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Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring and summer 1854, published & sold by F. Mahan, no. 211 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia. – Antique Print

Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring and summer 1854, published & sold by F. Mahan, no. 211 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia., [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print
Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring and summer 1854, published & sold by F. Mahan, no. 211 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia., [no date recorded on shelflist card]. Historic print from the New York City collection.

(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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A window into the past: Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring and summer 1854, published & sold by F. Mahan, no. 211 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring and summer 1854, published & sold by F. Mahan, no. 211 Chestnut Stret, Philadelphia.

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Few fashion plates from the 1850s set three cities side by side as this one does, comparing Paris, New York and Philadelphia for the spring and summer of 1854. The publisher, F. Mahan, worked from Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, and the record links the print to P.S. Duval & Co., a Philadelphia lithographic firm. Fashion prints like this circulated to dressmakers and readers who wanted to follow styles from abroad and at home, so the comparison is the point. The record gives no date beyond the title, so the 1854 season is the best guide to when it was made.

Created / published[no date recorded on shelflist card]
Medium1 print.
NotesThis record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Duval, (P.S.) & Co. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 104.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109905

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