Details
Title [Universal Fashion Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1882]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 12 x 7.5 cm. (4.75 x 3 in.) or smaller.
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a boy in a sailor outfit seated on a rope ladder and a blue banner inscribed "Universal Fashion Co." superimposed onto reeds.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
One print [1975.F.886] contains a calendar for 1882 printed on verso.
One print [P.9111.7] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting W.M. Kilbourne & Son's books, stationery, toys, albums, etc., the Liberty, New York distributor of the Universal Fashion Co.'s "perfect-fitting patterns".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Universal Fashion Company.
Fashion industry.
Boys.
Clothing & dress.
Ladders.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Calendars -- 1880-1890.
Associated name W.M. Kilbourne & Son, distributor.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Universal [1975.F.886 & P.9111.7]
Accession number P.9111.7
P.9111.7(v)