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WADLEIGH’S
474 Washington Street,
BOSTON, MASS.
CONSTANTLY ON HAND,
Untrimmed Chip and Straw Hats and Bonnets,
French, English, and American.
THE CORRECT STYLE
IN
Trimmed Dress Bonnets, Round Hats, Travelling
and Riding Hats.
DAILY RECEIVING THE VERY LATEST NOVELTIES.
FEATHERS, FLOWERS, RIBBONS,
VELVETS, AND SILKS,
In all the Extreme and Exclusive Shades and Tints,
A SPECIALTY.
Misses’ and Children’s Hats, Trimmed and Untrimmed.
Head-Gear,
Antique and Modern.
Illustrated.
COMPILED AND EDITED
BY
R. H. WADLEIGH.
BOSTON:
COLEMAN & MAXWELL, Stationers and Printers,
58 and 60 Federal Street.
1879.
Copyright, 1879.
R. H. WADLEIGH.
My recent publication on Head-Gear, Antique and Modern, will be delivered toall our customers. Should there be any who do not receive a copy, they will do me a favorby making application at the store where they will be supplied. I take great pleasure inpresenting the only work exclusively devoted to this subject ever published, trusting a perusal ofits pages will be at least interesting, if not instructive. I have used every effort to make it acorrect description of styles, beginning with Egypt in the days of the Pharaohs (dating backnearly six thousand years) and ending with modern Paris, giving some twenty pages of beautifullyexecuted illustrations, and thirty pages of descriptive essays and quotations fromancient and modern writers.
We solicit continuance of your patronage this coming season,and feel con