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Details
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