Proof, Printing

Front Office, 2nd Floor for Mail Orders, Etc.

Proof of a lithograph from the Calvert Lithographing Company captioned in the upper right corner, "Mail Order Dept. 2nd Floor or Sales Dept.," showing a woman at D.M. Ferry and Company using a scale with a large scoop-shaped tray, presumably to weight seeds, in the foreground, while other women work amid a desk covered with bags, and banks of drawers in the background. Two scale lines, marked AA and BB are printed below the image. "Engraving. Reduce A.A. to B.B. One Photo Engraving. J.B.T." is handwritten in the lower right corner. "Please drawing clean," is handwritten in the lower left corner. "J.B. Thomas due Mar. 1893," is handwritten on the verso.