The best in the market / H. Thomas. – 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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This antique lithograph of The best in the market / H. Thomas. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The best in the market / H. Thomas.
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Its title, "The best in the market," reads as a sales pitch, and the print is an advertisement for meat and livestock dealers. New York lithographers Kimmel & Voigt published it around 1872, and H. Thomas signed his name on the stone, so the drawing was made directly for printing. Color lithographs like this were a common way for merchants of the period to get their names in front of customers, often hung in shops or butcher stalls. Its mix of livestock and meat subjects shows how closely the trade in animals and the trade in cuts of meat were tied together in the 1870s.
| Created / published | N.Y. : lith. & publ. by Kimmel & Voigt, c1872. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | C2458D2 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone: On stone H. Thomas. Copyright by Kimmel & Voigt. |
| Subjects | Meat--1870-1880. Livestock--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,455 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218307 |
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