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The Regal Shoe
- Title:
- The Regal Shoe
- Alternate Title:
- The Regal Shoe
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- L. C. Bliss & Co.
- Date:
- 1898
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1127.01
- File Name:
- PJM_1127_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Work Type:
- advertisements
- Materials/Techniques:
- color printing
- Subject:
- Not So Persuasive
Advertising & Promotion
New York City
- Measurement:
- 27.5 x 41 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- An advertisement for Regal Shoes, superimposed on a birds-eye view of New York. Views of New York from this perspective were very popular at the end of the 19th century, particularly following the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. The link between the product and the map is questionable: "The total number of Regal Shoes sold in the year 1897 from our New York and Brooklyn stores, if made into one shoe, would be about 34 miles long and 17 miles high. This would cover in square miles a greater area than now covered by Greater New York."
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact
- Source:
- Coast Defence Edition of the Scientific American Supplement, July 9, 1898, p. 57.
- Repository:
- Private Collection of PJ Mode
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.
