Advertising Cards

Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Title
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description
Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. cut in the shape of a banjo. There is a picture on the banjo of a woman playing a banjo. Back of card has small image of woman in Oriental dress playing a banjo and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Card is damaged: part of banjo broken off. Small tag affixed to back of card says: "Manufactured only by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York." Kansas City address given on back: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Title
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description
Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing a basket of flowers and colored eggs. Card is cut in shape of basket and has some damage: handle of basket is broken and has been taped. Back of card has small image of horse team pulling a wagon that says: "Suez Canal." It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. At bottom of back of card it says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York." Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card
Long Bros.
Title
Long Bros.
Description
Advertising card for Long Bros., agents for Borden Selleck & Co., showing three children trying to weigh a pig on a scale. Front of card says: ?ǣHowe Scale.?ǥ Front lower right corner says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N. Y." Back of card says: "Borden Selleck & Co./ Managers Western Warehouses.
Chicago, 97 & 101 Lake St.
Cleveland, 157 Water St.
St. Louis, 612 N. Thrid St.
Agents, Long Bros., Kansas City, Mo.." No street address is given.
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Title
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description
Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a basket of flowers and colored eggs. Card is cut in shape of basket and has some damage: handle of basket is broken and has been taped. Back of card has small image of horse team pulling a wagon that says: "Suez Canal." It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. At bottom of back of card it says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York." Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card
Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 56 with Children
Title
Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 56 with Children
Description
Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. An African American man holding a duck and basket. Card says: "Chas. E. Marsh, Printer and Stationer, Greenville, N. H."2. Two cards for:.""Curtis Davis and Co. Boston, Mass. Welcome Soap." showing a woman holding a baby while a man admires it and a sailor running to embrace a woman. Lower right corner of both cards says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York."3. A child holding up a bottle labeled, "Burdock Blood Bitters."4. A child playing a mandolin.5. Flowers and a geometric border. Card says: "Reward of Merit to Hattie Light by Mollie Hayes, Teacher.."(Names are handwritten.)6. A girl holding flowers.7. A coachman with a whip and very large head.8. Two children sitting in a chair with a doll and a brochure with a man leaning over the back watching them. Card says: "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Cures Colds, Coughs, and all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Prepared by J. C. Ayers and Co. Lowell, Mass, U. S. A."
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card
Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 80 with Kansas City Businesses
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
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
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
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Title
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description
Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. cut in the shape of a banjo. There is a picture on the banjo of a woman playing a banjo. Back of card has small image of woman in Oriental dress playing a banjo and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Card is damaged: part of banjo broken off. Small tag affixed to back of card says: "Manufactured only by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York." Kansas City address given on back:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date
1885~
Object Type
Advertising Card