Image of six children indoors building a tower with a stack of oversized shoes and shoe boxes advertising S.D. Sollers & Company's children's shoes; fashion details include jackets, collared shirts, breeches, and hose for boys, knee-length full skirts with lace, ribbons, ruffles, hose, and fitted bodices for girls; accessories include gloves, shawl, hair ribbons, feathered hats, small handbag, cane, and heeled boots with buttons and scalloped trim. "Duval & Hunter, Lith. Phila."--text, bottom center margin. "E.C."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874 by S.D. Sollers & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Wash."--text, bottom right of image. "Buy the / celebrated shoes / stamped / Sollers & Co. / Phila."--text, bottom center of image. "S.D. Sollers / J.C. Austin / J.S. Outcalt"--text, top of shoe box, bottom left of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 33.66 x 46.2 cm (13 1/4 x 18 3/16 in.)
Advertising--Clothing and dress Children's clothing--Pictorial works Children's shoes--Pictorial works Fashion--Pictorial works Shoes--Pictorial works S.D. Sollers & 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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