About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0164
  • TitleNo more 'salt junk', for the navies of the world now use Libby, McNeill & Libby's cooked corn beef [Lewis & Percival].
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Lewis & Percival. Front of card: color illustration of sailors on ship eating canned meat and cheering as barrel labeled salt junk is tossed overboard with text: No more 'salt junk', for the navies of the world now use Libby, McNeill & Libby's cooked corn beef. Back of card: black text reading in part: Libby, McNeill & Libby's Cooked Meats. Economical, delicious, for sale by Lewis & Percival (late with Park & Tilford.) Grocers, wines and imported segars [cigars]...goods delivered to all parts of the city. Text followed by a list of products with prices. Business address: 569 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[1877?]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 2.8 x 4.9 in.
  • Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographstrade cards
  • Biographical NoteThe Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design and typography to promote a wide variety of wares and services.
  • CreatorLewis & Percival, Grocers
  • PublisherShober & Carqueville Lithographing Company, Chicago
  • SubjectGrocers ; Groceries ; Canned meat ; Cigars ; Sailors ; Ships
  • CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.