Trade card, Universal Fashion Company, Mrs. E.A.W. Rouse, agency for the Universal Fashion Company's perfect-fitting patterns, Bragg's Building, Centre Street, Bath, Maine

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Clothing
Milliners
Clothing - Milliners - Folder 1
Trade card, Universal Fashion Company, Mrs. E.A.W. Rouse, agency for the Universal Fashion Company's perfect-fitting patterns, Bragg's Building, Centre Street, Bath, Maine
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Clothing
    - Milliners
      - Clothing - Milliners - Folder 1
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        Trade card for Miss A.E. Trenholm, millinery, 197 Main Street, Fitchburg, Mass., undated
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        Trade card for S.F. Lothrop & Co., millinery and French goods, No. 39 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., 1862
        
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        Trade card for Miss G.S. Hubbard, fancy dry goods and millinery, 91 Hancock Street, Quincy, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Wadleigh's, millinery, 474 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1879
        Trade card for Mrs. H.N. Newell, milliner, Columbian Block, Concord, New Hampshire, undated
        Advertisement for Mrs. Bouncore, milliner and dress maker, No. 44 Marlboro Sreet, Boston, Mass., ca. 1821
        Postcard for Mlle. Caroline's, millinery, 480 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., May 20, 1916
        Trade card for Mrs. C.S. Capen, milliner, 149 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1871
        Trade card for Mrs. H.N. Newell, milliner, Columbian Block, Concord, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for Mrs. H.N. Newell, milliner, Columbian Block, Concord, New Hampshire, undated
        Billhead for Mrs. S.E. Way, French millinery, No. 192 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., dated April 16, 1891
        Billhead for White's Bonnet Rooms, Crosby & Loomis, Nos. 39 and 40 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass., dated May 9, 1839
        Billhead for E.B. Halsey, importer, 253 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, dated March 18, 1890
        Invitation for Joaquin & Cie., importers, 32 Temple Place, Boston, Mass., 1879
        Trade card advertising Madame Walsh, fashionable millinery & dressmaking, No. 1 Bowdoin Square Block, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card, Universal Fashion Company, Mrs. E.A.W. Rouse, agency for the Universal Fashion Company's perfect-fitting patterns, Bragg's Building, Centre Street, Bath, Maine (current record)

Description

Rouse deals in fashionable millinery and fancy goods. She also has a business in hair switches, curls, fronts and wigs. The Universal Fashion Company is advertising an "Album of Fashions," 64 pages with over 1,000 illustrations. In the card illustration a young woman observes a broken milk jug at her feet.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
clothing
patterns (guides)
milliners
hats
wigs
sewing (process)
women (female humans)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card : color illustration

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.023.06.01.027

Credit Line

Purchase 2017.

Places

New York City (New York state)
London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom)
Paris (Ville de Paris department, Île-de-France, France)
Bath (Sagadahoc county, Maine)

Record Details

Originator

Universal Fashion Company (Publisher)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Description Level

Item

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