Image of a variety of shoe, boot, and gaiter styles interspersed with several cartoons and vignettes surrounding a larger center cartoon of men and women caricatures fishing for various "Centennial wants" in the crowd below; cartoons include African American, Chinese, American Indian, and Hindi men; name and number key text below each shoe style; image of Henry Arthur's business building and storefront in New York City at top center of print advertising "leather findings wholesale & retail." Single-color print. "March 1876"--text, center of image. "Our centennial exposition"--text, bottom center of image. "Dealer in leather and findings"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 47.94 x 61.28 cm (18 7/8 x 24 1/8 in.)
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Advertising--Clothing and dress Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Footwear Shoe industry Storefronts--Pictorial works Arthur, Henry Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Caricatures. (gmgpc)
Place
New York (N.Y.)
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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