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Trade card promoting pianos made by the Cable Company of Chicago for sale at the Thomas Shaw Company of Wichita. Two-sided, embossed card. Obverse is full-color and features a framed scene of a country village with flowers above and below. Reverse printed in black and red with information about the Cable Company. Thomas Shaw, "The Music Man" of Wichita, was in business from about 1885 until his retirement in 1905. The Cable Piano Company, sometimes called just The Cable Company, was founded in Chicago in 1880, and they added a factory in St. Charles in 1901.
Creator: Thomas Shaw Company
Date: between 1901 and 1905
Item Number: 339045
Call Number: 1960.36.16
KSHS Identifier: 1960.36.16
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Advertising
Business and Industry - Retail - Music stores
Collections - Museum - Main gallery - Retail Trade
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Card - Trade
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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