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Hats, caps, and furs!

Description: Image of an advertisement for John Cook, manufacturer of hats, caps and furs, in gold print on a blue background with filigree border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840s
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001627
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.

The people's hat and cap store has the best assorted stock in Schuylkill County

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Image of a bear walking upright carrying a cage-like container of hats on its back with a top hat, muff, and umbrella in its arms and a sign advertising assorted stock in a raised paw; gloves and more hats litter the ground at the bear's feet.

priJLC_FASH_001660

Washing crystal ... ball blue

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Image of an advertisement for washing crystals and ball blue bluing manufactured by C.H. Fischer & Company; women and children in flowing robes do laundry outdoors in large wooden tubs surrounded by boxes of C.H. Fischer & Co. products; elaborate decorative border with ball bluing and the slogan "Trade mark shows quality," incorporated; landscape with mountains, fields, and trees in background.

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Under Orient Hall, No. 64 Purchase St., 3d door below the Parker House, New Bedford, Mass. Charles Fisher, Proprietor. A.N. Tiderc, Agent

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Image of a text-based advertisement for clothing, hats, caps, and furnishing goods at a store in New Bedford, Massachusetts, printed in the style of a theater broadside; advertised items include all colors of cassimere, coats, overcoats, doeskin pants, single and double breasted vests, white and colored shirts, silk bows, scarves, hosiery, and underwear.

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The fur-seal's tooth by Kirk Munroe

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Image of an advertisement for The Fur-Seal's Tooth by Kirk Munroe featuring a man with a gun being rowed in a boat by two other men towards a seal with its head above water at bottom right; linked teeth as decorative border.

priJLC_ART_003147

American fashions fall and winter 1851_2 by Genio C. Scott, No. 130 Broadway New York

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Image of two vignettes featuring men, women and children outdoors and indoors; large monumental arch pictured in background; fashion details include Orientalism, women's riding habits with looped-up full skirts and jacket bodices, men's cloaks, frock coats and cutaway jackets worn with waistcoats and cravats, and trousers for both men and boys; accessories include top hats, canes, children's caps, and women's feathered hats; reference key for figures numbered 1-20 in margin.

priJLC_FASH_001543

Died, near the south-side railroad, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, aged four years

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Image of a handbill with text surrounded by a border with filigree corners designed as a mock death certificate for the Confederate States of America; text includes a poetic epitaph.

priJLC_MIL_003379

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