Another Glance

at the Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection

Open fold out advertisement showing a white man placing a top hat on his head.

E.H. Spencer, Hats, Caps, and Furs, … 353 Main Street, Fitchburg (Boston?, ca. 1875). Lithograph. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Advertisement with wheel device showing a folding tub partially pulled down from wall.

The Mosely Folding Bath Tub Co. (Chicago: The Mosely Folding Bath Tub Co., ca. 1895). Color relief print. Wheel. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open pop up advertisement showing a 19th-century woman and man fallen on the ice, legs up in the air. Woman’s ruffled bloomers are seen. Man has a patch on his pants at crotch.

Merchant’s Gargling Oil Liniment (New York?: C.I. Boyer, 1902). Patented by Albert Operti 1892. Chromolithograph. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Turn-dial advertisement showing grandfather and grand daughter, on porch, looking at Haye’s Pump & Planter Co. heating furnace.

Hayes Pump & Planter Co. Galva, Ill., U.S.A. (Philadelphia: George S. Harris & Sons, ca. 1890). Chromolithograph. Wheel. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open pop up advertisement showing a set breakfast table.

Van Houten’s Pure Soluble Cocoa ([United States]: [C.J. Van Houten & Zoon], ca. 1890). Chromolithograph. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open fold out pop up advertisement showing a middle-aged woman placing pince nez glasses on her nose.

Look Your Best! “So Easy,” “Finger-Tip” Eye Glasses (New York: Julius King Optical Co., ca. 1910). Chromolithograph. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open foldout advertisement depicting an older woman and children filling the inside of a 19th-century woman’s button up boot.

Foldout advertisement depicting the nursery rhyme The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe ([United States], ca. 1883). Chromolithograph. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Fold out advertisement shaped liked blue jeans. Blue jean shaped advertisement opened to montage of images of men and children in Levi Strauss & Co. clothing.

Levi Strauss & Co. San Francisco, Cal. Manufacturers of Two-Horse Brand Overalls-Koveralls and Koverall Nighties (San Francisco: Levi Strauss & Co., 1915). Chromolithograph. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open fold out device. Shows white woman high kicking. Her ruffled bloomers are visible.

With Hearty Greetings. May the New Year make an E-leg-ant show of it (United Kingdom?, ca. 1895). Chromolithograph. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Verse written by Irish writer Samuel Kennedy Cowan (1815-1918).

Unfolded, foldout triangle shaped advertisement showing people with oysters in caricature.

Use O.W. Miller & Co.’s Triangle Brand Baltimore Oysters. The Seven Ages of Man. Shakespeare Illustrated (Detroit: The Calvert Lith. Co., ca. 1875). Lithograph with one tint. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Front and back cover of booklet. Pages showing illustrations of a wolf and a lobpard portrayed with a lobster head and leopard hind quarters. Lobpard composed from one page folded over another.

McLaughlin’s Wonderful Animal Book ([Chicago]: [W.F. McLaughlin & Co.], 1920). Booklet of fold-out lithographs. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open fold out advertisement showing white woman holding a window mailing envelope.

The Happy Transo Girl. Transo Envelope Co. 3512 to 3452 North Kimball Ave., Chicago ([Chicago]: [Transo Envelope Co.], 1915). Lithograph. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open fold out pop up advertisement showing a white woman holding out a check from an envelope in front of a white mailman.

Make the Mail Man the Money Man (New York: Equitable Life Insurance Society, 1925). Color photomechanical print. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Pull tab novelty card showing full-size white woman in towel standing in shower transform to kneeling, thin nude white woman.

Pull-tab novelty card depicting a transformation shower scene (United States?, ca. 1900). Color photomechanical print. Pop up. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Open fold out card next to its closed state. White man watches undergarments on clothes line from behind fence. Appeared to be a woman with her skirt flown up.

Fold out novelty card depicting a deceptive “Private. Keep Out” behind the fence scene (United States?, ca. 1895). Color photomechanical print. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.

Fold-out advertisement showing a sad dog transform to a happy one holding a biscuit in their mouth.

“O dear, I wish something would turn up.” Benton & Co.’s American Meat Dog Biscuits & Collie Cakes (London: Benton & Co., ca. 1900). Color photomechanical print. Fold out. Robert Staples Metamorphic Collection.