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Buster Brown's guaranteed stockings for men, women, and children

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825348


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Title

Buster Brown's guaranteed stockings for men, women, and children

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Hosiery -- 1910s

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1910

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC HOS-191

Subjects

Dogs
Hosiery -- 1910-1919
Buster Brown (Fictitious character)

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Written on mount: "Nov. 1, 1910" Printed on border: "Darn! Why darn? If you buy Buster Brown's guaranteed hosiery for the whole family there'll be no darning to do." "Silk lisle half hose for men, black, tan, navy, gray, heliotrope, purple and burgundy. Lisle hose for ladies, medium and gauze weight; black or tan. Combed Egyptian hose for boys, light and heavy weight, black or tan. Lisle fine gauge ribbed hose for misses, medium and light weight, black or tan. Misses' silk lisle fine gauge, ribbed, black or tan." "Buster Brown's hosiery mills, 540 Sherman Avenue, Chattanooga, Tenn." Includes additional text.
Source Note: Ladies home journal. (Philadelphia, Penn. : Curtis Publishing Co., 1887-).

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17660666
Barcode: 33333159383690
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f9d55d50-c553-012f-9518-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1910

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Buster Brown's guaranteed stockings for men, women, and children" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1910. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d55d50-c553-012f-9518-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1910). Buster Brown's guaranteed stockings for men, women, and children Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d55d50-c553-012f-9518-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Buster Brown's guaranteed stockings for men, women, and children" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f9d55d50-c553-012f-9518-58d385a7bc34

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