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Decker Bros. matchless pianos, New York. [graphic].
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Contributor
J. Ottman Lithographic Company, printer.
Title
Decker Bros. matchless pianos, New York. [graphic].
Publisher
New York : J. Ottmann, lith
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8.5 cm. (4.75 x 3.25 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a portrait of a woman grasping the branch of a flowering tree with her right hand. Includes a vignette on verso of a piano. Brothers David and John Decker began prducing pianos in New York in 1865.
Notes
Contains advertising text printed on verso: Decker Brothers, grand, upright & square pianos. Incomparable in workmanship, matchless in tone, artistic in design, unequalled in durability, moderate in price. 33 Union Square, New York. W. G. Fischer, 1210 Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Fischer, W. G. (William G.)
Decker Brothers.
Musical instrument industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Pianos.
Trees.
Women.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Decker [P.9577.15]
Accession number
P.9577.15
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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