Color advertising print depicting the building occupied by Joseph Laing & Co. (lithographers) and Edward Evans (clothiers). The image is surrounded by an elaborate decorative border contining a view of the original plan for the Washington Monument at the bottom, a steamship at the top, and four female allegorical figures on the sides.
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