Details
Title Thomas M. Harris & Co. [graphic] :. Buy the standard tip.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 71 x 40 cm. (28 x 15.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing children at play in a park setting. In the foreground, two boys, one in a sailor’s outfit, pulls a swing attached to a tree, on which a boy sits and a girl stands. The tree is adorned with a sign that reads “Best Childs Shoe Made.” At the boys' feet, a "Standard Tips" shoebox, with an eye-catching illustrated label lies on the ground. One of a pair of Standard Tips rests on the box, with the other lying next to it with the sole bearing a Harris trademark. In background, two boys play stick ball. All the children are well-dressed and wear 'Standard Tips" shoes. Also contains the Thomas M. Harris & Co. trademark marked with the dates and Aug. 1882 & July 1884 the motto "Our Sole Leather Tip the Best in the World."
Notes pdcp00045
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 251
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Subject Thomas M. Harris & Co.
Shoe industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Children.
Play (Recreation)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards