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From Porter's great American shoe store, 242 N. 8th St., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A106411
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Contributor
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title
From Porter's great American shoe store, 242 N. 8th St., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 5 cm. (2.75 x 2 in.)
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a man wearing a hat labeled "Porter" running with packages of shoes, one in his left hand, the other propped on his right shoulder. The Philadelphia shoe store was owned by R.W. Burns.
Notes
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject
Burns, R.W.
Shoe stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Porters.
Lifting & carrying.
Running.
Genre
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Porter's [1975.F.671]
Accession number
1975.F.671
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
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