The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated  5 September 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE      ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> The Universal Fashion Company, 40 E. 12th Street, NYC #40 E. 12th St., NYC Google Street View, Sept 2014 3 interpretations of this Street View are presented under New York City in Photographers Street View return address on envelope acquired by the Diver collection 3 awards from the back of the envelope above Volume 1 no. 5, June 1887 issue of Audubon Magazine  (Archive.org) carried the following ad for Universal on page 119: The Church Review (Google Books)  carried this ad for the Universal Fashion Company: Title The Church Review , Volume 46, p.614 Author Henry Mason Baum Publisher Church Press Company, 1885 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized Mar 5, 2009 The Universal Fashion Company's publication "Perfect Fitting Patterns" was available in several local retail...

updated 28 September 2021 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> The elephant depicted here is "Jumbo," and the advertising sequence is a play on actual events that happened when Jumbo was purchased (along with the Bailey Circus operation) by P.T. Barnum, forming the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus.  For more on the story of Jumbo, see the next page of this blog . "Jumbo reaching for candy" "Jumbo objects to being put in irons" "Jumbo with his new friends, Madison Square Garden, NY" "Prospective fun for the children" The American Electric Company installed electric lights in the F.H. Allis & Co. building in January of 1882 according to this Google Books resource : Title Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century Author W. Bernard Carlson Edition revised Publisher Camb...