About This Item


  • Call NumberFULT_0077
  • SummaryAdvertising card for G. Frank E. Pearsall. Front of card: color illustration of owls on a branch at left and text at right reading in part: Early attention is asked to orders for photo-portraits for the holidays. Back of card is blank. Business address: 298 Fulton Street, nearly opposite Loesers, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date1905-02-22
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 3.25 x 4.2 in.
  • CreatorFrank E. Pearsall [Pearsall, G. Frank E.]
  • CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
  • Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographstrade cards
  • PublisherF. Todd
  • SubjectPhotographers; Photographs ; Portraits ; Birds ; Flowers
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.
  • TitlePhoto-portraits for the holidays, G. Frank E. Pearsall.
  • 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.