Philosophical Milliners Store – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Philosophical Milliners Store in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The shop name, Philosophical Milliners Store, sets this print apart, and it reads as a deliberate joke about trade and pretension. It was made in 1832 to illustrate Frances Trollope's *Domestic Manners of the Americans*, a London book based on her time in the United States and known for its sharp view of American society. Lithography, a fairly new printing method then, let publishers reproduce scenes like this with considerable detail. The catalog record is old and not fully verified, but the subject is clear: women at work in a shop, drawn with a satirical eye.
| Created / published | 1832 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans. 1832, after p. 12. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Occupations; Occupations; Shops; Social satire. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 915 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145638 |
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