St. Nicholas Restaurant. Shell oysters received daily by express. ... B. Roth & Sons, prop'rs / C.N. Morris, engraver & printer, Cin. – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of St. Nicholas Restaurant. Shell oysters received daily by express. ... B. Roth & Sons, prop'rs / C.N. Morris, engraver & printer, Cin.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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St. Nicholas Restaurant. Shell oysters received daily by express. ... B. Roth & Sons, prop'rs / C.N. Morris, engraver & printer, Cin.
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St. Nicholas Restaurant in Cincinnati is the subject here, and its printed promise of shell oysters received daily by express points to how the trade depended on rail shipping to an inland city far from the coast. Proprietors B. Roth & Sons used the card to advertise, and C.N. Morris, an engraver and printer in the same city, produced the colored image. Restaurants and oyster houses were a busy part of urban life in the 1870s, and this piece shows how businesses promoted their fresh seafood to passing customers.
| Created / published | c1873. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1870-1880.Engravings Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 10888D U.S. Copyright Office. . |
| Subjects | Restaurants--Ohio--Cincinnati--1870-1880. Waiters--Ohio--Cincinnati--1870-1880. Oysters--Ohio--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,163 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216990 |
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