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Sunlight and Glass, Pleasonton and Prisms
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Kitty Foyle and Philadelphia, the “grand homey old town”
The TOWN CRIER and the Talkies: Jay Emanuel and Other Reel Fellows
The Hexter Building: Hollywood on Vine and on Point Breeze
Worth Looking Into
Malaugurata Città: Lorenzo Da Ponte and Philadelphia

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AA Boston, Dyer Rce+3 5 drs ab Philadelphia Directory and Register, 1822 — Philadelphia Directory and Register, 1822

Philadelphia Index and Directory, 1823

BB J+WC Gregory, boys clothing+mourning dress 83 Chs os 1827 NATIONAL GAZETTE AND LITERARY REGISTER 16 Aug 1827 - Copy — National Gazette and Literary Register, 16 August 1827

Sml Chubb,235 2s and Wm F. McGlinsey, 232 2s, mourning lawns — Pennsylvania Inquirer, 13 July 1839

O Conrad Wc MOURNING Jwl big ad 2+Quarry 1847 - Copy — M’Elroy’s Philadelphia Directory, 1847

Owen Evans+Co cheap store,45 8n SANITARY FAIR — Sanitary Fair Catalogue and Guide, 1864

Curwen Stoddart+Bro, drygoods 450-54 2n — Sanitary Fair Catalogue and Guide, 1864

Mrs MA Binder, Temple of Fashion 1031 Chs Freedley 1867 230 - Copy — Philadelphia and Its Manufactures, 1867

Hotel Rooms Business Directory, 1870

Mrs A Dillon fancy+mourning millinery 323 331 Sth Eve Tel 10 2 71 p2 - Copy — Evening Telegraph, 10 February 1871

Besson+Son fabric 2nd mourning poplin 918 Chs INQ 25 Feb 1875 - Copy — Inquirer, 25 February 1875. See the shop sign in “Chestnut Street in the snow. . . ” in the Henry B. Odiorne Photograph Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Jos G Darlington 1022 Chestnut tx mourning goods INQUIRER 25 Feb 1875 - Copy — Inquirer, 25 February 1875

The Press, 19 July 1876

Great Combination Store 627-29 Chs InternatlExhib.1876Official CatalogueComplete in One Volume HATHI2016-03-27 (7) — International Exhibition…Official Catalogue Complete in One Volume, 1876

Inquirer, 10 March 1877

Inquirer, 12 March 1877

Inquirer, 17 March 1877

Inquirer, 4 April 1877

Inquirer, 13 April 1877

Inquirer, 14 April 1877, detail

Wanamaker’s advertisement (partial), Inquirer, 20 April 1877

Inquirer, 24 April 1877, detail

Inquirer, 8 May 1877

Inquirer, 14 May 1877

Inquirer, 15 May 1877

Inquirer, 17 May 1877

Inquirer, 21 May 1877

Inquirer, 28 May 1877

Inquirer, 4 June 1877. In May and June more than a dozen different advertisements for this new store appeared in the Inquirer.

Inquirer, 7 June 1877

Inquirer, 11 June 1877

Inquirer, 21 June 1877

Important Events of the Century, 1877. Dress reform promoted rational clothing; this was the era of the emancipation bodice.

Wanamaker Grand Depot mail catalog mourning goods 1879_0016 - Copy — Catalogue and Guide for Shopping by Mail, Wanamaker Grand Depot, 1879

Quiz, April 1881

Jones and Fisher, Phila Mourning Store 918 Chs THE AMERICAN 88 15 Apr 1882 p14 - Copy — The American, 15 April 1882

Powells dg notions blk gds 1533 Clm 1892 Grace Bp Visiting List_0044 - Copy — Grace Baptist Visiting List, 1892

Bowen Dungan+Co millinery supply 715 19 Arc 1894 City of Phila_0230 — The City of Philadelphia as It Appears in the Year 1894, ” ” 1900

Church Standard, 1901

Boyd’s Elite List, 1903

Wanamaker Diary, 1906

Gimbel Bros catalogue 1907 see p111 mourning dress p118 — Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia, catalogue, 1907

Inquirer, 23 June 1914

Wanamaker’s advertisement partial, Inquirer, 9 November 1925

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