Details
Contributor J.H. Bufford & Co., printer.
Title [Simpson's millinery, laces and trimmings' store trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 5 prints : chromolithographs ; 8 x 10.5 cm. (3 x 4 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards for J. & J. Simpson's millinery, laces and trimmings' store at 725 and 727 Sixth Avenue, near 42nd Street in New York. Illustrations depict flowers; owls perched on a branch of a flowering tree; a girl feeding birds under the supervision of a woman; a naked cherub figure riding on the back of a turtle; and a little girl picking flowers and collecting them in her toy wagon.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Four prints copyrighted 1880 by F. Todd and numbered 245.
Printers and engravers include J.H. Bufford & Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject J. & J. Simpson.
Millinery -- New York (State) -- New York.
Animal feeding.
Birds.
Flowers.
Girls.
Owls.
Putti.
Turtles.
Women.
Trimmings stores -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Todd, F., copyright holder.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Simpson's [1975.F.753; 1975.F.797; 1975.F.804; 1975.F.854 & 855]
Accession number 1975.F.804