About This Item

  • Call NumberFULT_0120
  • Title"Look at Our Backs!" [Collins' Japanese Store].
  • SummaryAdvertising card for an exhibition at Collins' Japanese store. Front of card: color illustration of two kittens wearing bonnets and sewing with caption in blue text: Look at our backs! Back of card: blue text reading in part: Truth New York has on exhibition in the show window of Collins' Japanese store...$1,500 in presents! To be given free to lucky guessers...a free guessing coupon with each copy of Truth [magazine]. Hon. Chauncey Depew decides it. Business address: 457 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[1891-1892?]
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 3.5 x 2.25 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.
  • CreatorCollins' Japanese Store [John S. Collins]
  • Publisher[publisher not identified]
  • SubjectStores, Retail ; Pottery, Japanese ; Prize contests in advertising ; Contests ; Periodicals ; Cats ; Animals ; Sewing
  • 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.