Image of a cartoon portraying a large fish-shaped air ship vessel with wings (referred to as Maxwell's "cutter") flying over a train and a large crowd of people rushing to purchase dry goods from Maxwell's; airship features include a smoke stack, admiral at the steering wheel for the rudder/tail, and visible interior mechanical parts; men and women rush below to buy Maxwell's goods, including a man on horseback and sailors carrying a box labeled "D. Jones Locker." "Duross, Printer, Black Horse Alley, (off Second Street,) between Market and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia"--text, bottom center margin. "Come and see the splendid / new stock of goods, / Just arrived, direct from Boston, New York and Philad'a. All kinds of beautiful dress goods, for the Ladies and Misses; / Cassimeres, Cloths, Kentucky Jeans, and everything for Men and Boy's wear at unusually Low Prices. / Ready-made clothing / Boots, shoes, hats, caps & bonnets / Hardware and queensware, cutlery, drugs, patent medicines, &c. ... Fredonia, Ky. Sept., 1859 E.L. Maxwell & Co."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 wood engraving : color printed ; overall 70.64 x 60.8 cm (27 13/16 x 23 15/16 in.)
Advertising--Clothing and dress Airships--Pictorial works Dry-goods Footwear Hat trade Hardware E.L. Maxwell & Co Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Caricatures. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Prints and Ephemera Collection Fashion Large Size Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
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