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Oliver Brooks, wholesale and retail, hat, cap & fancy fur warehouse [graphic] : London & Paris. Fall & spring fashions, regularly imported. Superior otter & seal caps. Leather hat cases & silk & cotton umbrellas.
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Contributor
Watson, John Frampton printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title
Oliver Brooks, wholesale and retail, hat, cap & fancy fur warehouse [graphic] : London & Paris. Fall & spring fashions, regularly imported. Superior otter & seal caps. Leather hat cases & silk & cotton umbrellas.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Watson's Lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1846
Date
[August 1846]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 36 x 28 cm. (14 x 11 in.)
Description
Advertisement depicting an ornate table with scroll legs covered with a jumbled variety of men's and women's hats in addition to an umbella (handle visible). Brooks patented an improvement in cassinmere hats in 1842.
Notes
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846.
Probably printed by John Frampton Watson.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 158
Subject
Oliver Brooks (Firm)
Hat industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hats.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Provenance
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Advertisements [P.8929.23]
Accession number
P.8729.23
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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