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Trade Card: Excelsior Clothing House, Baltimore, Maryland

This trade card advertises the Excelsior Clothing House in Baltimore, Maryland. The front of the card depicts a couple working amidst a pile of coins, suggesting prosperity and value. The style of the illustration and the overall design aesthetic suggest a late 19th-century production date. The back of the card is blank. [Solomon Weil (1850-1910) is listed as the owner of the business, and he is buried in Hebrew Friendship Cemetery in Baltimore. He was unmarried.]

Associated People/Businesses

Excelsior Clothing Store
Weil, Solomon

Geography

Baltimore

Subjects

Clothing trade
Jewish merchants
Advertising cards
Advertising

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 1, Folder 47