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J. W. Jenkins & Son
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Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl dragging a large basket of apples down a hill. Front of card says: "Story & Clark Organ Co. Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago. For Sale By J. W. Jenkins & Son. Popular Prices! Decker Bros., Vose & Sons, Mathushek Pianos." Back of card has a small image of a factory and says: "Fall of 1890, Chicago, Ill. You are hereby respectfully invited to call at the Model Organ Factory of the World, corner Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, at your early convenience and inspect same throughout, upon presentation of this card. We are to-day the largest exclusive reed organ manufacturers in the World..." Yours respectfully, Story & Clark Organ Co. / R. S. V. P." Address given on front of card:
615 Main St.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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J. W. Jenkins & Son
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Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl picking flowers. Front of card says: "Story & Clark Organ Co. Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago. For Sale By J. W. Jenkins & Son. Popular Prices! Decker Bros., Vose & Sons, Mathushek Pianos." Back of card has a small image of a factory and says: "Fall of 1890, Chicago, Ill. You are hereby respectfully invited to call at the Model Organ Factory of the World, corner Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, at your early convenience and inspect same throughout, upon presentation of this card. We are to-day the largest exclusive reed organ manufacturers in the World..." Yours respectfully, Story & Clark Organ Co. / R. S. V. P." Address given on front of card:
615 Main St.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a girl and her doll covered in ink after knocking over the ink on a lap desk. Caption says: "The Accident." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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J. W. Jenkins & Son
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Advertising card for J. W. Jenkins & Sons showing a girl holding an umbrella standing under the eves of a building as it stops raining and the sun comes out. Front of card says: "Story & Clark Organ Co. Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago. For Sale By J. W. Jenkins & Son. Popular Prices! Decker Bros., Vose & Sons, Mathushek Pianos." Back of card has a small image of a factory and says: "Fall of 1890, Chicago, Ill. You are hereby respectfully invited to call at the Model Organ Factory of the World, corner Canal and 16th Streets, Chicago, at your early convenience and inspect same throughout, upon presentation of this card. We are to-day the largest exclusive reed organ manufacturers in the World..."" Yours respectfully, Story & Clark Organ Co. / R. S. V. P." Address given on front of card:
615 Main St.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a child sitting in a rocking chair with a doll near a lap desk. Caption says: "Rock A Bye Baby." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl standing on armchair holding a feathered hat. Caption says: "Young America." Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1882
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing three girls sitting underneath a broken umbrella each holding a kitten. Caption says: "Three little kittens." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: "927 Main St...Kansas City, Mo."
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Date
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1884
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a child writing on a lap desk, holding a doll. Caption says: "To Papa." One of a set of three cards telling a story with this girl. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Spalding's Commercial College
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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.)
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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K. C. Milling Co., The
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Advertising card for The Kansas City Milling Co. showing two girls wrapped together in a shawl with a small image of a bridge and flowers above. Card is embossed. Back of card says: "The Flour of the Family. Imperial. A Kansas City Product, made by The K. C. Milling Co..."" No address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Kansas City Sewing Machine Co.
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Advertising card for the Kansas City Sewing Machine Co. showing a young girl holding up some cherries. Front lower right corner of card says: "Niagara Lith. Co. Buffalo, N.Y." Back of card has image of sewing machine table and says: "The Standard Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine. Two Machines in One. Lock Stitch and Chain Stitch. The Best and Fastest Sewing Machine in the World. For Sale By.."" followed by an incomplete stamp with address: "Kansas City Sewing Machine Co., Wholesale Sewing Machine Supplies,
12th and Walnut
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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G. W. Strope
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Advertising card for G. W. Strope, agents for the A. B. Chase Co. showing two girls sitting in a chair looking at a brochure about pianos. Front of card says: "'This is the piano Papa bought for us' on the other side you can see why." Front lower right corner says: "Wilmanns Bros. Lith. Milwaukee." Back of card says: "This is why we bought the A. B. Chase Piano..."" and follows with four reasons. It also says: "The A. B. Chase Co., Norwalk, Ohio." and is stamped with: "G. W. Strope Western Agts.
206 & 208 West 9th,
Kansas City, Mo."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl listening to seashell. One of two cards of girls listening to shells. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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David B. Kirk & Co.
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Advertising card for David B. Kirk & Co. showing a girl whispering in another girl's ear. Front of card says: ?ǣKirk's Komplete Kernel.?ǥ Back of card says: "Kirk's Komplete Kernel Whole Wheat Flour. Physicians all recommend it for a Brain and Nerve Food. We are a rushing, pushing, crowding people, whose nerves and brains are overtaxed daily in the rush for first place. This condition requires more nutritious food. Something that assimilates quickly and easily. Bread made from whole wheat will be found better than any other article on the market as a 'food.' Any grocer can furnish it. Trade supplied by David B. Kirk & Co., Flour Exporters and Jobbers, Kansas City, Mo." No street address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a girl in pink clothing at the beach. Front lower left corner has number 1341. Back of card has advertising copy about A & P Condensed Milk including: "Physicians and consumers please take notice that our A & P Condensed Milk in made in Porcelain Vaccuum Pans. We are the only manufacturers in the world that use Porcelain Pans. All others use Copper Pans, with one exception. It is unnecessary for us to make a comparison between Porcelain and Copper Pans. We leave that matter with the public." It says: "200 stores in the U.S." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Moline Plow Co.
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Advertising card for Moline Plow Co., agents for Stover Manfg. Co., showing a girl standing on a fence picking roses and holding a rake. Front of card says: ?ǣStover Manfg. Co., Freeport, Ill. Make the largest and best line of machinery for grinding and cutting feed, shelling corn, cutting wood, pumping water, &c., on earth..."" Front lower left corner has number B422. Back of card has image of foundry buildings and says: "33 1/3 percent. Saved by grinding your feed with an Ideal Feed Mill over feeding it whole..."" Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Comp., The
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing basket holding flowers and three girls. Card is cut in shape of the basket. Back of card lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
923 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Spalding's Commercial College
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Advertising card for Spalding's Commercial College showing an assortment of unrelated images: a girl, some flowers, and a lighthouse. Card is embossed. Front of card says: "Telephone 1174." Back of card says: "Twenty-eighth year...Day school all the year...Night School October 2 to April 7." It also describes the college: "Established Oct. 25, 1865. Incorporated July 11, 1867. Book-Keeping and other Commercial Studies, Shorthand, Typewriting, English Branches, Higher Mathematics, Modern Languages, Etc., at lowest rates. No Vacations. Catalogues free. Be sure to visit or address this College before going elsewhere. Elevator Entrance N. Y. Life Building, Cor. Ninth and Wall Streets. Telephone 1174. Wm. H. Seeger, Esq. (Prest. Citizens Nat. Bank), Secretary. J. F. Spalding, A. M., President.." Address given on back of card:
East Wing N. Y. Life Bldg., Nos. 814, 816, 818 Delaware St.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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C. I. Hood & Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for C. I. Hood & Co. showing a girl having a tea party with two puppies or dogs. Card is shaped like a plate and has a number of cracks around the edge. Front of card says: "Hoods Tooth Powder, Whitens the teeth, sweetens the breath. 25 Cts. a bottle." Back of card says: "C. I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass., U. S. A." and has extensive advertising copy about Hood's Tooth Powder and Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has a hook that says: "Manufactured only by [Dona]ldson Brothers, [Fiv]e Points, [New Y]ork." No Kansas City address is given.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing girl listening to seashell. One of two cards with girls listening to shells. Back of card lists five addresses for Cincinnati stores. No Kansas City address is given.."
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Date
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1885~
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Advertising Card
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