Trade card for celluloid collars and cuffs featuring a boy in a tuxedo, undated

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Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-170037

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Clothing
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Clothing - General - Folder 1
Trade card for celluloid collars and cuffs featuring a boy in a tuxedo, undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Clothing
    - General
      - Clothing - General - Folder 1
        Trade card for celluloid collars and cuffs featuring a boy in a tuxedo, undated (current record)
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        Letterhead for Isaac Fenno & Co., wholesale clothiers, 66 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., 1863-1872
        Billhead for Geo. M. Glazier, clothing, 77 & 81 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., dated April 27, 1875
        Billhead for Brown Durrell Co., importers and manufacturers, Essex Street, Boston, Mass., March 9, 1907
        Billhead for Keating, Lane & Co., clothing, 81 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., dated May 17, 1871
        Postcard, Larkin Co., Buffalo, New York
        Trade card for Three Taylors, dealers in clothing, 49 Merrimack, Corner of Fleet Street, Haverhill, Mass., 1869

Description

This trade card advertises celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms. A boy, who is dressed in a tuxedo and wears a cuff formed into a hat with a cufflink on his head, demonstrates that the cuffs are waterproof by dunking one into a bowl of water set on a pedestal.

Details

Descriptive Terms

celluloid (cellulosic)
collars (neckwear)
cuffs (costume components)
tuxedoes
dickeys
boys
advertising
business (commercial function)
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements

Additional Identification Number

Digital ID 000401

Physical Description

1 trade card : color illustration

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.023.01.01.001

Places

New York City (New York state)

Record Details

Originator

Donaldson Brothers (Firm) (Printer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements

Description Level

Item

Historical/Biographical Note

Sources

Smithsonian Institution catalog record.

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