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Goods cheap!

Description: Image of an advertisement for Solomon Spaulding of Franklin, New Hampshire, who is selling goods at reduced prices due to his imminent business closure.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1848
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001617
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.

Progress. Always send to headquarters for good in our line

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for Harmon H. Kayton, trade supplier of optical goods, watch materials and jewelers' supplies in New York, New York; images of spectacles, parts, and tools such as screwdrivers, lathes, knives, tweezers, lamps, and pliers interspersed with descriptive text and prices.

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Good news for the people new goods, new prices, and lower than ever before sold in Jacksonville

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Image of a storefront advertising dry goods sold by W.T. Keyes; train locomotive pictured next to a two-story storefront with a crowd of people in front; signs on the front of the store read, "New stock of goods, brought at the lowest cash prices by W.T. Keyes," and "Prices Down."

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Hastings & Forby's cash dry goods warehouse

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for Andrew F. Hastings & William F. Forby's dry goods business located in New York, New York; image of their 5-story company building at center surrounded by text; lists of domestic goods, prints, dress goods, and linens on verso.

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Now for the new and cheap goods on the ready-pay system

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Image of a busy street intersection with the store front for Rose's Crystal Palace featured on the corner building; signs on the store read, "Produce taken in exchange," and "Dry goods & groceries," above the doors; several groups of people, including men, women, and children, are shown discussing the merits of the store with text bubbles showing their comments; horse-drawn carts and a covered wagon can be seen along the street.

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J. D. Wilson, dealer in dry goods groceries

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Image of a man in a suit and top hat driving a horse-drawn cart full of dry goods; a woman in robes stands on a rising sun printed with the words "Good times are coming 1881" (a Morgan silver dollar) and holds a banner that reads "Low prices good goods and plenty of them," and a basket in her other hand; cherub with horn of plenty at right; monster with a sign that reads "hard times" is seen in the distance; image of an elephant carrying a streaming banner with its trunk that reads "The cheap store!" printed below.

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Aiken Knitting Machine Co

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Image of an advertisement for knitting machines manufactured by Aiken Knitting Machine Company; machines for winding, plain and hosiery knitting, heeling and footing pictured with prices and descriptive text; decorative scrollwork border.

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Goods cheap!

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