Advertisement depicting a "Holland Laundry" horse-drawn delivery wagon traveling down the road from an estate. Scene also includes a roadside sign with the firm's logo on display., 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. 1905]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.33]
Mail order catalog containing illustrations of female models attired in women's summer wear, including suits, jumper dresses, shirtwaists, coats, hats, undergarments, corset covers, underskirts, petticoats, nightgowns, and "Misses' and Children's Jackets." Several of the models are grouped in scenes with thematic backgrounds, including parlors, a park, and street scene. Also contains promotional and instructional text detailing the "supremacy" of the Hofmeister garments, how to place an order, payment terms, and additional fees for "Extra Large Garments;" detailed descriptions of the clothing; style numbers; and prices., Accompanied by original illustrated envelope. Ilustration depicts three well-dressed ladies at a summer resort., Cover illustration depicts two ladies in formal summer wear disembarking from a horse-drawn carriage. The women's attire includes embellished hats, a long cape, and an umbrella., 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., Order blank and post cards inserted in catalog.
Date
[1908]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Hofmeister [105358.O & 105358.O.a]
Illustrated trade card depicting a woman wearing a red swimsuit standing on the beach watching the water approach her. Men and women sit in the sand in the background. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The firm changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1910]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - San-knit-ary [P.9761]
Illustrated humorous trade card depicting a man with a long beard toting a bag and hat in his right hand about to open the door to enter a bathroom. The card opens up to reveal a disheveled-looking man in suspenders, perhaps one who has never seen an indoor bathroom, washing his face in the toilet. A sign reading, "Don't blow out the gas," hangs on the opposite wall above the bathtub., Copyright, 1901, by W.H. Carpenter., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on on verso includes numbers and prices: 500, $7.00 ; 1000, $12.00, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Selma Kessler.
Date
c1901
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Misc [P.2008.21.3]
Advertisement for the Antikamnia Chemical Company established around 1890. Depicts the skull-headed company icon "Funny Bones," wearing glasses, attired in a suit, and holding an "AK" tablet in his hand, and shrugging. Antikamnia (opposed to pain) was a toxic and addictive medicine often mixed with codeine and quinine. Funny Bones was designed by pharmacist and doctor Louis Crucius., Advertising text and list of "Depots" printed on verso. Text reads: A World's Tribute. Progress. Triumph. Some Copy Our "Ads," Others imitate our ideas; Some Copy Our Style, Others Imitate Our Packages; But Copy or Imitate "Antikamnia." They Can't!! The Monogram "AK" Differentiates the Genuine Tablets from All Others and Precludes Substitution. Depot locations include Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Madrid, and Cairo., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of William H. Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Advertisements [P.2010.37.63]
Comic genre scene showing a man seated in a dentist's chair. A boy has just relaxed the scarf he positioned around the patient's neck, which was used to restrain the patient while his tooth was being pulled. The dentist, attired in a silk robe and pileus, shows the patient the extracted tooth. A sign reading, "S.B. Smith, dentist," hangs on the wall., Title printed on mount below image., Distributor supplied by cataloger., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See complementary stereograph "Extracting Teeth" [stereo - unid. - Genre (P.2009.13.3)]., Gift of William Helfand., Sears Roebuck & Company issued the Metropolitan Series from 1905-1920.
Date
[photographed ca. 1870, printed ca. 1905]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2009.13.4]
