Trade card for the Boston Culinary Employment Agency, Boston, Mass., depicts a chef holding a food tray, undated

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Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-225201

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Business and finance
Employment agencies
Business and finance - Employment agencies - Folder 2
Trade card for the Boston Culinary Employment Agency, Boston, Mass., depicts a chef holding a food tray, undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Business and finance
    - Employment agencies
      - Business and finance - Employment agencies - Folder 2
        Trade card for the Boston Culinary Employment Agency, Boston, Mass., depicts a chef holding a food tray, undated (current record)
        Trade card for Mrs. Kate Benson's Employment Parlors, Worcester, Mass., undated

Description

This advertisement describes the services of an employment agency supplying culinary workers for businesses and families.

Details

Descriptive Terms

employment agencies
cooks
bakers
business (commercial function)
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card : illustration

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.016.06.02.001

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Boston Culinary Employment Agency (Boston, Mass.)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Other Organizations

Allied Printing Trades Council (Boston, Mass.)

Subjects

Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
Food service employees

Accruals Note

"Headquarters for Boston cooks and bakers, hotels, clubs, restaurants, lunch rooms, steamships and private families. Supplied with chefs, seconds, broilers, fry, vegetable cooks, bread bakers, pastry cooks, men or women, candy makers, ice cream men, house men, porters, yard men, dish washers, firemen, pot men, salad men and oyster men. What do you say? You want the help? We are ready to furnish them. J.H. Coughlan, Mgr. 869 Washington Street. Licensed employment agency. Open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone, Dewey 4165-W. Allied Printing Trades Council, Union Label 63, Boston."

Description Level

Item

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