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Title R. Totani, importer of Japanese goods, 127 S. Eleventh Street, Philadelphia, PA. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified
Date [ca. 1893]
Physical Description 1 item : letterpress and engraving ; sheet 9 x 16 cm (3.5 x 6 in.)
Description Envelope for Reachero Totani's Japanese goods business located at 127 South 11th Street, Philadelphia. Envelope for Totani's business with decorative lines bordering the left corner. Addressed to Mrs. Alfred G. Baker, 1818 Spruce St., City [ie. Philadelphia]. Postmarked Philadelphia, PA, 1893 and has a one-cent stamp with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Reachero Totani married a white woman named Elizabeth in 1889 in New York City and is listed in the 1891 New York directory as a clerk. He is listed in the Philadelphia directories from 1893 to 1895 with his business as "Japanese goods" and "china." In Philadelphia, he was also an active member of the Japanese Club, a dinner club comprised of Japanese men that met monthly. Henrietta Rush Fales Baker (1838-1897) married Alfred Gustavus Baker (1831-1892) in 1862. Alfred was president of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company and then became the director of the Southwark National Bank. When Henrietta died, she left an estate of two million dollars.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred postmark date.
Subject Totani, Reachero.
Baker, Henrietta Rush Fales Baker, 1838-1897.
Art objects, Japanese.
Decorative arts -- Japanese.
Japanese -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Japanese business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
AAPI.
Genre Engravings -- 1890-1900.
Envelopes -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| ephemera - envelopes - Totani [P.2025.60]
Accession number P.2025.60