manufacturing, agriculture, and the seasons; and a central vignette containing a fruit display in front of drapery. Ehrgott & Forbriger, the premier Cincinnati firm established in 1856 by Peter E. Ehrgott and Adolphus F. Fobriger, operated under that firm name until 1860 when changed to Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., Inscribed lower left corner: 54., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Ehrgott & Forbriger
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.37a]

Title: Ehrgott & Forbriger, practical lithographers. s.w. cor. of 4th & Walnut sts., Cincinnati, O
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1859 containing patriotic and allegorical vignettes and pictorial details framing a calendar depicted as an architectural monument. Vignettes and details show the American eagle, shield, and flag; symbols of art and industry, including a paint palette, sculpture, telescope, and smoke stacks and chimneys; allegorical figures representing manufacturing, agriculture, and the seasons; and a central vignette containing a fruit display in front of drapery. Ehrgott & Forbriger, the premier Cincinnati firm established in 1856 by Peter E. Ehrgott and Adolphus F. Fobriger, operated under that firm name until 1860 when changed to Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co., Inscribed lower left corner: 54., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Ehrgott & Forbriger
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.37a]

Title: E. Ketterlinus & Co., plain and ornamental printer and lithographers, no. 40 North Fourth St., Philad'a Counting house almanac for 1852
Description: Advertisement calendar, containing an embossed and gilted border of classical imagery, for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Imagery includes scrolls; urns of flowers; cherubs playing instruments, riding fish, and holding up pedestals; and the sea god Poseidon in his chariot pulled by horses and a merman. Also contains advertising text promoting the products of the firm. Includes show cards, color glazed papers, tin foil, bronzes, bills of lading, fancy gilt dry good tickets, and hat and cap tips in addition to fancy embossed and gilt labels "always on hand." Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 20, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 614 K 512a
Creator: E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 614 K 512a

Title: E. Ketterlinus & Co., letter-press and lithographic printers, no. 40 North Fourth St., first door above the Merchant's Hotel, Philadelphia Counting house almanac for 1854
Description: Advertisement calendar, containing an embossed and gilted border of patriotic and religious imagery, for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Imagery includes gothic architectural details; cherubs; the American eagle, shield, and flags; and an angel and a knight elevated on pedestals. Also contains advertising text promoting the firm's "Stock of Embossed and Illuminated perfumery, fabric, wine and liquor labels, show, business, and visiting cards" in addition to "Card and Job Printing, in all its branches, executed in a superior style, at the shortest notice. " Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 19, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 614 K 512b
Creator: E. Ketterlinus & Co.
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 614 K 512b

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