Details
Creator Steel, James W., 1799-1879, engraver.
Title Charles Oakford & Sons in the Continental, hats, caps, and furs, wholesale and retail, 826-828 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [ca. 1861]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; 9 x 7 cm. (3.5 x 2.75 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Charles Oakford. Filigree surrounds the oval-shaped portrait. Charles Oakford established his hat store in 1827 and relocated to the Continental Hotel in 1860.
Notes Manuscript list on verso includes dates and prices: Nov. 22/60: $8.33; Jan. 10/61 due 21st; Jan. 28/61: due 21st [?]; March 1/61: due 21st Feb.; March 28/61: [illegible].
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Oakford, Charles -- Portraits.
Charles Oakford & Sons.
Hat industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Portraits -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Oakford [(7)1322.F.443l]
Accession number (7)1322.F.443l