Item #27713 Hub Gore Makers: Elastic for Shoes. Highest Gold Medal Awarded. Trade card with Uncle Sam image. Trade card, Uncle Sam.
Hub Gore Makers: Elastic for Shoes. Highest Gold Medal Awarded. Trade card with Uncle Sam image.

Hub Gore Makers: Elastic for Shoes. Highest Gold Medal Awarded. Trade card with Uncle Sam image.

Boston: Beacon Lith. Co., 1893. Ephemera. The Hub Gore company exhibited at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 where this card was handed out.

Printed by the Beacon Lith. Co. as a chromolithographed trade card with the text below reading: '"Uncle Sam," the Wonderful Edison Talking Automaton at the World's Fair, delivering 40,000 speeches during the exhibition about Highest Award, Gold Medal, Hub Gore.'

6 x 3.75", full color Uncle Sam on stilts in front of a crowd. Verso tan with b&w illustrations and text ('The Pair of Congress Shoes is Insured...', 2 red marks as printed. Fine. Item #27713

Price: $40.00

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