DESCRIPTION: Corps of Engineers survey map shows Goat Island, Great Island, and Seavy's Island and a marked 'sailing course' through the nearby waters. Land areas identified through neat orange hachuring.
The illustration and quotation on this trade card were not unique to John Cosgrove but rather part of a stock design widely used by 19th-century printers who specialized in producing humorous or sentimental advertising cards. Lithographers commonly kept catalogs of ready-made comic scenes—like this seaside mother-and-child vignette with the line “It’s a wise child that knows its own mother at the sea side”—which merchants could customize by adding their own business imprint below. In this case, the printer simply inserted Cosgrove’s name, trade description, and Poydras Market address into the blank advertising panel at the bottom, allowing a small New Orleans fish dealer to benefit from professionally printed imagery at a fraction of the cost of commissioning original artwork.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1889
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Portsmouth Harbor
CONDITION: Very good.
Two vertical folds and a single high horizontal fold beneath title.
COLORING: Single-color . Missing upper left corner for fold as issued.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE:
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ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $45
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