French Millinery, Dress & Flower Making Establishment. Madame Petit, between Second and Third, South side, up stairs. No. 70 Chesnut St. Philadelphia. From Paris.
Title
French Millinery, Dress & Flower Making Establishment. Madame Petit, between Second and Third, South side, up stairs. No. 70 Chesnut St. Philadelphia. From Paris Where ladies and merchants will always be sure to find a large, handsome and fashionable assortment of flowers, bonnets, caps & fancy articles, of every description, wholesale and retail. Persons traveling will find it greatly to their advantage to call as they can have any number of dressess, bonnets, caps, and flowers, made in twenty-four hours notice. The French and English fashions regularly received
Description
Advertisement showing a cloth-draped table with four hat stands adorned with different designs of bonnets. Bonnets include ribbons, flowers,and flower appliques. Feathers and springs of leaves also adorn the table., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript notes on recto: Original., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 85, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 French Millinery
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1845]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 French Millinery
O.N. Thacher, wholesale & retail hat, cap, & fur ware-house Nth Third St. No. 40 opposite the City Hotel Philadelphia.
Title
O.N. Thacher, wholesale & retail hat, cap, & fur ware-house Nth Third St. No. 40 opposite the City Hotel Philadelphia
Description
Advertisement depicting the retail shop interior, showing a pile of hats, caps, and fur garments piled on the sales counter. Shelves built into the walls are lined neatly with merchandise behind the counter. An adjacent room is visible through an open door showing a male and a female worker standing over steaming tubs. Includes a vignette of a beaver, a symbol of the fur trade, gnawing through a tree near a stream. Oliver N. Thacher tenanted 40 North Third Street, opposite the City Hotel, from 1840 to 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date
[ca. 1840]
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]