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Cheap cash store war declared against high prices and long credits. W.T. Keyes

Description: Image of a storefront advertising the dry goods stock of W.T. Keyes; men, women, and children in current fashions are seen walking along the street and browsing for goods; train visible in background at right; music printed for a song advertising Keyes' business along with the lyrics for several verses.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1860
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001654
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.

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

Visual Materials

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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Morgan, Bush & Co. 627 & 629 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Price list for this day only. Orders filled at lowest market rates

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Image of the four-story Morgan, Bush & Company building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the center of a textile price list; pedestrians and horse-drawn carts carrying supplies are visible in front of the storefront advertising dry goods; textiles in the price list include muslins, prints, ginghams, cambrics, corset jeans, denims, tickings, and shirting strips and checks.

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Fitchburg Pictorial Advertiser ... published by J.A. Russell & Co., and distributed gratuitously

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Image of a 4-page advertisement with a central image of J.A. Russell & Co.'s "Emporium of fashion" storefront with a line of people walking in on the left looking shabby with a banner that reads "We are going to be clothed," and walking out on the right with a banner that reads "How do we look now?" looking well-dressed in tailored jackets, overcoats, waistcoats and trousers; surrounding columns of the newspaper contain other vignettes, cartoons, and advertisements for various clothing, furnishing goods, trunks, and other dry goods provided by J.A. Russell & Co. including images of men's day and evening wear and African-American men.

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

Visual Materials

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.

priJLC_FASH_001653

Manufactory of the Celebrated S. Tobias, Wine Bitters

Visual Materials

Image of the four-story facade of the wine and liquor store of Solomon Tobias at 68 North Third Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing barrels on the sidewalk out front advertising "S. Tobias No. 68 Importer & Dealer in Wines, Liquors, Cordials, and Syrups"; with portions of the storefront signs for the neighboring businesses presumably of dry goods merchant Charles Schott; and the drugstore of Scattergood & Whitall.

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Unprecedented triumph. We protect the people consequently they support us! Annual spring and summer opening of clothing and furnish'g goods

Visual Materials

Image of a storefront with a large crowd of people advertising for dry goods supplier Edward Steinfield in Rochester, New York; a large quantity of men and women, including Native American Indians, Chinese, laborers, aeronauts, and farmers rush toward the E. Steinfield store by various means of travel, including horse, carriage, cart, elephant, hot air balloon, train, and even ladder through the windows or on the roof.

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Cheap cash store war declared against high prices and long credits. W.T. Keyes

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