About This Item
- Call NumberFULT_0158
- SummaryAdvertising card for the Columbia Tea & Coffee Store. Card is shaped like and depicts an artist's paint palette with blobs of paint and an illustration of interior scene with man getting dressed in tuxedo in front of mirror. Back of card: black text reading: From the Columbia Tea & Coffee Store...Campbell & Creighton, teas and coffees, strictly pure. Business address: 549 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
- Date[date of publication not identified]
- Physical Description1 print : color ; 4.25 x 3 in.
- CreatorColumbia Tea & Coffee Store
- CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
- Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- Formatstill imagetext
- Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographsdie cuttingtrade cards
- Publisher[publisher not identified]
- SubjectGrocers ; Groceries ; Tea ; Men ; Painting
- 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.
- TitleFrom the Columbia Tea & Coffee Store.
- 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.