TitleCowperthwait furniture and carpets, established 1807.
SummaryAdvertising card for Cowperthwait furniture and carpets. Front of card: color illustration of exterior scene with boy feeding donkey and boy and girl in grass with flowers and with inset black text with business information. 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, stoves and refrigerators...credits to suit all. Business address: 408, 410, and 412 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. 153, 155 &157 Chatham Street, New York. See also FULT_0112 & FULT_0116 for same card with slightly different illustration.
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.