Trade card for D.B. Stetson, boots, shoes and slippers, Quincy, Mass., undated

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Ephemera

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GUSN-244839

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Clothing
Shoes and boots
Clothing - Shoes and boots - Folder 3
Trade card for D.B. Stetson, boots, shoes and slippers, Quincy, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Clothing
    - Shoes and boots
      - Clothing - Shoes and boots - Folder 3
        Trade card for D.B. Stetson, boots & shoes, Washington Street, Quincy, Mass., undated
        Trade card for D.B. Stetson, boots & shoes, Washington Street, Quincy, Mass., undated
        Trade card for W.D. Harding, dealer in boots, shoes, and gents' furnishing goods, bathing suits, bathing hats & bath shoes, 142 Circuit Avenue, Cottage City, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Geo. H. Wilson, dealer in boots, shoes and rubbers, 790 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for J.K. Brown's, shoes, 35 Westminister Street, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for Gilt Edge, shoe polish, Whittemore Bros. & Co., 174 to 184 lincoln Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Gilt Edge, shoe polish, Whittemore Bros. & Co., 174 to 184 lincoln Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Gilt Edge, shoe polish, Whittemore Bros. & Co., 174 to 184 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes, New York, New York and P.B. Robinson, dealer in boots & shoes, 221 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated
        Trade card for George Robbins, boots, shoes and rubbers, Centre Street, Newton, Mass., undated
        Trade card for D.B. Stetson, boots, shoes and slippers, Quincy, Mass., undated (current record)
        Postcard for Hood Rubbers, location unkown, ca. 1910
        Trade card for Geo. H. Chapman's, boots, shoes and slippers, 146 Main Street, Fitchburg, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Walk-Over Boot Shop, A.P. Crawford, Prop., 302 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated
        Trade card for L.F. Newcomb, shoes, Commercial Block, Cabot Street, Beverly, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Mechanics Hall Shoe Store, Ezra A. Day, 325 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Central Boot and Shoe Store, G.H. Searle, West Gardner, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Central Boot and Shoe Store, G.H. Searle, West Gardner, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Central Boot and Shoe Store, G.H. Searle, West Gardner, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Central Boot and Shoe Store, G.H. Searle, West Gardner, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Central Boot and Shoe Store, G.H. Searle, West Gardner, Mass., undated
        Trade card Eben J. Beane, boots, shoes and rubber goods, Westminster Street, corner of Union, Providence, Rhode Island, 1879
        Trade card for Vanity Customodes, shoes, 576 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, undated
        Trade card for A.H. Howe, fine boots and shoes, 2179 Washington Street, Roxbury, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Holson's Shoe Company, 697 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Boston, Mass., 1898

Description

In the image a bird defends her shoe nest from a cat. The image caption reads "A child's shoe without the A.S.T.C. black tip upon the toe does not even make a safe bird's nest." The A.S.T.C. shoes are a specialty.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
clothing
shoes (footwear)
boots
children (people by age group)
footwear
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card : color illustration ; 3 1/4 x 5 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.023.07.03.012

Image Dimensions

3 1/4 x 5 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of William Sumner Appleton, February 28, 1927.

Places

Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Birds
Cats

Description Level

Item

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