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- Title
- Imperméables, Au Roi du Caoutchouc
- Description
- Racist trade card promoting Roi du Caoutchouc's trench coats and depicting a bust-length portrait caricature of a fashionable black man. The man is depicted with exaggerated facial features, including a broad smile and long eye lashes. He is attired in a gold, bejeweled crown; gold hoop earrings; a trench coat with the collar raised; and gray turtleneck. Roi du Caoutchouc was a Belgium manufacturer of raincoats and trenchcoats in business originally in the 1920s. Leopold Trepper, a Polish Soviet intelligence agent, acquired the company in 1938 and launched a Brussels operation that expanded into an import-export business called the Foreign Excellent Trenchcoat Company. Trepper used the firm as a front for espionage. In 1940, during World War II, the Germans assumed control of the company., Title from item., Place of publication deduced from place of operation of advertised business., Date deduced from the history of the advertised business., Text printed on recto: Imperméables, Au Roi du Caoutchouc., Advertising text printed on verso: Trouver mieux? Impossible! Les imperméables et gabardines au roi du caoutchouc sont reconnus les meilleurs, les plus élégants, les moins chers. Apercu de quelques prix: Imperméables très solides depuis 45 frs. Trench-coats entièrement doublés et huilés depuis 75 frs. Gabardines entièrement doublées 1/2 soie depuis 95 frs. 55 succursales en Belgique. Bruxelles 103, Boulevard Ad. Max. 161, Chaussée de Waterloo. 141, Rue haute. 51, Rue de Flandre. 15, Chaussée de Louvain. Translation of advertising text: Find better? Impossible! The rubber king's raincoats and garbardines are recognized as the best, the most elegant, the cheapest. Preview of some prices: Very solid waterproofs for 45 frs. Trench-coats fully lined and oiled for 75 frs. Gabardines fully lined 1/2 silk for 95 frs. 55 branches in Belgium. Brussels 103, Boulevard Ad. Max. 161, Waterloo Causeway. 141 High Street. 51 Flanders Street. 15, Leuven Causeway., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Au Roi du Caoutchouc [P.2017.95.9]
- Title
- Philadelphia -- The new Delaware River Bridge -- Camden. We insure anything. Try us. This is a darn good blotter. T. Yorke Smith, 507 Federal St., Camden N.J. Real estate insurance. Both phones 316
- Description
- Advertising blotter depicting the Delaware River Bridge (i.e., Benjamin Franklin Bridge) spanning the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned by the Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission of New Jersey and the Delaware River Bridge and Tunnel Commission of Pennsylvania, the bridge was built 1922-1926 and designed by architect Paul Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1926]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Smith [P.9577.19]
- Title
- [Chamberlin weather strips trade cards]
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards featuring exterior views of buildings constructed with Chamberlin weather strips, including "Shriner's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.," "Gillingham & Hynes built terraces, Philadelphia, Pa.," and "Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa." Trade cards also contain the names of the architects and contractors, including Phillip H. Johnson and Raymond A. Raff Co. (Shriner's Hospital, 1926); Gillingham & Hynes (terraces); and York & Sawyer (Pittsburgh, Pa.), E.P. Mellon (New York), and W. T. Grange Construction Co. (Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital). Views surrounded by ornate border and flanked by vignettes of Chamberlin products, including sill and side strips for sliding windows; interlocking center for in-opening casements; brass sill--outopening casements; Chamberlin at D.H. sill; interlocking equipment for outside transoms; and corrugation windows., Title supplied by cataloger., Playing card designs printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1930]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chamberlin [P.9450.6-8]