Preview
Geography
Dayton, Ohio
Culture
American
Medium
Photo-lithographic view card
Dimensions
4 3/4 × 3 3/16 in. (12 × 8.1 cm)
Credit Line
Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2015
Accession Number
2015.560
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Within image, upper center: "ADRIAN MAUSOLEUM, ROME."
Below image, lower left: "44."
Back of card, upper half, center: "NEW SERIES PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIC VIEW CARDS WITH / JERSEY COFFEE. / HANDSOME—HISTORICAL—INSTRUCTIVE. / ONE HUNDRED VIEWS. Embracing Columbian Exposition / Buildings, Grandest Natural Scenery in the world, and finest Monuments of / Ancient and Modern Architecture. / ONE CARD IN EACH ONE POUND PACKAGE. / No two cards alike in an single case of Coffee. This card belongs to the / Series. / USE JERSEY COFFEE / and secure this valuable collection of cards for our home. / A Handsome Picture, suitable to frame, mailed free to any address, on / return of 25 trade marks cut from face of JERSEY COFFEE wrappers/ / JERSEY COFEE is avsolutely free from glazing and other adultera- / tions. Try it. / DAYTON SPICE MILLS CO., / Sole Manufacturers. DAYTON, OHIO, U.S.A."
Back of card, lower half, center: "THE ADRIAN MAUSOLEUM is the only very ancient / structure in Rome which seems to-day in good repair. / It was built by the Emperor Hadrian, who occupied the im- / perial throne from the year 117 to the year 138. The only / object of the building was for a sepulcher for himself. It is / approached by a most beautiful bridge, called the Bridge of the / Angel, which is adorned with numerous beautiful pieces of / statuary. The Emperor was noted for his travels through- / out his dominion which covered the known world, and his / travels were everywhere marked by the erection of beautiful / buildings. For generations it had been customary for the Em- / perors to build in Rome, each for himself, some great structure / to mark his memory. Many of these, in Hadrian's time, had / fallen into decay; he repaired them. He suppressed a mighty / uprising among the Jews, who, under the leadership of a false / Christ names Barchochebas, tried to reclaim the land of Pales- / tine which had been deserted since the invasion of Titus He / built a shrine to Jupiter among the ruins of the temple of Solo- / mon and dedicated another to Venus, on Mount Calvary. / No. 44."
Creator Biography
Dayton Spice Mills Co., American, ca. 19th–20th centuries (publisher).
Description
Slightly larger than a playing card, a black and white photograph of the Adrian Mausoleum, more commonly known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian or Castel Sant'Angelo, in Rome. The description on the back indicates that this is number 44 of "One Hundred Views" in a series of photo-lithographic view cards that accompanied each one-pound package of Dayton Spice Mills Co.'s Jersey Coffee. It also indicated that this card, which is "handsome," "historical," and "instructive," could be mailed for free to any address "on return of 25 trade marks cut from face of JERSEY COFFEE wrappers."