1893 LEAK'S GLOVES PARADE CABINET PHOTO A PLACER COUNTY CA COMPANY RARE AS IS

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THIS RARE CABINET PHOTO GOES BACK TO 1893 ERA  IT IS 8 1/2 BY 5 1/4 INCHES,   FAMOUS PROMOTER , ORIGINALLY FROM SAN FRANCISCO CA. A MONDULA LEAK  HE HAD A LINE OF GLOVES,  HAD A SPECIAL PULLMAN CAR AND TOURED THE USA TOUTING HIS GLOVES,  PUT ON PARADES IN LITTLE TOWN AMERICA,  HE WAS IN PLACER COUNTY CALIFORNIS  AND THERE OTHERS  ASKED HIM TO PROMOTE THERE PRODUCTS AROUND AMERICA  WHICH HE DID  FOR A NICE SUM OF MONEY BACK THEN,  KIND OF A P.T. BARNUM PERSON,  VERY SUCCESSLY ,  THE PULLMAN CAR WAS VERY SPECIAL ALSO.  GOOGLE SEARCH  EVEN SHOWS THE DIAGRAM OF THE CAR.  THE PICTURE SHOWS  ONE OF HIS PARADES,. SOMEWHERE IN THE EASTERN USA..ON THE FENCE TO THE LEFT  DRINK  CORONADO?  BEER  SODA?  UNKNOWN SCARCE ONE.  CONDITION IS OK  BUT HAS A LITTLE FOXING ON THE WHITE PART AND A PART CIRCLE  AL FAINT..HISTORICAL ,SHIPPING IS USPS FIRST CLASS  INSURED.
Leak secured the support of Placer County, California, which paid him 0 a month to displays its photos, its agricultural produce, and its 0 chunk of gold ore, in order to lure settlers and investors from the eastern states. Just a few of the other sponsors whose merits Leak's men sang (and whose free samples they distributed) were
Sperry & Co.'s Germea (a breakfast cereal), Royal Dutch Cocoa, Folger's Baking Powder, Schilling's California wines,
Cudahy Bros.'
Rex Beef Extract, Thompson's Wild Cherry Phosphate, Wadam's Axle Grease, and "China soap from the factory of B. J. Johnson," who seven years later would introduce a product he called Palmolive. And we have evidence right here in Medford that--in the summer of 1891 at least--he also advertised the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company