Visual Materials

Treasure Japan tea : full value : the pure tea leaves

Description: Image of a four-panel label for Treasure Brand's "perfection canister" for tea; geometric borders surround four panels, two featuring text about tea in the "great tea-producing countries of China and Japan" and its storage; two panels feature branches behind a crest with a central medallion showing the goddess Columbia, wearing a headpiece labeled "Liberty," encircled by thirteen stars and the date "1882."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1882
Call number: priJLC_BEV_001846
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Sunbeam Japan tea

Visual Materials

Image of a four-panel tea can label; cherubic child holding a torch and canister of tea on two panels; advertising text and ship at sea on two panels; decorative botanical border.

priJLC_BEV_003488

Schilling's blossom tea

Visual Materials

Image of a four-panel tea canister label; bust-length portrait of a girl in a mob cap drinking tea, cat, and tea branch in flower on two panels; advertising text and decorative border on two panels.

priJLC_BEV_003489

Horniman’s Pure Tea the Leaf Not Coloured

Visual Materials

Image of a view of the storefront of Horniman's Tea Warehouse in London, England, showing workers loading boxes of tea onto a horse-drawn cart; Chinese architectural frame around the view with a dragon and Chinese men and women in balconies dressed in traditional ethnic costume.

priJLC_BEV_000670

Hercules 140 paragon

Visual Materials

Image of umbrella box label with four panels with gold scrollwork borders; two panels feature a central star with clouds and a burst of rays radiating outward; left panel features a large image of Hercules with a club with a scene of cherubs under an umbrella below and a man and woman walking under an umbrella in a rainy park-like setting above; panel second from right features a celestial female goddess or angel-like figure with white robe and streaming hair surrounded by flowers, rays and cherubs with garlands and a pair of cherubs under an umbrella below.

priJLC_FASH_001671

Teas only. Lovell, Pomeroy & Co

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet explaining the growth and curing of teas sold by the Lovell, Pomeroy & Co. tea dealers of New York, New York; image of tea being harvested and cured in Japan at top center of leaflet; letter from Lovell, Pomeroy & Co. to their customers on verso.

priJLC_BEV_004580

The great American tea company...price list of teas

Visual Materials

Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising teas sold by the Great American Tea Company of New York, New York; price list on verso; encapsulated with envelope enclosure with 1865 calendar printed on recto.

priJLC_BEV_004579

Treasure Japan tea : full value : the pure tea leaves

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Sunbeam Japan tea

Schilling's blossom tea

Horniman’s Pure Tea the Leaf Not Coloured

Hercules 140 paragon

Teas only. Lovell, Pomeroy & Co

The great American tea company...price list of teas