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T.F. Salter, hat maker, at the Gold Laced Hat and Fame, 47 Charing Cross, London military & naval

Creator:
Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), active 1814-1826
Published / Created:
[between 1793 and 1843]
Call Number:
File 66 793 Sa176
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Trade card of Thomas Frederick Salter, a milliner who ran several shops in London during the late eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth century. The shopfront of his longest-standing premises at 47 Charing Cross is depicted at the bottom of the card, its windows full of hats in various styles, mostly men's hats. At the top of the card a depiction of the process of hat making, showing a team of men working on different elements of the manufacturing process
Alternative Title:
Hat making
Description:
Title from item., Above design in ruled border: Hat making., Date based on information in London merchant and post office directories., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., With advertisement printed in letterpress on verso: The cheapest hat-warehouse in the world. Thomas Frederick Salter, with gratitude, offers his best thanks for the great and continual increase in business which he has experienced for several years ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T.F. Salter
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Millinery, Stores & shops, Hat industry, Window displays, Workshops, and Hats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > T.F. Salter, hat maker, at the Gold Laced Hat and Fame, 47 Charing Cross, London military & naval hats / [graphic]

2.
A new hat [graphic]

Creator:
Pyall, Henry, 1795-1833, printmaker
Published / Created:
[March 1826]
Call Number:
826.03.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man in fashionable clothes stands awkwardly on a city street outside the shop of McSight Hatter; he has a distressed look on his face as he holds his hat on. A dog at his feet has an umbrella on its back and turns and looks at the man with alarm
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Zounds! it pinches me like the very devil!!, Portion of imprint statement illegible due to paper damage; sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. [March], 1826 by T. Gillard, 40 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dogs, Hats, Hat industry, Umbrellas, and Men's clothing
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A new hat [graphic]

3.
Journeymen hatters dipping their master in the dye [graphic]

Creator:
Charles, William, 1776-1820, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
publishd. April 14th, 1806.
Call Number:
806.04.14.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Four employees of a hatter force their employer into a bath of black dye. One of the journeymen holds a beaver by its tail as it cries "He robbed me of my coat, and blam'd others for it." A young apprentice entering from the right holds out a fish to the beaver. In the foreground a black demon whose speech balloon reads, "Push him through my lads. I'll adopt him as one of my children."
Alternative Title:
Advertising reward proved to be a bad plan, by dipping the master's made black as his man
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark: Ruse & Turner 1805.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Hat industry, People associated with manual labor, Employee-employer relations, Dyes, Demons, Beavers, Gallows, and Irons (Pressing)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Journeymen hatters dipping their master in the dye [graphic]