Details
Title Ask for P. Cox & Bro.'s fine shoes. [graphic].
Publisher [Rochester, N.Y.]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 11 cm. (3 x 4.25 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting two cobblers in a shop, one seated and working on a shoe, while the other man shows the sole of a boot to a well-dressed male customer. Patrick Cox moved his shoe business to Rochester, New York in 1871, which in 1876 became P. Cox & Bro. when his brother J.D. Cox became a partner. The style changed to P. Cox Shoe Manufacturing Co. in 1881.
Notes Distributor's stamp on recto: Nash?, 220 Sixth Avenue, cor. 15th Street, New York.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject P. Cox & Bro.
Shoe stores -- New York (State) -- Rochester.
Shoemakers.
Boots.
Shoes.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Cox [1975.F.204]
Accession number 1975.F.204