Details
Title Solar Tip Shoes [graphic] : Made only by John Mundell & Co. Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 66 x 51 cm. (26 x 20 in.)
Description Advertisement showing a winter scene with children playing on a swath of ice on a hillside near a refreshment stand. Several boys lie, fallen onto one another, on the ice as two other boys slide in from behind. A row of children, including two girls watch them from the side. A dog stands in a playful stance in front of the pileup. Also contains a decorative, partial border with pictorial details of pairs of Solar Tip Shoes with the Mundell trademark visible on the sole of one. The trademark of John Mundell & Co. "Pat. Feb. 19th 1878" illustrated in lower left of image. Contains the motto "The Best Sole Leather Tip Made."
Notes pdcp00042
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 218
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Subject John Mundell & Co.
Shoe industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Play (Recreation)
Winter.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards