Image of three rubber shoes and boots outdoors near a body of water surrounded by caricature little people or brownies of various professions and ethnicities, including an African tribesman, a Frenchman with a bomb, a chef, a musketeer, a fireman, an admiral, an American Indian, a robber with a drill, a lumberjack, a farmer with a pitchfork, a pair of sailors tugging a rope, a soldier with dynamite, and many more attempting to destroy or snag the rubber footwear with no success. Date supplied by cataloger based on caption in "The Color Explosion" by Jay T. Last. "Ketterlinus / Philadelphia."--text, bottom left of image. "Trade mark / registered."--text, bottom left of image. Registration marks visible in corners and margins.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 61.28 x 46.2 cm (24 1/8 x 18 3/16 in.)
Advertising--Clothing and dress Elves--Pictorial works Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Footwear Rubber industry and trade Shoes--Pictorial works Lambertville Rubber Co Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Proofs. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Fashion Large Size Footwear The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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