Trade Card: Solomon Levi, Clothing and Furnishing Goods, Reading, Pennsylvania

This trade card advertises the business of Solomon Levi, located at 652 Penn Ave., Reading, Pennsylvania. The front of the card features an illustration of cats in a basket.  Below the illustration, the text indicates the address. The name "William Umbenhauer" appears, possibly identifying a salesman. The back of the card contains a full advertisement. [Solomon Levi is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Reading, Pennsylvania. His first wife, Amelia née Sundheim, died September 25, 1880, at the age of 32 and was buried at the Hebrew Cemetery on Neversink Mt. in Reading. She was survived by Solomon, a son of about 9, and a daughter of about 6. The 1880 census shows that Hannah Sondheim was Amelia's sister. After Amelia's death, Hannah married her widowed brother-in-law, Solomon, and they had a son, Abraham, in 1886.]

Associated People/Businesses

• Solomon Levi
• LEVI, SOL.

Geography

• Reading

Subjects

• Clothing trade
• Jewish merchants
• Advertising cards
• Cats

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 19, Folder 10