About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0160
  • TitleBuy the celebrated Butterfly Chop...sold at the Columbia Tea Store.
  • SummaryAdvertising card for the Columbia Tea & Coffee Store. Front of card: color illustration of a rose and a flower wreath surrounding text: Buy the Celebrated Butterfly Chop, the best tea! The cheapest!! The only genuine!!! Sold at the Columbia Tea Store. Back of card: blue text reading: The Columbia Tea & Coffee Store, Campbell and Creighton, coffee roasters, importers and jobbers of teas, wholesale and retail grocers. Business address: 549 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. See also related card FULT_0158.
  • Date[date of publication not identified]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 4 x 2.75 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.
  • CreatorColumbia Tea & Coffee Store
  • Publisher[publisher not identified]
  • SubjectStores, Retail ; Coffee roasting industry ; Tea ; Groceries ; Food ; Flowers
  • 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.