TGI #FlickrFriday This circa 1895 Grand-Stand Base Ball gameboard (top) features an advertisement for Pluto Water, which claimed to be “America’s favorite physic for constipation”. The gameboard was the inspiration for Philadelphia-based artist Jeff Kilpatrick’s bottle-label (below). Both objects were featured in Ephemera! : a 2013 mini-exhibition at the Library Company that displayed contemporary art inspired by Library Company collections. The exhibition was curated by Concetta Barbera and Christian Patchell, and can be viewed here: http://www.librarycompany.org/cartoonist/index.htm
Grand-stand baseball [graphic] :
[French Lick, Ind.?]
[ca. 1895]