Can I read Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog : Fashions, Dry Goods, and Housewares on EtoBox?

Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog : Fashions, Dry Goods, and Housewares by Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village; Bloomingdale's (Firm) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog : Fashions, Dry Goods, and Housewares about?

In the spring and summer of 1886, a popular New York department store advertised its wares in a finely illustrated catalog featuring everything from clothing, accessories, and housewares, to jewelry, leather goods, school supplies, and dry goods. This excellent reproduction of that now-rare Bloomingdale Brothers catalog provides fascinating views of approximately 1,700 mid-Victorian consumer items (all finely drawn and easy to reproduce) together with the original descriptive captions. An informative introduction by Nancy Villa Bryk, Curator of Domestic Life at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, precedes an entertaining panorama of fashions and other articles that include a stylish boucle jacket trimmed in velvet, a woman's tight-waisted riding costume, a variety of little girls' checkered pinafores (averaging about 35 cents apiece), infants' bibs, nurses' caps and aprons, men's nightshirts, suspenders, and smoking jackets; hosiery, hair goods, notions, parasols, silverware, toys, upholstery goods, fine millinery, delicate white laces, exquisite gold jewelry (remarkably inexpensive by today's standards), as well as "willow ware, walking sticks, zephyr worsteds, and fancy

Who reads Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog : Fashions, Dry Goods, and Housewares?

Author

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village; Bloomingdale's (Firm)

Publisher

Published for Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich. by Dover Publications; Dover Publications

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486257808

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Technology, Economics

Rating

4.23 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14