Printed sample label., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Label, possibly for tobacco, containing a scene showing a white man with sword in hand threatening a black man on the ground, his sword laying at his side. The men wear Arabian and Middle Eastern- looking garb, including turbans, tunics, and sandals. Imagery possibly alludes to the J. T. Haine's play "The French Spy" first performed circa 1860., 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. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.169]
Label for the rolling metal and drawing wire manufactory showing an American eagle framed by an ornamented border. Border includes pictorial details depicting flowers and vinery. Wallace & Sons, a brass manufactory established in 1848 in Ansonia, Ct., operated until 1895., Printed on flaps: Perfect heads & points. Spring temper., 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. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.110]
Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]
Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]
Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]
Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]
Contains six patriotic and allegorical label designs. Imagery includes the allegorical and mythical figures Liberty, Bounty (Ceres), Mercury, and the "Good Shepherd"; a zouave soldier; a Native American princess on horse-back; a man and woman working in a textile mill; cornucopias; American flags; American eagle; and floral and filigree borders., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.26a]
Stereograph box label containing a genre scene showing a family looking at stereographs in a parlor. An open box and stereographs rest on a table surrounded by the family. A man looks through a hand-held stereoscope and a woman looks through one on a stand., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on mount: Label from top of box in which was sold stereoptican views from the collection of John McAllister, Sr. (d.1878) noted optical house, Phila. Bought from Mrs. John McAllister, Media, 1951., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 208, Library of Congress: PR 13 CN 2001: 068 Shakspere
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PR 13 CN 2001: 068 Shakspere
Advertisement label showing an exterior view of the clothing store. Several cloaks are displayed in the storefront windows. A female clerk helps a customer at the entrance. Pedestrian traffic, predominately women wearing cloaks, pass on the sidewalk. Proctor relocated his store from 708 to 902 Chestnut Street in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 287, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7, LCP holds engraved copy of advertisement. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses (7)1322.F.453i].
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7
Printed sample tag with string., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Printed sample label with string., Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Shows the East Front and grounds of the Capitol building, including the cast-iron dome completed in 1866 and landscaped gardens. Also contains the vignette, profile portrait of a Native American man in a headdress, and a garland frame., Title supplied by cataloger., Embossed and stamped on recto: No. 2202. Yds., 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. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.172]
Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
Date
ca. 1862-ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
Date
ca. 1862-ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
