Image of an indoor vignette featuring three women wearing hoop skirts with tapes, one in a long green dress with train and overskirt, the other town in chemise blouses, corsets, and Odessa's "collapsing skirts" with petticoats, pantalettes, and boots; smaller image of the Odessa Skirt Co. building with a horse-drawn cart unloading goods pictured below; both images are framed by a draped American flag and leaves. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history. "Brett & Co. 83, Nassau St N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Patented & manufactured / by / the Odessa Skirt Co. / Gloucester, / Mass.."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 65.88 x 50.64 cm (25 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Advertising--Clothing and dress Clothing trade Foundation garments--Pictorial works Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works Storefronts--Pictorial works Women's clothing--Pictorial works Odessa Skirt Co Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Fashion Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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