Notes:
Trade catalog.
[60] leaves of card stock, mounted on tabs. Some pages appear to be missing.
A perfume manufacturer's sample book of original photographs of perfume bottles and mounted chromolithographed labels. Most of the photographs are colored by hand and cut in the shape of the bottle represented. Also includes bottles and labels for other products such as hair dye, shaving soap, and vinegar. Each image is identified by a handwritten number, for ordering purposes.
Includes perfume bottles and labels, bottles and labels for hair dye, shaving soap, and vinegar.
Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in July 2010.
Displayed in the exhibition titled "Selections from the Rakow Research Library", held at the Rakow Research Library March 19-May 17, 2015.
Displayed in the exhibition titled "Perfume bottles : from design table to dressing table", held at the Rakow Research Library, November 26, 2007-February 1, 2008.
Previous owner dated c.1880.