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Brown & Magee, manufacturers, 708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia [graphic].
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Fashioning Philadelphia: The Style of the City, 1720-1940
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Brown & Magee, manufacturers, 708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1866
Date
ca. 1866
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen mounted on cardboard; 14 x 9 cm.(5.5 x 3.25 in.)
Description
Photographic advertising card promoting Brown & Magee, trunk manufacturers, as successors to James E. Brown. Brown & Magee succeeded Brown circa 1866. Depicts a labeled display of men's and women's bags, valises, and trunks. Includes a soufflet bag; a French sac; an officers bag; a tourist bag; and an Army trunk.
Notes
Inscribed in ink on image: Brown and Magee.
Advertisement printed on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Subject
Brown & Magee.
Luggage industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Luggage.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 708.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Advertising cards -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - 5x7 unidentified - Business [(5)5786.F.114a]
Accession number
(5)5786.F.114a
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Fashioning Philadelphia: The Style of the City, 1720-1940
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