About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0209
  • TitleG. Gowan, boots & shoes.
  • SummaryAdvertising card for G. Gowan. Front of card: color illustration of flowers surrounding a card with business name and address and text: Boots & shoes. Back of card: black and white illustration of upside down boot and text: Where do you get your boots & shoes? At the gold boot upside down. Ladies, gents, & children's boots & shoes, made to order. Repairing neatly done. Business address: 828 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[date of publication not identified]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 2.5 x 4.1 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.
  • CreatorG. Gowan
  • Publisher[publisher not identified]
  • SubjectShoe stores ; Flowers ; Shoes ; Boots ; Clothing and dress ; Shoemakers
  • 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.