About This Item
- Call NumberFULT_0166
- SummaryAdvertising card for the Brooklyn Furniture Co. Front of card: blue illustration of crying baby surrounded by flowers with text: The babies cry when you fail to buy of the Brooklyn Furniture Co. Back of card: sepia illustration of smiling baby surrounded by flowers with text: Buy at the Brooklyn Furniture Co. and make the children happy. Business address: 559 to 571 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY.
- Date[1879?]
- Physical Description1 print : color ; 4.5 x 2.75 in.
- CreatorBrooklyn Furniture Co.
- 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 ; Furniture ; Children; 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.
- TitleThe babies cry when you fail to buy of the Brooklyn Furniture Co.
- 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.