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The Dueber watch case factories at Newport, Ky. The Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co. branch offices. Cincinnati, O., New York & Chicago.
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Contributor
Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, printer.
Title
The Dueber watch case factories at Newport, Ky. The Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co. branch offices. Cincinnati, O., New York & Chicago. [graphic] : The best, the Dueber watch case. In rolled gold plate. The largest watch case factories on the globe. In gold or silver.
Publisher
New York : Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, 21-25 Warren St
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 11 cm. (2.75 x 4.25 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting vignettes of Dueber buildings, including the Dueber Gas Works, surrounded by drapes and divided in the center by a statue with a base that reads, "What is worth doing is worth doing well". The male figure holds a shield with the phrase, "We defy competition". Imagery also includes a clock, peacock, anchor and flowers.
Notes
Printer's imprint below image partially trimmed off.
Advertising text printed on verso for Dueber products sold by Geo. Cohen, dealer in watches, clocks, and jewelry, 177 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Miriam Levy.
Digitized.
Subject
Cohen, George.
Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co.
Clock & watch industry -- Kentucky -- Newport.
Clocks & watches.
Draperies.
Flowers.
Peacocks.
Sculpture.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Dueber [P.8666.3y]
Accession number
P.8666.3y
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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