Dressing for the ball: a romance of Cooley's globe corset
Broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Metamorphic card printed on both sides with colored illustration of two women; when folded they wear unattractive corsets, when unfolded they wear fashionable ones. On verso advertisement printed in red for J. Richman, 169 Westminster St., Providence, R.I. Providence directories show Jacob Richman sold fancy goods at this address between 1880 and 1883. First line: "These stays are horrid!" said Miss Smith.
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