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J. D. Wilson, dealer in dry goods groceries

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1896
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001674
Creator: Last, Jay T

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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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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Boots shoes & rubbers for everybody

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Image of S.B. Abeles' clothier 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; rack featuring several styles of hats and three different lace-up and button boots and shoes pictured above the main storefront image.

priJLC_FASH_001646

Cadets of temperance. This is to certify

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Image of a certificate of membership for a temperance association; three young men hold a banner that reads, "No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider." and gesture towards a portico with their mother kneeling at their feet; ruined house at right in background; certificate text at bottom center; draped American flag and scrollwork oval frame with eagle and banner that reads, "Truth Virtue & Temperance" at bottom center.

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Clothiers, Tailors, and Dry Goods, A-D by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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The Jay T. Last collection of fashion prints and ephemera contains approximately 7,500 items dating from the 1570s to the early 1900s, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1825 to 1900. This collection consists of fashion plates, advertising prints, broadsides, and promotional ephemera produced for clothiers and tailors, dry goods suppliers, garment manufacturers, fashion publications, and textile companies affiliated with the design, production, and/or sale of clothing, accessories, and dry goods. While most of the materials are American, there are also notable quantities of foreign items in the collection, including French fashion plates, fez labels in several languages, and foreign textile labels. Labels affixed to textile samples of various sizes are also included. Materials are broadly divided into two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or smaller) and large-size items (typically larger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and select small-size items are fully inventoried with printers, artists, and publishers indexed by name. The collection includes 250 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic advertising prints and fashion plates. Small-size items number approximately 7,250 and contain a variety of promotional materials including trade cards, calendars, booklets, product labels, fashion plates, periodicals, clippings, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. Each series is divided into subseries according to the kind of business, service, or trade sponsoring the advertisement. Types of businesses have been identified according to the principal type of product(s) manufactured or sold by the business. These subseries are arranged as follows: Accessories; Clothiers, Tailors, and Dry Goods; Fashion Plates And Periodicals; Footwear; Garments; Headwear; Sewing Supplies; and Textiles. This collection contains many American and European printed illustrations, commonly known as "fashion plates," that typically depict men, women, or children modeling current clothing and dress styles. Small plates (usually 14 x 10 inches or less in this collection) illustrated the pages of magazines and bound volumes that were marketed specifically for women. Larger plates, primarily intended for display, advertised the products and services of fashion designers, tailors, and pattern makers. The collection provides a resource for studying clothing and dress, sales and merchandise, textiles, and sewing, as well as changing fashion trends in the United States and Europe in the 19th century. The images are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about the history of the American fashion, clothing, dry-goods, and textile industries and the evolution of their advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.

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Clothiers, Tailors, and Dry Goods, E-J by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

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J. D. Wilson, dealer in dry goods groceries

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