Herring & Co.
Centennial Exhibition
Item Info
Item No: c110250
Title: Herring & Co.
Additional Title: Herring & Co., Principal Offices, 251 & ...
Series:
Tradecard
Media Type: Tradecards
Notes: "1775 1875 Thos. Herring, Herrings's Minuteman safes estab. 1841, both stand fire" -- Verso of card.
Notes: 1 trade card : 24 x 15 cm.
Notes: Exhibit title: Herring & Co., New York, N.Y., Exhibit #414, Main Building, Bldg. #1.
Notes: Recto: Three panel trade card for Herring & Co. Top: open Herring safe showing structure of three doors; middle: three men happily examining contents of Herring's safe pulled from burning building in background; another man sadly looks on damaged "Not Herring's safe" with firemen and engine in background; bottom: in elegant parlor, woman placing silver into open Herring safe.
Notes: Trifold trade card.
Notes: Verso: Three panel trade card for Herring & Co. Top, left: three burglars stealing from "Not a Herring safe;" right: two burglars failing to break into Herring safe; middle: intertwined text ribbon between a minuteman statue and Herring & Co. champion safe, in fire; bottom: wagon carrying Herring safe, past Madison Wall Street Ferry,on busy street. Pedestrians in foreground. Chromolithograph.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1314993
Call Number: c110250
Subjects
- Advertising
- Carriages & coaches
- Carts & wagons
- Centennial Exhibition
- Chromolithographs
- Criminals
- Fire-resistive construction
- Fires
- Main Building
- Men
- Participation, New York (State)
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Sculpture
- Soldiers
- Trade cards
- Women
- People
- Silverwork
- Herring & Co.
- Safes
- Security systems
- Fire engines
- Firefighters
- Robberies
- Locks (Hardware)
- Massachusetts
- New York, New York
- New York (State)
- Firefighting equipment
Herring & Co.
Herring & Co.