Fred Harvey Style Bracelet with Silver Bars and Silver Button [SOLD]

This Fred Harvey Style Bracelet with Silver Bars and Silver Button has a hand-formed silver button surrounded by smaller silver balls to create a characteristic Fred Harvey style bracelet. Arrow and cloud motifs adorn the sides and the split shank gives the bracelet a delicate, airy feel.

Fred Harvey had opened his first restaurant along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Florence, Kansas in 1878.  The business boomed rapidly after that, growing to include more than 80 facilities in the Southwest from Chicago to Los Angeles. The company employed pretty, young women to serve customers and collaborated with architect Mary Colter to create buildings that reflected the culture of the Southwest. Attached to the restaurants were gift shops who purpose was to provide suitable “Indian” souvenirs to the travelers.  That, too, was very successful.

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Santa Fe

Recommended Reading:  DREAM TRACKS—The Railroad and the American Indian 1890-1930 by T. C. McLuhan