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Unidentified artist
Trade card for Conway's Laundry Soap of Philadelphia showing a a photographer trying to quiet a crying baby with a noise maker and a jumping jack toy.
1876-1878 (ca)
Trade card
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/86553
Printed by National Bureau of Engraving, 435 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
"National Bureau of Engraving and Manufacturing Company, the commercially-oriented lithographic and printing firm established in 1876 by partners Joseph Carpenter, R. Evans Peterson, Charles E. Mass, and Henry Pennington (also of The Philadelphia Bank Note Company), operated in Philadelphia until 1909. The firm, created for the purpose of "designing and printing labels, show cards, bonds, checks, drafts, and other work and engraving when that process was required," originally operated from Second and Gold Streets, then 435 Chestnut Street, and from 510-512 Pine Street by 1878."
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