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To Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. [graphic] : The new costume polka composed for the piano by Mathias Keller.
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Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist.
Contributor
Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title
To Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. [graphic] : The new costume polka composed for the piano by Mathias Keller.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 162 Chesnut St., successors to Geo. Willig
Date
c1851
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 33 x 26 cm.(12.75 x 10 in.)
Description
Sheet music cover containing a portrait of a woman attired in a bloomer costume, standing in front of the storefront of music publishers Lee & Walker on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. The lady holds a blue parasol, and wears a corseted pink-colored coat and pale yellow skirt over her white bloomers. A model harp adorns the door of the music store in which a female patron wearing a bloomer costume enters. Also shows the neighboring J. A. Robinson bookstore (162, i.e., 632 Chestnut). Pedestrians, including another woman in bloomers, walk on the sidewalk, past the store, and look in its window. The bloomer costume gained notoriety from an 1851 depiction of women's rights advocate Amelia Bloomer in this style of reform dress comprised of Turkish pantaloons and a skirt.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 407
Notes
Additional distributors printed on recto: New York, Wm. Hall & Son; Memphis, Ten. P. Flavio; and New Orleans, Wm. T. Mayo.
Printed on recto: Plain 25 cts net. Colored 38.
Accompanied by the sheet music.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 756
Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11855.F (Doret). Copy gift of David Doret.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 38 L 477
Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy.
Inscribed on verso of HSP copy: April 2, 1958. Mifflin Fund.
Subject
Robinson, J. A.
Lee & Walker.
Bloomers.
Women -- Clothing & dress
Music stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bookstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music covers -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 38 L 477
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