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The cheapest place in town! Fechner Bros., auctioneers, No. 490 State Street, New Haven, Conn. [graphic].
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Contributor
J.H. Bufford & Co., printer.
Title
The cheapest place in town! Fechner Bros., auctioneers, No. 490 State Street, New Haven, Conn. [graphic].
Publisher
Boston : Bufford
Publisher
MASS. Boston. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
4 prints : chromolithographs ; 13 x 9 cm. (5 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Series of illustrated stock trade cards for New Haven auctioneers Fechner Bros. depicting portraits of famous nineteenth-century actresses and dancers, including Eliza Weathersby, Jennie Hughes, Carrie Perkins, and Arline Stanley, posed in landscape settings in costume.
Notes
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Hughes, Jennie, 19th cent. -- Portraits.
Perkins, Carrie -- Portraits.
Stanley, Arline -- Portraits.
Weathersby, Eliza, 1849-1887 -- Portraits.
Fechner Bros.
Auctioneers -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
Actresses.
Dancers.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Fechner [66231.D.1-4]
Accession number
66231.D.1
66231.D.2
66231.D.3
66231.D.4
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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