Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: silk

A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself and her daughter from the menacing approaches of a giraffe and seal in this nineteenth-century advertising trade card by M. F. Tobin for Hayward's, a dry goods store in New York City. Hayward's 131 Eighth Avenue, bet. 16th & 17th Sts., New York. Silk umbrellas, $1.00 & $1.50 a specialty. Repairing & recovering. Copyrighted 1881, M. F. Tobin, N.Y.

"I'm all ears. Tell me all about it. Wall." A corny postcard by illustrator Bernhardt Wall .

Spring Opening on Saturday, April 22d, 1871. On the above day the subscriber will have her Spring Opening, when she will display a large variety of bonnets, hats, flowers, ribbons, silk, guipure and cotton laces, crapes, veils, nets, collars, cuffs, &c. Ladies are cordially invited to call and examine her assortment, whether they purchase or not. Mrs. M. A. Zinn, Main Street, West of Penn, Shippensburg, Pa.