Caucasian salesman showing four Chinese men the new Celluloid cuffs. The Chinese men are shown with unattractive grimaces and exaggerated queues standing straight up. A box or pedestal in the right foreground is labeled, "The last / invention." The card scanned has the imprint, "For sale by / E.C. Horne, 10 Main Street." just under the image, with the Donaldson Brothers imprint below the picture border at right. Duplicate cards in the collection have the Donaldson imprint, but other dealers' rubber stamp imprints on either the recto or verso of the cards include Spear Custom Clothier, Weymouth; Lipscomb the Hatter, Worcester, Mass., etc.
Local Numbers:
AC0060-0000078.tif
General:
In Box 16, Folder 1
Series Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Men's Clothing, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
