Details
Contributor Trautmann, Bailey & Blampey, printer.
Title The secret out at last. Why Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure. Adjustable duplex corset. Made only by the Bortree M'f'g Co., Jackson, Mich. Office & salesroom 15 and 17 Mercer St. New York. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Trautmann, Bailey & Blampey
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 13.5 x 12 cm. (5.25 x 4.75 in.), folded to 13.5 x 8.5 cm. (5.25 x 3.25 in.)
Description Illustrated metamorphic trade card depicting two women standing outside of a bedroom, one peeping through the keyhole of the closed door. The open flap shows a woman, "Mrs. Brown," attired in a corset and undergarments looking at her relflection in a mirror. The Bortree Company started to produce the duplex corset in 1875.
Notes Contains advertising text printed on verso: Adjustable duplex corset. The best corset in the world. Perfect in shape, and the most comfortable and durable corset known. Double bone, double steel, double seams. Warranted not to rip. Ask for it! See that the word "Duplex" is stamped on every corset. Made only by the Bortree M'f'g Co., Jackson, Mich. Office & salesroom 15 and 17 Mercer St. New York.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Digitized.
Subject Bortree Manufacturing Company.
Clothing industry -- Michigan -- Jackson.
Bedrooms.
Clothing & dress.
Corsets.
Mirrors.
Voyeurism.
Women.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Metamorphic pictures -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Duplex [P.2002.36]
Accession number P.2002.36