PUBLISHER: Published by the Arbuckle Coffee Company, New York.
MEDIUM: Chromolithograph.
DATE: 1891.
EDITION SIZE: Card size 3 x 5" (75 x 12.7 cm).
DESCRIPTION: The Arbuckle Coffee Company was founded by John and Charles Arbuckle, two brothers who helped to transform the coffee industry.<br><br> In 1881, they patented their coffee roasting machine and were the first to sell roasted beans in 1 pound packages. Making coffee far more accessible and certainly a better quality due to the uniform roasting process. Prior to that coffee beans were sold green and you have to roast your own beans.br><br In the 1880s, the Company began to include advertising trade cards with their coffee, small cards that advertised the company on one side and included a pleasing color lithographic image on the other. The Arbuckle cards were integral in making “trade” cards into “trading” cards, as the Arbuckle cards were released in numbered series. Customers were encouraged to collect complete sets and to trade duplicates. Many of the series included maps, including a state series, a city series, and a world series.<br><br> Depicted on this card is an overview of the harbor, a market scene , the Tacon Theatre and some local folks..<br><br> Geo. S. Harris & Sons (Philadelphia), Kaufmann and Strauss, and in New York City, Donaldson Brothers and Knapp & Co. printed the majority of the cards.
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CONDITION: Good condition and color.
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