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3. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman, designer]. Welcome Soap Advertising Trade Cards. Boston: Curtis Davis & Co., [circa 1880-1884]. Four original lithographic trade cards for Welcome Soap brand household soap products, printed by Donaldson Brothers in Five Points, New York. Trade cards (2.625 x 4.25 inches; 75 x 110 mm.). Lithographic illustrations on the rectos, versos blank. Cards very lightly soiled with some scant, faint spotty discoloration; corners softened. One card with bruises in the corners, likely from adhesive removal, also residue in the center of two cards (including the one with bruised corners). Very good. (#10351).
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4. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman, designer]. Welcome Soap Advertising Trade Card. Boston: Curtis Davis & Co., circa 1880-1884]. Original lithographic trade card for Welcome Soap brand household soap products, printed by Donaldson Brothers in Five Points, New York. Trade card (2.625 x 4.25 inches; 75 x 110 mm.). Lithographic illustration on the recto, verso blank. General light soiling with a few trivial splotches; top and left edge with some dark discoloration; corners barely softened. Verso with the sheen and faint discoloration of old adhesive residue, but no apparent bruising. Very good. (#10352).
$25.00
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"Charlotte Perkins Gilman enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence to study art in 1878. While in Providence, Gilman created and sold art works for advertising trade cards... [S]everal cards with Gilman’s illustrations ... feature figures with different flowers encircling their heads" ("Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Artist and Illustrator." History of Medicine, U. S. National Library of Medicine).
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5. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman, designer]. Three Ages of Woman. [Providence: circa 1880]. Five (of six) original lithographic trade cards, issued blank and over-printed by Gould's Corset Store from Providence, Rhode Island. Trade cards (2.625 x 4.125 inches; 75 x 105 mm.). Lithographic illustrations on the rectos, versos blank, margins trimmed. Very slight horizontal curl; edges very lightly worn; corners barely softened; images very faintly dulled with a touch of soiling. Versos slightly soiled with some light offsetting. Very good.(#10353).
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6. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman, designer]. Advertising Trade Card. [Providence: circa 1880]. Original lithographic trade card (one from a series of six), issued blank and over-printed on the verso by Professor Fair's Hair Care from Providence, Rhode Island. Trade cards (2.625 x 4.125 inches; 75 x 105 mm.). Lithographic illustration, margins trimmed. Very slight horizontal curl; corners softened; faintly darkened toward the upper-left corner, a few other minor blemishes or soil spots. Verso bruised from the removal of adhesives, some faint discoloration. Very good. (#10354).
$30.00
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References:
Kenneth Florey. Women's Suffrage Memorabilia. Jefferson: 2013. p. 14
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Living of... An Autobiography. Redditch: 2014, accessed online.
Kevin Mac Donnell. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Trade Card Design" on the
ABAA website, originally published in The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly 8:3 (Fall) 2001
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Artist and Illustrator." History of Medicine, U. S. National Library of Medicine.
nlm.nih.gov.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Digital Collection. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
website link.
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