Item #65905 NEW CLOTHING / AND / DRY GOODS STORE, / No. 11 Dauphin Street, Mobile. [5-line head, followed by an annoucement of the store's opening]. Advertising Broadside, Alabama, Mobile.

NEW CLOTHING / AND / DRY GOODS STORE, / No. 11 Dauphin Street, Mobile. [5-line head, followed by an annoucement of the store's opening].

Mobile, AL: Wm. H. Burdsall (Long & Carter, Printers, New York), 1839. Attractive broadside, 14 x 10 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, large all capitals for the first and third lines of the heading, text printed in blue, all enclosed in a decorative blue border, with vignettes of a steamboat, eagle and railroad at top and a steamboat and canal boat at bottom. In the center is a calendar for 1839. Dated Mobile, March, 1, 1839, the proprietor, Wm. H. Burdsall, announces the opening of a clothing and dry goods store, and lists items to be available. While listing hunting jackets, frock coats, velvet vests, etc., to show the level of luxurious material they would have on hand, under Dry Goods is listed “Negro Cloths.” Burdsall's store on Dauphin Street must have survived the fire in Mobile in October of 1839, or he rebuilt it, as it continued to advertise in the Mobile Daily Advertiser into the 1840s. Laid down on archival paper, few small chips along edge of border, but an attractive ante-bellum Mobile broadside, suitable for exhibition. Item #65905

[MOBILE] [BUSINESS] [BROADSIDE] New Clothing / and / Dry Goods Store, / No. 11 Dauphin Street, Mobile. / [5-line head, followed by an announcement of the store’s opening]. Mobile, AL: Wm. H. Burdsall (Long & Carter, Printers, New York), 1839. Attractive broadside, 14 x 10 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type,

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