{"product_id":"antique-1930s-penn-treaty-label-philadelphia-pa-patriotic","title":"Antique 1930s Penn Treaty Can Label 🤝 from Philadelphia","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho Packed Penn Treaty Lima Beans? 🤝 Penn Treaty Tiny Green Lima Beans\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\" x 4 1\/2\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91ScOUYko_0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Penn himself, long hair and lace collar, on a can of lima beans from Philadelphia, with the words \u003cem\u003e\"Unbroken Faith\"\u003c\/em\u003e in the middle. This is an antique 1930s Penn Treaty can label, 11\" x 4 1\/2\", with slight to minor wear. A few of mine show a little more age than others, so look over the pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔍 What's on it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe label wraps the whole can, so the brand appears twice. On one side, \u003cstrong\u003ePENN TREATY\u003c\/strong\u003e in red over a portrait of a young William Penn with long brown hair and a white lace cravat, and \u003cstrong\u003eTINY GREEN LIMA BEANS\u003c\/strong\u003e underneath. On the other, \u003cstrong\u003ePENN TREATY BRAND\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS 1 LB. 4 OZ.\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a glass bowl heaped with bright green lima beans. In the middle panel, a scroll reading \u003cem\u003e\"Unbroken Faith\"\u003c\/em\u003e with a bundle of feathers, a peace pipe and a quill pen, and in gold, \u003cstrong\u003ePACKED FOR QUAKER CITY WHOLESALE GROCERY CO. INC., PHILA., PENNA.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gold chain borders run along the top and bottom, and down at the foot, the printer: \u003cstrong\u003eCALVERT LITH. CO. DETROIT\u003c\/strong\u003e. The back is plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🌳 The treaty under the elm\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name comes from Philadelphia's favorite founding story. In \u003cstrong\u003e1682\u003c\/strong\u003e, the story goes, William Penn met \u003cstrong\u003eTamanend\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003eLenape\u003c\/strong\u003e under a great elm at \u003cstrong\u003eShackamaxon\u003c\/strong\u003e, on the Delaware River in what's now Fishtown, and they promised each other lasting friendship. It's called the Treaty of Shackamaxon, the Great Treaty or just Penn's Treaty. No original document of the meeting survives and historians still argue over the details, but the legend has stuck for more than three hundred years. The old elm blew down in a storm in \u003cstrong\u003e1810\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the spot is Penn Treaty Park today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat \"Unbroken Faith\" on the label comes straight out of the legend. In \u003cstrong\u003e1733\u003c\/strong\u003e the French writer \u003cstrong\u003eVoltaire\u003c\/strong\u003e praised Penn's treaty as the only one between the Native peoples and the Christians that was never sworn to and never broken. The feathers, the peace pipe and the quill tell the same story in pictures: the Lenape, the pipe of peace and Penn's pen. The most famous picture of the scene is \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin West\u003c\/strong\u003e's painting \u003cem\u003ePenn's Treaty with the Indians\u003c\/em\u003e (1771–72), which West meant as an allegory more than a record: Penn was only 38 when he arrived, a lot younger than the stout gentleman West painted. The young Penn on this label is a lot closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🖨️ Calvert of Detroit and the Quaker City grocers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCalvert Lithographing Company\u003c\/strong\u003e was founded in Detroit in \u003cstrong\u003e1864\u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003eThomas Calvert\u003c\/strong\u003e, an Englishman, and by 1866 it was printing in color: portraits, maps, posters and labels. It grew into one of the best-known lithographers in the country, printing for tobacco companies and the Michigan seed trade, and it kept going for a century, sold to Chicago investors in 1950 and folded into the Canadian printer Lawson \u0026amp; Jones in 1970. The beans were packed for the \u003cstrong\u003eQuaker City Wholesale Grocery Co.\u003c\/strong\u003e of Philadelphia, \"Quaker City\" being the town's old nickname, from Penn and his Quakers, which is why a Philadelphia grocer put Penn on the can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🏡 Display\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one is a great piece of Philadelphia history for the wall, framed long so you can see both sides of the wrap, and a perfect gift for anyone from Philly or with Pennsylvania roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld labels like this are a reminder of a bygone era, and the lithography on them is unparalleled even to this day, in my opinion. Museums have galleries of them, and more and more collectors are seeking them out to preserve their history. 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