Advertisement containing 18 red, white, and blue specimens of corps badges for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Divisions of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, and 12th Corps. Also contains a decorative border and advertising text promoting new designs and bargain presentation swords., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11x14 - Advertisements - H [(2)5786.F.1a]
Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 413, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W206 [P.2142]
