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O. S. Baldwin and Co. agents for the Metropolitan Manufactory : Clothing and Furnishing House

Description: Image of a broadside advertisement for O. S Baldwin and Company’s Metropolitan Manufactory Clothing and Furnishing House. Main image on the poster is of an opened trunk placed next to two carrying bags and a closed case.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1859-1860
Call number: priJLC_TRAV_003033
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 bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

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

Visual Materials

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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State line : Austin, Baldwin & Co. General agents

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Image of an advertisement for the State Line and their agents; a sailor hammering a flag emblazoned with an "S" and a star at the top of a mast with ships sailing the ocean in the background within a decorative frame; globes at left and right showing both sides of the world.

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An Indian story, by Rudyard Kipling ... the Cosmopolitan

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for The Cosmopolitan July 1895 issue featuring two women standing next to each other reading a poster advertising the July 1895 issue of the magazine.

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Rice's popular flower seeds are the best

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Image of a well-dressed woman in a long dress and hat carrying gloves and a fan next to a wood fence railing; her hat, dress, and fan are all draped with fresh flowers in an advertisement for Rice's seeds.

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Paris laundry soap : Shubart, Ehret & Co. Chicago

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for Paris laundry soap manufactured by Shubart, Ehret & Company, Chicago; image of an elephant draped with tapestries carrying Paris soap and several cherubs on its back being carried in an oversized shell pulled by large fish; cavorting mermen and nude women draped in flowing fabric surround the elephant.

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Wanamaker & Brown oak hall : the largest clothing house in America

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Image of a calendar with a central image of young man in a cap, striped scarf, and jacket carrying a sign advertising the location of Wanamaker & Brown Oak Hall clothiers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "S.E. corner of Sixth and Market Sts Philada." surrounded by a decorative border of ivy, flowers, fruit, grain, a birdhouse, and trellises containing a January-December calendar for the year 1872.

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O. S. Baldwin and Co. agents for the Metropolitan Manufactory : Clothing and Furnishing House

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