About This Item


  • Call NumberFULT_0082
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Wheeler & Wilson manufacturing co. [sewing machines]. Front of card: color illustration of exterior scene with child falling and animal running and text: See Wheeler & Wilson's new automatic no.8 machine. Back of card: black text reading in part: Buy a standard article from a reliable company...buy from a aompany that has been established for years...W.S. Smith, Agt, Pearsalls, L.I., D.A. Jones, Agt., Roslyn, L.I. and penciled text: Now Lynbrook. Business address: 306 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY. See related card FULT_0245.
  • Date[1881?]
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 2.9 x 4.4 in.
  • CreatorWheeler & Wilson [Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. Sewing Machines]
  • CollectionFulton Street Trade Card collection
  • Cite AsFulton Street Trade Card collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatstill imagetext
  • Genreadvertisementsbusiness cardschromolithographstrade cards
  • PublisherSunshine Pub. Co. Phila.
  • SubjectStores, Retail ; Sewing machines ; Sewing ; Children
  • 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.
  • TitleSee Wheeler & Wilson's new automatic no. 8 machine.
  • 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.