Advertising card, Pingree & Smith footwear
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Description
View of an advertising card for Pingree & Smith footwear of Detroit, Michigan. Card depicts a fireman rushing down stairs, while getting dressed. Printed on front: "The fireman. The midnight alarm. Buy Pingree & Smith's reliable foot-wear. For sale by leading dealers throughout Michigan and the west. (over)." Printed on back: "$1000.00 reward! For shoddy or spurious leather of any kind found in any shoe made by us in the past twenty-three years. Pingree & Smith, Detroit, Mich. Pioneer shoe manufacturers of the west. Established 1866. There's nothing like leather, we use no imitations."
Details
- Resource ID:
- bh010074
- Subject:
- Boots--Caricatures and cartoons
- Fire fighters--Caricatures and cartoons
- Advertising--Shoes
- Advertising cards
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 advertising card : col. : 4.5 x 3 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- E&M 74D4 381 P
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.