Trade card, Broadhead Worsted Mills, Jamestown, New York

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Date

1890

GUSN

GUSN-318658

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Trade card albums collection
Album: Window shades, doors, furniture, carpets
Trade card, Broadhead Worsted Mills, Jamestown, New York
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Trade card albums collection
- Album: Window shades, doors, furniture, carpets

Description

In the cover illustration a woman in a riding habit removes a letter from a tree outside the Broadhead Worsted Mills. Broadhead manufactures fabrics and dresses and describes their product inside the card. Text on the verso reads "Latest novelties, newest shades and colorings" for the J.S. Butler dry goods store at Hillsboro Bridge in New Hampshire.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
textiles
textile mills
clothing
dresses (garments)
women (female humans)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 trade card : color illustrations ; 5 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP003

Collection Name

Trade card albums collection

Reference Code

EP003.004.002

Image Dimensions

5 1/4 x 6 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Anonymous donor, 2002.

Places

Jamestown (Chautauqua county, New York state)
Hillsboro (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Originator

Broadhead Worsted Mills (Publisher)
J. Ottman Lithographic Company (Printer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Subjects

Dry-goods

Description Level

Item

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