Advertising card containing a montage of captioned vignettes depicting the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Vignettes show the Main Building (Society of Arts); Poultry Agricultural Hall; Cattle Sheds; Restaurant; and Music Stand. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", Advertising text on verso: 31st. Pennsylvania State Fair, 1885. The spacious building and fine grounds, Broad St. and Lehigh Ave., Phila'a. for all the purposes of a grand exhibition of American industry, In [sic] all its departments, are unsurpassed in the United States. The lofty Main Building and its Annexes are devoted to General Machinery and Manufactured Goods, under the management of the Society of arts, office and books of entry, 411 N. 18th St., George W. Fryer, secretary. The Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry, as well as other Live Stock Buildings, are devoted to special agricultural machinery products and manufactures. Under the management of the Penna. State Agricultural Society, Office and Books of Entry, N. E. Cor., 18th and Market Sts. D. W. Seiler, Secretary, Cheap Excursion Fares on all railroads entering Philadelphia. Low special rates of transportation on all objects entered for exhibtion. Trains run to Fair Grounds without change. Books of entry close Sept. 16., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 288, See POSP 239, Free Library of Philadlephia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date
[1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia. | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [P.2014.41.1]
View of the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds enclosed by a wood fence. In the foreground, outside of the grounds, pedestrian and street traffic is visible. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel in the street near pedestrians, including a woman walking her dog on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn omnibuses arrive at and depart from the multiple entrances to the fair at Fifteenth Street near a Philadelphia & Reading Railroad train arriving at the "Special Station." Within the grounds, visitors stroll on the paths between and enter the several exhibition buildings, including the Main Building (center), Restaurant, House of Public Comfort, Carriage and Wagon House, and Poultry House. Agricultural implements, fountains, and shrubbery adorn the grounds. In the background, the cattle sheds, rows of horse stalls, and the Executive Offices line the outskirts of the grounds in back of which trains on the Connecting Railroad and Pennsylvania Rail Railroad tracks travel past. Also shows the entrances, train station, and buildings decorated with flags. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", pdcp00044, Not in Wainwright., Key to buildings (left to right) printed below the image: Cattle Sheds. Connecting Railroad. Horse Stalls. Exercise and Parade Drive. Restaurant. Main Building. House of Public Comfort. Horse Stalls. Carriage and Wagon House. Pennsylvania R.R. Executive Offices. Fifteenth St. Entrances. Philadelphia & Reading R.R. Agricultural Building. Poultry House. Special Station P. & R.R.R., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 239, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date
c1884
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals
Lively advertising print for the dime museum operated by W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell 1883-1885. Shows throngs of people entering the mansard-roofed building, heavily adorned in signage and over 40 pictures of the museum's performers, at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch Streets. Signs read "Specially Adapted for Ladies & Children: Open Daily from 1 to 10 P.M."; "Curiosities Constantly Arriving From All Parts of the World"; and "Philadelphia's Pleasure Palace Containing Countless Curiosities / Peerless Parlor Peformances." Other signs announce the hours of operation, the museum's purpose for the "instruction and amusement" of ladies and children, and the admission price - 10 cents. Performer's pictures primarily depict human curiosities and include tattooed men and women, a bearded lady, clowns, a two-headed woman, little people, an armless man, a man eating a slate, exotic and native costumed figures, as well as a magician and a ventriloquist. Graphics also show exotic animals and birds. Building also adorned with flags promoting the museum and its attractions, including "birds, beasts, and mechanical marvels." In the street, three street cars (nos. 44, 33, and 26) and one wagon, advertising Hagar & Campbell's, travel and stop in front of the museum. Wagon is composed of billboards illustrated with an image of seven women with floor-length hair and captioned "Seven Wonders of the World.", Also shows adjacent buildings, a crowd of people at the side of the museum, and pedestrians and passersby in the street, on the sidewalk, and near and looking at the street vehicles. Print also contains portraits of owners W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell in the upper corners. By 1884, Campbell and Hagar were officers in the Barnum and London show managing "Privileges." Campbell stayed with Barnum until at least the early 1890s., Date inferred from title., Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles and Robert Staples., POSP 286
Date
[1883]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Advertisements - H [P.2013.82]
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]
Small display card depicting a montage of children's and baby's faces, heads, and busts, including one African American child. Two children, prominently shown in the foreground, hold hands, and a cigar. Some children wear bonnets and ribbons on their heads. A few children wear outfits with lace collars and shoulder straps with bows. Most of the "little orphans" smile, while others cry and frown. Michel established his cigar business as a partnership in Decatur in 1858. He predominantly operated as a sole proprietor from 1863 to 1903. His cigars were known for their standard of excellence., Contains hole for hanging in upper edge., Advertising text on verso: Smoke the "Little Orphan" cigar. Best on Earth for 5 Cents. Manufactured by Jos. Michl., Decatur, Ill., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., George S. Harris started his printing business in 1847, and in 1872, he partnered with his son George T. Harris and renamed the business George Harris & Son.
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Michel [P.2013.59]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Shows the American eagle clutching an olive branch and arrows atop of a globe positioned to display the Atlantic Ocean. American flags border the globe and a suspension bridge, probably the Brooklyn Bridge, is visible in the background. Vessels travel underneath the bridge., Printed and inscribed on recto: No. B605 E.L. 3/2 Yds. 60 Ins., 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 - Labels [P.2011.10.102]
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]
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]
Label containing a scene showing two dogs near tall grasses and plants in a fenced pasture. Trees are visible in the background., Printed on recto: No. 6214. Also blank. $12.50 per 1000. $1.35 per 100., 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 - Labels [P.2011.10.97]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Cigar box label containing a bust-length portrait of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow partially framed in garland., Trade Mark., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.111]
Cigar box label showing an American eagle in flight and clutching a spear in the light of dawn. The dome of the U.S. Capitol is visible in the background., Letters of title depicted as feathers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.112]
Tobacco label for the firm (originally Arnett & Wemple) in operation 1876-1886. Shows a half-length portrait of Washington in winter attire, including a bonnet overlaid with a muslin wrap. Also includes ornamental cornices., Title annotated in ink: & Ellyson., 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., Empire Lithographing and Engraving Company operated under this firm name 1879-1884.
Date
[ca. 1884]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.115]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Cigarette card promoting the Honest Long Cut brand of the American Tobacco Company. Depicts a view of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, also known as Spring Garden Street Bridge, built over the Schuylkill River from 1874-1875 by the Keystone Bridge Company after the designs of engineer Jacob H. Linville. Demolished in 1964. Bridge adorned with ornate ironwork, including lampposts and fencing., Title printed on recto and 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
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.34]
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]
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]
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]
Textile label showing a half-length portrait of a girl in traditional Normandy costume. She holds a small bouquet of flowers to her chin., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 17491-2. Yds. 41 2., Inscribed on recto: U 1/2/10., 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 - Labels [P.2011.10.109]
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]
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]
