About This Item


  • Call NumberFULT_0064
  • SummaryAdvertising card for Chas. W. Kitchen, druggist. Front of card: color illustration of flowers and inset text with business information including: branch at Brighton Beach, Coney Island. Back of card: black and white advertising text reading in part: Secret of beauty, for the complexion...a pure, harmless beautifier...softens, purifies, and beautifies the skin...contains neither paint, powder, lead, arsenic, or anything poisonous whatever...price 75 cents...Stone & Co., proprietors. Business address: Fulton and Washington Streets, Brooklyn, NY.
  • Date[1871?]
  • Physical Description1 print : color ; 2.6 x 4.25 in.
  • CreatorChas. W. Kitchen
  • 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]
  • SubjectPharmacists ; Drugs ; Medicine ; Cosmetics ; Beauty, Personal ; 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.
  • TitleCompliments of Chas. W. Kitchen, druggist.
  • 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.