IMAGE
D H Blackie Ltd.: Manhattan frocks [Show card. ca 1945]
- Date
- 1939 - 1945
- By
- D H Blackie Ltd
- Reference
- Eph-C-COSTUME-1945-01
- Description
Display card with cardboard stand on verso shows a woman in a tailored knee-length dress and white gloves, holding a Dalmatian dog on a lead, and posing in front of central Manhattan skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building.
Words printed on the verso: "This card is loaned for display purposes by courtesy of the makers of Manhattan coats and frocks, D H Blackie Ltd., Dunedin".
Date estimated from the style of the dress shown. "Manhattan" frocks were being advertised in New Zealand newspaper from as early as 1939 see "Press" (Christchurch), 31 January 1939, page 4. However the company was listed in trade directories until at least 1965.
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph on heavy card, 517 x 384 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Posters, Photolithographs, Photolithograph on heavy card, 517 x 384 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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