Visual Materials

Ideal skirt holder : manufactured by C.A. Dunbar & Co. Detroit, Mich

Description: Image of an eye-level side view of a young woman in a park resting her foot on a bicycle and holding her skirt up at the knee to show a garter-like accessory around her leg.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1896
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001365
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.

Nashawannuck Mfg Co. suspenders : the spirit of 1776 1876

Visual Materials

Image of two women in long full skirts and elaborate hats with feathers holding a framed portrait of George Washington topped with American flags and an eagle between them; each woman has one foot on a small stool with a corner of the portrait resting on a knee; decorative vines and scrolls surround the manufacturer's name; lion holding flag with "N" for Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company with motto, "Trade mark. Labor omnia vincit." in small circular frame at bottom center.

priJLC_FASH_002958

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3rd.. size steam fire engine built by the Silsby Manufacturing Co. Seneca Falls, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level view of firefighters pulling a steam fire engine through a deserted city street at night towards the flames of a burning building in the background; the fire engine is labeled "Little Giant" and has "3" on the light.

priJLC_FIRE_001492

[Woman in checkered skirt with golf clubs]

Visual Materials

Image of a woman wearing a checkered skirt and long-sleeved blouse with coordinating cape and feathered hat stepping down from an automobile at a golf course; bag with golf clubs in vehicle; border of pink ribbon and golf clubs ; a photographer stands on a stone wall to take her image at top right.

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American fashions, December, 1883. Published by the Jno. J. Mitchell Co., 830 Broadway, N.Y

Visual Materials

Image of two men indoors, one with a hand resting on a piano, advertising fashions for men; fashion details include tail coat, knee-length jacket, waistcoat, ties, and trousers; accessories include top hat, cane, striped stockings, and gloves; reference key for figures numbered 1-5 in bottom margin.

priJLC_FASH_001569

Outside connected passenger engine. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester N.H

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level landscape view of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. factory complex along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an elevation view of the side of a passenger steam locomotive on railroad tracks in the foreground, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer visible in the cab, a tender holding wood with a man standing in the tank, and a label between the driving wheels that reads "Amoskeag Mang. Co. Manchester N.H. / C.W. Baldwin Agent / 1856."

priJLC_TRAN_001071

The favorite Rossow wagon : Rossow Bros. M'F'G Co. Chicago

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level perspective view of the side of a green wagon with a panel labeled "Rossow" and red wheels.

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Ideal skirt holder : manufactured by C.A. Dunbar & Co. Detroit, Mich

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