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- Description:
- American Fibre Chamois Company trade card promoting the dry goods store, J. Sparling and Company of Detroit. A color lithograph of a woman in a brown dress and hat with the caption "Fibre Chamois," is on the recto. The verso contains the text of an 1895 letter from actress and singer Lillian Russell praising the "genuine fibre chamois" from the American Fibre Chamois Company used by New York dressmaker Redfern, as well as the name of J. Sparling and Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook containing a fourteen page catalog of dry goods sold by Edson, Moore and Company, located at 188, 190, and 192 Jefferson Avenue. Handwritten notes have been made beside several of the items listed in the catalog. The booklet also includes a calendar for 1880, a fold-out map of Detroit, with Edson, Moore and Company's location marked, and a page of postage information. The portion of the booklet containing lined pages for notes has been left blank. The booklet is bound in a brown cover printed in gold with an advertisement for Edson, Moore and Company on the front cover, featuring a figure in Japanese-inspired garb holding a parasol and fan at the foot of a flight of stairs.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook containing a fourteen page catalog of dry goods sold by Edson, Moore and Company, located at 188, 190, and 192 Jefferson Avenue. Handwritten notes have been made beside several of the items listed in the catalog. The booklet also includes a calendar for 1880, a fold-out map of Detroit, with Edson, Moore and Company's location marked, and a page of postage information. The portion of the booklet containing lined pages for notes has been left blank. The booklet is bound in a brown cover printed in gold with an advertisement for Edson, Moore and Company on the front cover, featuring a figure in Japanese-inspired garb holding a parasol and fan at the foot of a flight of stairs.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- American Fibre Chamois Company trade card promoting the dry goods store, J. Sparling and Company of Detroit. A color lithograph of a woman in a brown dress and hat with the caption "Fibre Chamois," is on the recto. The verso contains the text of an 1895 letter from actress and singer Lillian Russell praising the "genuine fibre chamois" from the American Fibre Chamois Company used by New York dressmaker Redfern, as well as the name of J. Sparling and Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
