Advertising Cards

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. with portrait of woman in fancy dress. Card is "signed" on front "May Anderson." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. A small stand is glued to the back of the card. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St. Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Frank Scott, Notions and Fancy Goods
Description: Advertising card for Frank Scott showing a woman in a dress with peacock feather hem, yellow wings, a gauzy shawl, and a butterfly antennae headband standing with thirteen birds of exotic species including a cockatoo, a crane, two kookaburras, a puffin, two owls, a pelican, a duck, and others. Front of card says: "Frank Scott, Notions and Fancy Goods...Lace Material, Berlin Zephyr, Canvas, Germantown Yarn, Knitting Silk, Crewels, Art Embroidery, Arrasene, etc., Decorative Needle Work, Turkish Rug Patterns, Patterns, Stamping, Honiton Braid." Front lower right side of image says: "Copyright 1881 by Geo. _____" (last part is obscured by image). Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 913 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Roxbury and Kenney
Description: Advertising card for Roxbury and Kenney showing two men and two women in fancy dress bowing to each other. One man holds flowers, both women hold fans. Front of card says: "Our Compliments. Roxbury and Kenney, Fashionable Shoe Dealers." Front lower left corner has number 10. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1010 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 21 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards depicting people and cut to the shape of the image. The large central card shows a woman in a straw hat with a dog. Her purse says "Buckeye" and the dog's collar says "Aultman Miller." The other six cards are smaller. Four show women, one holding a mandolin. Two show men, one a blacksmith with hammer and anvil, one an architect(." with protractor and blueprints.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 62 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing eighteen advertising cards of people, all cut to shape. Cards vary in size from 3 x 3 cm. to 8 x 14 cm. and show a woman with parasol and dog, a girl with flowers, a woman ice skating, a man watching a cat play the cello, a man with a whistle or flute, girls having a tea party, a woman singing, and two men with large beards. Six of the cards appear to be from the same set, showing children in traditional dress of some sort.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 66 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards depicting people arranged around a central card with paper lace. The eight cards each have a color border and artwork showing the following:1. A woman in ancient dress dancing.2. An elderly couple sitting for a drink of wine.3. A woman with romantic floral border.4. A man riding a horse holding a guitar.5. A girl holding a cat.6. A woman leaning against a wall.7. A woman sitting on a crescent moon in the sky. (Card is pasted upside down.)8. Children begging for food from a woman selling breads on the street.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 63 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing 22 advertising cards of people and some animals, all cut to shape. Cards vary in size from 2.5 x 2.5 cm. to 11 x 12 cm. and show a cat, an elephant, a horse, Santa Claus, children as angels, children with flowers, women in fancy lace collars, and a woman with a parasol.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 28 with Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards depicting women and girls arranged in three rows. The central image is of a girl in a feathered hat holding flowers. It is cut to shape. The corner cards each show a portrait of a woman from the waist, two with hands on hips, one seated. Four other cards are cut to shape and show shoulder portraits of women, three in fancy hats, one leaning on her hand.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 50 with People and Animals
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. A girl in boots and trousers.2. Three children with a small carriage harnessed to a large dog.3. A man on skis with a pack on his back.4. A saleswoman holding a tray of flowers around her neck.5. A woman dressed as a soldier with breastplate, sword, boots, hat, and skirt. Card says: "Army."6. A girl holding a heart made of flowers.7. Two children putting a doll on the back of a dog.8. A circus woman doing tricks while riding a horse in a ring.9. A brown dog's face.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 41 with Boys Playing and Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing 31 advertising cards. Six of the cards are 4 x 7 cm. and show boys playing a game or prank or getting in trouble. Activities include wading, eating an apple, and holding a baseball bat. Twenty-four of the cards have portraits of women on them. Sixteen of these are 4 cm. circles. The others are objects with a portrait on them including a horseshoe, bucket, slate, painting case, dustpan, palette, and two lights. In the middle of all these portraits of women is a large card cut in the shape of a black devil with red tongue and horns, standing in fire. One card is missing from the arrangement.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Troy Steam Laundry
Description: Advertising card for Troy Steam Laundry showing two women riding on a cuff or collar as if it were a magic carpet over a pressed shirt with a cherub nearby. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Troy Steam Laundry, M. J. Fulkerson, Prop. Telephone 392." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1312 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 33 with Dog and Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Two cards from a series: In the first, a man stands on two stones in a river offering to help a woman on the bank into a boat. In the second, the same woman and man fall into the water. Both cards say: "Wade and Cumming Clothing, Cor 8th Av. and 23d St., Grand Opera House." Lower right corner says: "Chas. Shields Sons, 20 and 22 Gold St. N.Y."2. Two roosters fighting while a hen watches. Caption says: "All on account of Mary Jane." Card says: "A. L. Foster and Co., The New England Combination Clothiers.." .45 to 49 Asylum Street, Hartford, Conn."3. A man helping a woman into a boat. Card says: "Cooked Corned Beef."4. A large card cut into the shape of a white dog. Tag around its neck says: "For Bargains go to A. D. Sharpe, No. 30 Main St., Jamestown, N. Y."5. A woman with lacy dress and braided hair.6. A striped cat with fur up and claws out. Card says: "2. Ha! Tis He, The Maltese, Me Rival." Lower left corner says: "Copyright by A. B. Seeley, 1881."7. A young man shaking hands with an older man as two women look on. Card says: "Welcome Soap. Curtis Davis and Co. Boston, Mass."8. An old clown jumping near a bar of soap on the floor labeled "Dobbins Electric Soap." Caption says: "'The lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 9 with Women, Horses, and Country Scenes
