Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a receipt from J. E. Boyce documenting the purchase of two months' advertising, 1885. The receipt shows a drawing of several people seated in a streetcar at left, and has writing above, to the right of, and below the image. The writing across the top is as follows: "Your 'ad' is never 'laid over' in the Street Cars. Everybody rides in the Street Cars. You can watch your 'ad' in the Street cars, and see that you get what you pay for". The writing on the right is as follows: "Los Angeles, April 26th 1885 [?] Elsinore to J. E. Boyce, Dr. Office, 120 N. Main St. With Marley & Freeman, Job Printers. The writing at the bottom contains the details of the deal: "To two months' advertising in [?] $2.50 Rec'd Payment, J. E. Boyce".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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