Details
Contributor Wells & Hope Co., printer.
Title Solar Tip Shoes [graphic] : Made only by John Mundell & Co. Philada. None genuine without our trade mark. Look out for the trademark. The “Solar Tips Social Club.” We buy none but solar tip.
Publisher Philadelphia: Wells & Hope Co
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 21 x 31 cm. (8 x 12 in.)
Description Advertisement containing a scene showing a children’s cotillion of the Solar Tips Social Club. The boy and girl club members dance as couples in their fancy attire, well-dressed hair, and "Solar Tips Social Club" sashes. To the right, children wearing tattered and non-solar tipped shoes gather forlornly to the side by a pole marked “We Must Buy Solar Tip Shoes and Join the Happy Party." A boy sits, legs outstretched, on the floor, as girls cry, comfort one another, and stare at their feet. The firm's trademark is incorporated into the scene and reads "The Best Sole Leather Tip Made. Patd. February 19, 1878. J.M. & Co. Trade Mark. Reg."
Notes Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00048
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 219
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards. One of three Mundell advertisements. Only one with imprint.
Subject John Mundell & Co.
Shoe industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Balls (Parties)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards