SummaryAdvertising card for Chas. W. Kitchen, druggist. Front of card: color illustration of flowers and inset text with business information including: branch at Brighton Beach, Coney Island. Back of card: black and white advertising text reading in part: Secret of beauty, for the complexion...a pure, harmless beautifier...softens, purifies, and beautifies the skin...contains neither paint, powder, lead, arsenic, or anything poisonous whatever...price 75 cents...Stone & Co., proprietors. Business address: Fulton and Washington Streets, Brooklyn, NY.
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.