[The Joe Freedman collection of Philadelphia ephemera]  [graphic]. 

 - United States ,  [ca. 1720-ca. 1950, bulk ca. 1850-ca. 1900] UNITED STATES. 
 - 393 prints :  chiefly engravings, lithographs, and relief prints ;  101 x 74 cm (39.75 x 29 in.) or smaller. 11 photographs :  chiefly albumen ;  14 x 17 cm (5.5 x 6.5 in.) or smaller. 
 -  Organized within 12 series: Oversize; Trade Cards; Photographs; Tickets, etc.; Advertisements; Certificates, etc.; Labels; Miscellaneous; Views; View sets; Bills of Lading; and Maps.  Chiefly arranged by accession number. 
<br/><br/> Title supplied by cataloger.  Various artists, engravers, printers, and publishers, including American Bank Note Company, Breuker & Kessler, Childs & Inman, George W. Crosscup, Craig, Finley & Co., John Dainty, Frederick Gutekunst, George S. Harris, Thomas Hunter, J. W. Hurn, E. Ketterlinus, King & Baird, Lehman & Bolton, Longacre & Co., Louderbach & Hoffman, Henry B. McIntire, Robert Newell, Herbert Pullinger, John Schofield, James Smither, James Thackara, and Young & Duross.  Several of the prints contain annotations and manuscript notes. 
<br/><br/> Collection of ephemera and prints primarily documenting Philadelphia economy, society, and culture from the late 18th to early 20th century, including advertising prints and advertisements, trade cards, bills of lading, certificates, bill and letterheads, souvenirs, tickets, views, and maps. Trade cards and bills of lading form the bulk of the collection and several souvenir reprints of Birch’s “View of Philadelphia” also comprise a significant number. Businesses and industries significantly represented include freight shipping, dry goods stores, the pharmaceutical industry, silver and coppersmiths, home furnishing stores, carriage manufactories, and booksellers. Collection also contains a number of early trade cards (pre-1860), including a ca. 1769 trade card for cloth merchant, later Continental Congressman Francis Hopkinson. Other items of note include a collection of pre-1805 property maps of Southwark; a ca. 1830 proof of banknotes printed in German for The Western Bank of Philadelphia; and an early lithographic view of Lower Dublin Academy printed by Childs & Inman in 1830.  Graphics include vignettes of modes of transportation; exteriors of storefronts and manufactories; cityscape and marine views; female allegorical, floral, and animal imagery; city landmarks; and ornamented type. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Lower Dublin Academy.<br/>Western Bank of Philadelphia.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Animals.<br/>Bills of lading--Forms.<br/>Booksellers and bookselling--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Business enterprises--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Carriage manufacturers and dealers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Carriages & coaches.<br/>Coppersmiths--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Dry goods stores--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Flowers.<br/>Freight forwarders--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Home furnishings stores--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Pharmaceutical industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Silversmiths--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Storefronts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Textile industry--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.<br/>Women.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Southwark (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Advertisements--1760-1900.<br/>Albumen prints--1860-1880.<br/>Billheads--1810-1900.<br/>Certificates--1790-1900.<br/>Engravings--1760-1900.<br/>Labels--1840-1860.<br/>Lithographs--1840-1900.<br/>Maps--1800-1910.<br/>Relief prints--1800-1920.<br/>Souvenirs--1890-1920.<br/>Tickets--1860-1930.<br/>Trade cards--1760-1920.<br/>Views--1820-1940.