About This Item
- Call NumberFULT_0157
- SummaryAdvertising card for The Fair. Front of card: color illustration of two women holding bouquets of roses with text: Perfumed with Austen's forest flower cologne, W.J. Austen & Co., Oswego, N.Y. Back of card: black text reading in part: The Fair. Frank & Co., proprietors, dealers in house furnishing goods, crockery, glassware, stationery, jewelry, silverware, leather goods, &c. Our specialty: 5 and 10 cent goods...forest flower cologne. Price 15, 25, 50c. and $1 per bottle. Business address: 549 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
- Date[date of publication not identified]
- Physical Description1 print : color ; 4.5 x 2.75 in.
- CreatorFrank & Co., Proprietors
- CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
- Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- Formatstill imagetext
- Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographstrade cards
- Publisher[publisher not identified]
- SubjectStores, Retail ; House furnishings ; Stationery ; Variety stores ; Perfumes ; Flowers
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
- TitlePerfumed with Austen's forest flower cologne [The Fair].
- Biographical NoteThe Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design and typography to promote a wide variety of wares and services.