Trade Catalogue of Masks, Theatrical Hair Goods, Properties, &c.

Dessart Brothers

1893–94 · Illustrations: wood engraving · Drawings and Prints

New York has long been a shopping mecca and from about 1850 many stores issued paper booklets to advertise their wares. Dessart Brothers, at 110 Chambers Street, sold masks and wigs useful to actors and to those planning costume parties and amateur theatricals.

Artist

Dessart Brothers

Date

1893–94

Medium

Illustrations: wood engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1969