Advertising card for Warner Brothers Coraline Corset

Advertising card for Warner Brothers Coraline Corset

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Corsets -- History
Women's Clothing -- History -- 19th Century
Amherst (Mass.)

Trade card distributed by H. B. Edwards & Co., an Amherst clothing store that operated in Merchants' Row from the 1880's to about 1915. The store specialized in ladies' fine underwear. The advertisement is for Warner Brothers Coraline Corsets, introduced in 1881. Coraline was a new stiffening agent that was much more flexible (and comfortable) than horn, reed, or whalebone, materials that were commonly used in corsets.

Jones Library Special Collections

Circa 1885

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English

Cards

Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards

Advertising card

3 x 5 in.