Illustrated trade card depicting a bust portrait of Charles Oakford. Filigree surrounds the oval-shaped portrait. Charles Oakford established his hat store in 1827 and relocated to the Continental Hotel in 1860., Manuscript list on verso includes dates and prices: Nov. 22/60: $8.33; Jan. 10/61 due 21st; Jan. 28/61: due 21st [?]; March 1/61: due 21st Feb.; March 28/61: [illegible]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Creator
Steel, James W., 1799-1879, engraver
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Oakford [(7)1322.F.443l]
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., James W. Brown relocated his tailoring business from 34 South Seventh Street to 136 South Sixth Street in 1864.
Date
[ca. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brown [(2)5786.F.184c]