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Henry H. McCargo, dealer in all makes of sewing machines, 1611 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia. [graphic].
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Title
Henry H. McCargo, dealer in all makes of sewing machines, 1611 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 5 x 9 cm. (2 x 3.5 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a business card for Henry H. McCargo tucked into a spray of flowers.
Notes
Advertising text promoting the "New Home Sewing Machine" and the "Improved Domestic, the Genuine Singer, No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson, American, Household" printed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Walter Bethel.
Digitized.
Subject
McCargo, Henry H.
Sewing machine industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Flowers.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1800.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - McCargo [P.9300]
Accession number
P.9300
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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