This chromolithograph trade card was produced as an advertisement for Audemairs' glasses by the Spencer Optical Manufacturing Company between 1875 and 1899. This particular card is held by the Baker Library of the Harvard Business School. Between 1874 and 1888, the Spencer Optical factory was located down the street from the St. George's/St. Mark's Cemetery in the hamlet of Kirbyville. After 1888, the factory was located in Newark, New Jersey. The opera glasses shown on the back of the card were imported from Paris. In 1888, factory superintendent C. Elliot Spencer told the Recorder that the Optical Works imported $60,000 worth of French opera glasses that past year.
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