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Just arrived! Alfred Wright's perfumery. "Mary Stuart" and "Wild Olive" 45 cts. per bottle. For sale by Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia (LOC)

Just arrived! Alfred Wright's perfumery. "Mary Stuart" and "Wild Olive" 45 cts. per bottle. For sale by Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia

 

[Place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [between 1880 and 1910]

 

1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 11.6 x 8.1 cm.

 

Notes:

Print shows an animated root vegetable, possibly a beet, with a human head wearing a tall top hat, and carrying a walking stick and a heart fashioned out of soil, from which a plant is growing. The vegetable is walking from left to right.

Title from item.

(DLC/PP-2001:068).

Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

 

Subjects:

Perfumes--1880-1910.

Vegetables--1880-1910.

 

Format: Advertisements--1880-1910.

Trade cards--1880-1910.

Chromolithographs--Color--1880-1910.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.39624

 

Call Number: LOT 14100, no. 510

 

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Uploaded on February 14, 2025
Taken circa 1880