Description

Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures entitled "I see nothing will suit but Laird, Schober & Mitchell's," "Too fine to blacken!" "Oh! my!!..just look at them!!!" and "How beautifully they fit," depicting jokers or clowns, including one trying to fit a shoe on a seated female fairy with wings and a wand and another jumping rope and kicking an African American shoe shiner in the rear end. Also shows men admiring the shoes of their female companions and a woman in a parlor holding up her skirt to reveal her shoes as she inspects a sign inscribed "Laird, Shober & Mitchell, Philadelphia". Laird, Schober & Mitchell was a partnership formed by Samuel S. Laird, George P. Schober and George A. Mitchell.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Four prints [1975.F.488-491] contain advertising text printed on versos: A request before purchasing shoes. Examine ours. Prices are now reduced and goods finest manufactured. Laird, Schober & Mitchell, 1133 Arch Street, Philad'a.; Forms part of the Emily Phillips Advertising Card Collection.

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