Title: | Pencil sketches from Wechsler and Abraham's |
Description: | Pencil sketch, circa 1890, of crowd milling about entrance to Abraham & Straus department store on Fulton Street; ladies with parasols, horse-drawn carriages, etc. Caption on verso: "Carriage trade was really carriage trade in the period when this sketch was made, showing the crowds outside of Abraham & Straus." |
Date: | 1940 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Title from recto. On verso: date inscribed: Feb. 1/40. |
Collection: | Department Stores [4]
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Subject: |
Abraham & Straus. [5] Department stores [6] Horse-drawn vehicles [7] Consumers [8] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Drawings. Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library. |
ID: | DEPT 0028 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/0baf0ebe2e7041657e97ec2020fe7be6&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+Heights+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Department+Stores
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/a/Abraham %26 Straus.
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/d/Department stores
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Horse-drawn vehicles
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/c/Consumers