Advertising Cards

Title: J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co.
Description: Folded advertising card for J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. that unfolds to show an illustrated version of "Jack and Jill." When folded, the card looks like a crocodile leather wallet which says: "As there is interest for the reader of the jingles of childhood within, there is also profit for those who take advantage of our suggestions there." As you open the card, it says: "Our store is a great exposition of all that's newest and best in pianos, musical instruments and musical merchandise..."" When fully open, the inside of the card has the Jack and Jill rhyme accompanied by images of a girl and boy walking up a hill, then falling down the hill, then being patched up by a woman. At the bottom it says: "Copyrighted 1898 by Niagara Lith. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Address is given on outside of card:
921-923 Main Street.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1898
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. E. Vincent & Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. E. Vincent & Co. showing a woman wearing a hat and shawl standing among trees. Below this image is one of daisies and butterflies. Front of card says: "Vincent's Millinery Opening, April 19 and 20, 1883." Card folds and inside says: "Our 4th Annual Opening of Fine French Millinery and Hair Goods, and Exhibition of Pattern Bonnets and Round Hats, also all the Latest Novelties, Thursday and Friday, April 19th and 20th, 1883." Back of card has image of a birds flying and tiny text: "Harrington, Typ." Address given inside card:
701 Main St., cor. Seventh,
Kansas City.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: 10018991

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 82 with Photographic Postcards
Description: Scrapbook page containing five photographs or photographic postcards. Four images are of graves in Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone and one is of horses and buggies outside of the Tombstone Epitaph building. The grave markers say:1. "Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Tex Howard, Bill DeLaney, Dan Kelly, Legally Hanged Mar. 8 1884."2. "Billy Clanton, Tom McLowery, Frank McFlowery, Murdered on the streets of Tombstone 1881." 3. "John Heath, Taken from County Jail and Lynched by Bisbee Mob in Tombstone, Feb. 22, 1884."4. "George Johnson, Hanged by mistake."
Object Type: Postcard

Title: J. W. Tullis
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Tullis with image of flowers on a turquoise background. One of four cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Compliments of J. W. Tullis, Dealer in Ladies' and Gents' Fine Shoes." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 612 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Corle Cracker and Confectionery Co.
Description: Advertising card for Corle Cracker and Confectionery Co. showing two children crying in the street. One of three cards with similar design and theme. Lower right front corner has number 14. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. J. Foster
Description: Advertising card for J. J. Foster with an image of red and white flowers. Front of card says: "J. J. Foster, Harness, Saddles, Dog Collars. Pure Witch Hazel 25c Quart. Telephone 2028." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 511 Main St.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. J. Foster
Description: Advertising card for J. J. Foster showing a jocky standing on a large horseshoe looking at a picture of a horse. Front of card says: "No more lame horses! Marshall's Hoof Cure for sale by J. J. Foster." Front lower left corner has number C-935. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 511 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. J. Foster
Description: Advertising card for J. J. Foster showing a brown horse pulling a sleigh over ice. Caption says: "Norwegian.." Front of card says: "J. J. Foster, Harness and Saddlery, and Jobber of Turf Goods Specialties. Telephone 2028." Front lower left corner has number C-648. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 511 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Roxbury and Kenney
Description: Advertising card for Roxbury and Kenney showing a man leaning against a tree with one arm around a woman and the other over his head holding onto a tree branch. The woman holds her arm up to her face. Front of card says: "Our Compliments. Roxbury and Kenney, Fashionable Shoe Dealers." Front lower right corner has number 18. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1010 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. M. Smith, Boots and Shoes
Description: Advertising card for J. M. Smith, Boots and Shoes showing a parrot on a perch holding a card in its beak. The card says: "J. M. Smith, Boots and Shoes at the Blue Front." Front lower right corner has number 268 and lower left corner says: "American Lithograph Company N. Y.."(almost entirely rubbed off). Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card:At the Blue Front No. 1004 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. H. North Furniture and Carpet Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The J. H. North Furniture and Carpet Co. showing a rural scene of a tree on the edge of a hay field with a building in background. Image looks like it is on a piece of torn paper. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Compliments of The J. H. North Furniture and Carpet Co." Front lower left corner has number C-730. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1216 to 1224 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
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: Sloss', Millinery, Fancy and Hair Goods
Description: Advertising card for "Sloss', Millinery, Fancy and Hair Goods" showing an artist's palette on which there is an image of a woman with feathered hat, surrounded by flowers. Card is cut in the shape of the palette. Front of card also has image of small old woman which says: "Sloss's Trade Mark." Bottom of card says: "Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig, 145 and 147 Mulberry, N. Y." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 606 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Manning and Mann, Confectioners
Description: Advertising card for Manning and Mann showing a rural scene with pond and cottage with a border of flowers. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 922 Main Street. Kansas City.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. W. Tullis
Description: Advertising card for J. W. Tullis with image of flowers on a turquoise background. One of four cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Compliments of J. W. Tullis, Dealer in Ladies' and Gents' Fine Shoes." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 612 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Spalding's Commercial College
Description: Advertising card for Spalding's Commercial College showing an envelope ripped open to a letter and picture of a girl. One of two cards with similar design. Back of card says: "Twenty-sixth annual Day School, in session all the year." and "Twenty-sixth annual Night School, in session Oct. 1 to April 1." Also: "Established Oct. 25, 1865. Incorporated July 11, 1867. All English and Commercial Branches, Short-Hand, Type-Writing, Modern Languages, Higher Mathematics, etc., practically taught at lowest rates. Unrivalled Course of Instruction. Large Faculty of seventeen experienced Teachers and Lecturers. Twenty New and Elegant College Rooms. Unsurpassed advantages. No Vacations. Catalogues free...Elevator Entrance N. Y. Life Building, Cor. Ninth and Wall Streets. J. F. Spalding, A. M., President." Address given on back and front of card:
Kansas City, Mo.
East Wing N. Y. Life Bldg., Nos. 814, 816, 818 Delaware St.
(Near "Junction" Ninth, Delaware and Main Sts.)
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Golden Eagle
Description: Advertising card for Golden Eagle showing a child playing "dress up" in a white dress and hat with brown gloves holding a bouquet of flowers. Back of card says: "Read! This may be of some interest to you. We must raise $100,000 cash. Our reasons are: one of our partners retires from the firm January 1st. We want to pay him his interest in cash; to do so, we shall sell you the greatest bargains in/ Men's Suits or Overcoats, Boys' or Children's Suits or Overcoats, Furnishing Goods or Hats,/ at a saving from 20 per cent. to 50 per cent. Actual values not considered during this great Dissolution sale." Also "Axman & Goldenberg, Resident Partners." Address given on back of card:
.."."."."."."."."."."" 512 and 514 Main,
Near Fifth Street Cable
.."."."."."."."."."."" Kansas City.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Peet Bros. Mfg. Co.
Description: Advertising card for Peet Bros. Mfg. Co. showing a barefoot woman with a basket and jug walking down a path in front of a thatched-roof house followed by a cow and some geese. One of a set of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Compliments of Peet Bros. Mfg. Co. Kansas City, U. S. A./ La Rosa Bouquet./ Scented Glycerine./ The Leading Manufacturers of Fancy Toilet and Laundry Soaps. Insist Upon Having Our Brands." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, U. S. A. No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Corle Cracker and Confectionery Co.
Description: Advertising card for Corle Cracker and Confectionery Co. showing a baby in a baseball cap sliding for a base, a baseball on the ground nearby. Caption says: "I'se dot dere fir't." Top of card says: "For health eat Corle's Scotch Oats." Back of card is blank. No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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