Samuel Copp's Business Cards
date: label: date made
content: 1812 - 1815
name: label: user
content: Copp, Jr., Samuel
label: owner
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: These business cards belonged to Samuel Copp (born 1787) who owned the wholesale and retail dry goods store Samuel Copp and Company located at 197 Broadway in New York City. Samuel served in the war of 1812 and retired to Stonington, Connecticut around 1815.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place owned
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006513.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6513.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, trade
label: Object Type
content: trade cards
label: Other Terms
content: Trade Cards; Printed
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper, laid (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, each: 2 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 6.35 cm x 9.2075 cm