About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0113
  • TitleCowperthwait furniture and carpets, 1807-1881.
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Cowperthwait furniture and carpets. Front of card: color illustration of children sledding toward man carrying two baskets and frowning with business information overlaid in black text. Back of card: black text reading in part: Established over three score and ten years, B. M. Cowperthwait Co., wholesale and retail dealers in furniture and carpets...parlor, chamber, and dining-room suits...mattresses...window shades...curtains, etc. Business address: 408, 410, and 412 Fulton Street, corner of Gallatin Place, Brooklyn, NY. See also FULT_0117 for similar card with slightly different illustration.
  • Date1881
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 4.9 x 3.1 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.
  • CreatorB. M. Cowperthwait Co.
  • PublisherChas. Shields' Sons 20 & 22 Gold St. N.Y.
  • SubjectStores, Retail ; Furniture ; Carpets ; House furnishings ; Sledding ; Children
  • 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.