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Fresh oysters--Thos. J. Myer & Co., Baltimore / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Balto. – Historic Print

Fresh oysters--Thos. J. Myer & Co., Baltimore / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Balto., 1870 — historic image
Fresh oysters--Thos. J. Myer & Co., Baltimore / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Balto., 1870. Historic image from the Animals 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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Fresh oysters--Thos. J. Myer & Co., Baltimore / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Balto.

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Made in 1870 to advertise Thos. J. Myer & Co., a Baltimore seafood business selling fresh oysters, this lithograph is a plainly commercial piece. Baltimore was one of the great oyster markets of the nineteenth century, drawing on the Chesapeake Bay beds and shipping shellfish to towns across the region. The print came from A. Hoen & Co., a Baltimore lithographic firm that produced advertising sheets, trade cards and labels like this one. Its display lettering and eye-catching image show how businesses of the period relied on printed pictures to draw customers before modern magazine and newspaper advertising took hold.

Created / published1870
SubjectsA. Hoen & Co., lithographer.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,430 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
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