About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0130
  • TitleLeaving the wreck [Harding Manufacturing Co.].
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Harding Manufacturing Co. Front of card: color illustration of men in boat leaving shipwreck surrounded by icebergs in a snowstorm with overlaid black text: These sailors do not suffer from the cold, the Chest-Shields they wear are the ones we sold. Back of card: black and white illustrations of chest-shield wool undershirt with text reading in part: No more colds! No more weak lungs! Conger's patent chest-shield undershirt...recommended by leading physicians as a garment of great value...try it and you will use none other. Business address: 467 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[1876-1900?]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 2.7 x 4.4 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.
  • CreatorHarding Manufacturing Co.
  • PublisherJ.H. Bufford's Sons
  • SubjectClothing stores ; Clothing and dress ; Underwear ; Ship wrecks ; Boats and boating ; Sailors
  • 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.