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Hastings & Forby's cash dry goods warehouse

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1853-1858
Call number: priJLC_FASH_003729
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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Special cash price list of Warne S. Creveling, importer, manufacturers' agent & commission merchant

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for Warne S. Creveling, a crockery, glassware, and lamp merchant in New York, New York; text and price lists on recto and verso; images of three lamps on verso.

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Bullard's improved hay tedder

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for agricultural machinery distributed by Nash & Brother of New York, New York, including Bullard's improved hay tedder, Coates' lock lever hay & grain rake, and the new model Union mowing machine; images of tedder and rake worked by farmers with horses interspersed by text and price list.

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Sam'l Swartchild, 71 Washington Street, Chicago, wholesale dealer and importer

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for watches, watch materials, jewelers' findings, tools, and optical goods sold by Samuel Swartchild of Chicago, Illinois; images of tools and medals awarded for watch glass with text on recto; illustrations of gems and cameos with stock numbers on verso.

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The Hartford Manufacturing Company

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for a variety of goods produced by the Hartford Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut; images and text advertising a brass pocket oiler for skates and bicycles and a knife sharpener on recto; pocket cigarette cases and match boxes on verso.

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Stone & Keating's illustrated circular, to the trade

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Image of a single-fold advertisement for agricultural machinery and implements sold by Stone & Keating of Dallas, Texas; images of Furst & Bradley Manufacturing Co. sulky plows and "Garden City" steel plows on page 1; plow blades, sweeps, shovels, and other forged goods made by Pennsylvania Drop Forging Company pictured on pages 2-3; Fish Bros. & Co. farm wagon advertisement with image of a fish and a wagon on page 4.

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Hastings & Forby's cash dry goods warehouse

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