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Buist’s garden seeds are the best [graphic].
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Title
Buist’s garden seeds are the best [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1885]
Physical Description
1 print: chromolithograph; 67 x 37 cm. (26.25 x 14.5 in.)
Description
Advertisement showing a socialite attired in a plunging lace lined bed gown, holding a handkerchief in one hand, and a feather fan in the other standing on her beautiful lawn in front of a mansion house, possibly in Germantown.
Notes
pdcp00046
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 20
Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Subject
Robert Buist Company.
Seed industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lawns -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Socialites -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Advertisements -- 1880-1890.
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
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