Jul 19, 2017
Dainty miss, of germs be wary / Is your towel sanitary?
Ready to hit the beach for your #LibraryGetaway? This circa 1910 trade card promotes San-Knit-Tary Textile Mills, which manufactured knitted hand, face, bath, and beach towels. Simon Muhr founded the Philadelphia Straw Braid Sewing Machine Company in 1879, which eventually became the Unique Textile Mills around the turn of the century. The name changed once again in 1907 to the San-knit-ary Textile Mills.
What the wild waves are saying. [graphic]. [Philadelphia] [ca. 1910] 1 print : halftone photomechanical print ; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)