Terrible Conflagration and Destruction of the Steam-boat “New Jersey,” On the River Delaware, Opposite Philadelphia, on the Night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, Between 8 and 9 O’Clock, by Which Dreadful Calamity Sixty-One Lives Were Lost (Philadelphia: Published by A. Pharazin, 103 South Street, [1856]). Crayon lithograph, hand-colored.

 

TRADE CARDS

 

Aromatic Pino Palmine Mattress Co, 915 Arch St., 113 N. Front Street, Phila. (Philadelphia: Wm. Hart, lith., ca. 1875). Chromolithograph custom trade card. Gift of Emily Phillips.

 

Burger & Co. Manufacturer of Furniture (Philadelphia: Thomas Hunter, ca. 1875). Chromolithograph custom trade card. Gift of Emily Phillips.

 

F. K. Womrath, Ladies Fine Furs, 710 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
(Philadelphia: Potsdamer & Co, 1875). Chromolithograph stock trade card. Gift of Emily Phillips.

 

John P. Twadell Shoe Store, 1212 Market Street, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Craig, Finley & Co., ca. 1878). Chromolithograph custom trade card. Gift of Emily Phillips.

 

J. Westney, Agt., Manufacturers of Baby Carriages and Velocipedes, No. 226 Dock Street (Philadelphia: Ketterlinus, ca. 1882). Chromolithograph stock trade card. Gift of Emily Phillips.

 

Trade cards included cheaper stock images or more expensive custom designs that depicted the product. 

 

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