Subject: California -- Los Angeles

This trade card advertises Jacoby Bros., a clothing and shoe retailer with locations in Los Angeles, California. The card features a pleasant landscape scene depicting flowers, grass, a small pond, and houses in the distance. The card lists two addresses: 128 to 138 North Spring Street and 123 North Main Street. [Jacoby Bros. was one of Los Angeles' largest dry goods retailers in the 1880s and 1890s. Isaac, Nathan, Charles, Abraham, and Lessor Jacoby went into business in 1878, joining with Leopold Harris in buying out Herman W. Hellman's store. The Jacoby brothers, Leopold Harris, and Harris Newmark all came from the same town of Löbau, West Prussia (later part of the German Empire, now Lubawa, Poland). The Jacobys sold clothing, home furnishings, boots, shoes, hats, et al., both wholesale and retail.]

This trade card advertises the Philadelphia Boot and Shoe Store, owned by M. Jacoby, located in Los Angeles, California. The front of the card depicts a heartwarming scene of a daughter and granddaughter helping their grandfather to the dinner table. The text includes the store's address: Corner Main & Market, 101, 103 & 105 N. Main, 1, 3, 5 Market Street. The back of the card contains a full advertisement, mentioning the store's location in the Temple Block and formerly being the W.F. & Co. Express Office. It also includes a full advertisement on the back.