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Three cards are cut to the shape of their image. One shows a yellow rose; the other two each show a woman in a blue dress. The other four cards show:1. A man riding a horse jumping over a brook.2. A man driving a horse pulling a rake over a field. Card says: “The Tiger, King of Rakes. Manufactured by J. M. Childs and Co., Utica, N.Y.”3. A steamboat on a river with men working on bank nearby.4. A man and woman looking at a painting. Lower left corner says: "Depose."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 17 with Calling Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing 10 calling cards arranged around a larger advertising card with an image of a woman in blue dress and feathered hat. The calling cards, most decorated with flowers, are for: M. Lixxie Fernald, Willie J. Bailey, Oscar L. Young, Emery Darling, Mrs. Lucius C. Ashley, John F. Cotton, Geo. B. Hammond, Wilson A. Yeats, Jenie M. Fluhart, and John P. Walker.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 80 with Kansas City Businesses
Description: Scrapbook page containing 11 advertising cards including four for businesses in Kansas City, Missouri. The cards show the following:1. A woman's face over a field of cows. Card says: "The Great American Drama. Only a Farmers Daughter." Bottom of card says: "The Courier Lith. Co. Buffalo, N.Y."2. A woman and child sitting looking at a piano labeled: "Packard Grand."3. Three horses drinking at a trough. Card says: "$1,000 reward for the proof of the existence of a better liniment for human and animal flesh than 'Merchant's Gargling Oil' or a better worm remedy than 'Merchant's Worm Tablets' Manufactured by Merchant's Gargling Oil Co., Lockport, N.Y. John Hodge, Secy." Bottom of card says: "The Courier Lith. Co. Buffalo, N.Y."4. A geisha wearing collar and cuffs and using an umbrella and shoes made of cuffs. Card says: "Celluloid Waterproof Collars, Cuffs, and Shirt Bosoms." Bottom of card says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N.Y."5. A woman with a man in a bathrobe holding a bottle. Card says: "Ayer's Sarsaparilla. The Deacon: 'Land sake Liza, the very sight of that bottle makes me feel like another man.' Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a compound concentrated extract-the strongest, best, cheapest blood medicine."6. A woman wearing a fancy collar. Card says: "Yours for Health, Lydia E. Pinkham. Put this in your album." Handwriting on card says: "Something New."7. A smiling cat. Caption says: "Ha! Ha! Ha! I've eaten the canary!"8. A small image of a sewing machine and two scenes with a woman speaking to a man entitled "A Painful Alternative." One says: "I will have a 'New Home' Machine!" and the other says: "A 'New Home' or a divorce, Take your choice, Sir!" Card says: "New Home Sewing Machine Co., 1030 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. F. M. Weaver and Co. Wholesale Dealers."9. Price list for purveyor of alcohol, "Louis Robidoux, Kansas City, Mo." Card includes prices for "W. H. McBrayer, Breckenridge, Golden Wedding Rye, J. W. Dant, Old Crow, Maple Leaf, Anderson County, Howard County Bourbon, Duncan County Bourbon, Jim Crow."10. "Columbus presenting to the King and Queen of Spain Trophies secured in the New World 1492." Native Americans are huddled in the corner and a carriage is displayed. Card says: "Columbus Buggy Co., Columbus, Ohio. Branch House, 806 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo." Bottom of card says: "The Krebs Co., Cin.O."11. A cat playing with yarn on knitting needles. Card says: "New Home Sewing Machine Co., No. 101 West Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 79 with Women and Birds
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards with women and birds. Two cards show girls holding birds. Two cards show women in blue and lace dresses. Two identical cards show two long-tailed parrots and three other birds perched on branches. Two cards each show a bird perched on a branch with an insect flying nearby. One says: "Couch and Woodruff, Fine Shoes, Bridgeport Conn." The other says: "L. H. Johnson, Practical Horse Shoer, 51 Whalley Ave., New Haven, Conn." and right corner says: "Eureka Co., New Haven."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company showing a mandolin with an image of a woman in a pink dress. She carries a fan of peacock feathers and drags a string on which are strung five tiny men. A pug dog walks next to her. The card is cut in the shape of a mandolin and has some damage. Front of card says: "The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, N. Y." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother," some advertising copy, and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. It has a hook that says: "Manufactured only by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York.." Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift and Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift and Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 71 with Calling Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing 14 calling cards arranged artfully around a large (15 x 32 cm.) advertising card showing a full length view of a woman in a blue dress carrying flowers. The calling cards have various images including flowers, a train, a woman with bow and arrow, a cupid, a tropical palace, and a fish bowl. Cards are for: Mrs. R. Thayer; L. I. Rogers, Norwich, Conn.; Amanda D. Arnold; B(?)edette Gilbert; James M. Cheatwood; B. Oppenheimer; Division 122. W. J. Miller, Pana, Illinois; Miss E. B. Long; Dollie B. Walter; Gracie A. Chete; Eugene L. Williams; Lydia A. Cotton; Henry G. Hains.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 67 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards all cut to shape showing mainly people including a man in decorated military uniform, a king, three women, two men in feathered hats, and a woman in a flowered dress. Cards also show a sailing ship and a church with mountains behind.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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