Advertising Cards

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing two girls, one wiping face, the other about to hit her with a spade. One of four cards with these girls. Front of card says: "Copyrighted by A. B. Seeley." Back of card has advertising copy, lists six locations in Cincinnati, and says: "135 Stores in the U.S." No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Doggett Dry Goods Co.
Description: Advertising card for Doggett Dry Goods Co. showing multiple views of San Francisco including: The Lotta Fountain; Stanford and Hopkins Residences; United States Branch Mint; Goden Gate Park; Hall of Records; Union Square; Palace Hotel; and the Stock Exchange. Front of card says: ?ǣDoggett Dry Goods Co. Are Headquarters for Black and Colored Dress Goods and Silks. Do You Trade There? If not Have You Given Them A Fair Trial??ǥ Lower left corner has number B 788 and says: "Copyright 1890 by H. T. Koerner." Back of card has a description of San Francisco, a list of other cities in the advertising card series (St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Washington, Boston and New York), and long advertising copy for the business naming departments: "Dept. L, Silks. Dept. M, Colored Dress Goods. Dept. N, Black Dress Goods." Address is not given.
Date: 1890
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: L. A. Schoen, Jr.
Description: Advertising card for L. A. Schoen, Jr., showing a girl riding a frog using a flower as a whip. Front of card says: "'Health is Wealth' Use Prickly Ash Bitters." Bottom of card on front and back says: "A. Gast & Co. St. Louis." Back of card has extensive advertising copy about the products and says: "Price, $1.00 per Bottle. Prickly Ash Bitters Co., Proprietors, St. Louis and Kansas City Mo." Address given on back of card:
12th & Locust,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Hugo Eyssell
Description: Advertising card for Hugo Eyssell showing a white dove carrying a red star flying through the blue night sky. Front of card says: "Red Star Cough Cure." Front lower left corner says: "A. Hoen & Co. Balto." On back of the card is reprinted a "Certificate of Dr. James A. Steuart, Commissioner of Health, Baltimore, Maryland." It also has a testimonial and advertising copy signed "The Charles A. Bogeler Company, Sole Proprietors, Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. A." Stamped across back of card it says: "25 Cents a Bottle. Large Size, 50 Cents." Address given on back of card:
12th and Broadway,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1884~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co.
Description: Advertising card for Flint and Walling Manufacturing Co. showing children playing by the seaside. Front lower right corner has number 355 or 356 and initials JHB. Back of card lists products: "Star Wind Mills, Iron, Force and Lifting Pumps, Derricks, Tanks, Pipe, Fittings, Screens, Strainers, Hose, Hydrants, Fountains, Valves, etc./ Marcy's Combined Deep Tubular Well Tools and Supplies." Address given on back of card:
1209 Mulberry St.
Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Geo. W. Brown and Co.
Description: Advertising card for Geo. W. Brown & Co. showing an assortment of unrelated images including a ship inside a horseshoe next to a painting on an easel. The horseshoe has the word "Ghirk" on it. Front lower left corner of card has number 29 and lower right corner says: "Bufford." Back of card has images of four farm machines and says: "Geo. W. Brown & Co., Manufacturers of Oscillating and Rotary Drop Corn Planter, Check Rowers, Steel Beam Cultivators and Cotton and Corn Stalk Cutters. Galesburg, Ill...." Address for branch house given on back of card:
1323 Hickory Street,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: P. P. Mast & Company
Description: Advertising card for P. P. Mast & Company, agents for the National Tube-Works Company, showing one donkey watching another fall through ice on a pond as a man runs to help with a rope. Front of card says: ?ǣWith compliments of the National Tubular-Axle Dept., National Tube-Works Company, 64-70 Federal Street, Boston.?ǥ Front lower right corner has number 778 and lower left corner says "Bufford." Back of card has advertising copy about and image of the "National Self-Oiling Tubular-Axle Wagon" which is "Now on Exhibition in the Wagon Department by P. P. Mast & Company, Kansas City, General Agents for the Rushford Hollow-Axle Farm Wagon..."" No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co.
Description: Advertising card for Flint and Walling Manufacturing Co. showing a girl playing with a dog. Front lower right corner has number 355 or 356 and initials JHB. Back of card has image of windmill and lists products: "Star Wind Mills, Iron, Force and Lifting Pumps, Derricks, Tanks, Pipe, Fittings, Screens, Strainers, Hose, Hydrants, Fountains, Valves, etc./ Marcy's Combined Deep Tubular Well Tools and Supplies." Address given on back of card:
1209 Mulberry St.
Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co.
Description: Advertising card for Flint and Walling Manufacturing Co. showing a rural winter scene with a cow standing in the snow in the moonlight. Front lower left corner has number 751; lower right corner says: "Bufford." Back of card lists products: "Star Wind Mills, Iron Force and Lift Pumps, Pipe, Cylinders, Screens, Drive Well Points...Tube Well Tools, Augers, Drills, &c." Address given on back of card:
Factory: Kendallville, Indiana
Branches: Kansas City, Mo., Ft. Worth, Texas.
Street address not given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing bird and flowers. One of three cards with similar bird design. Front lower right corner has number 545; lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card says: "Best teas, 50 c. Per Lb. and Best roasted coffees, 25 c. & 30 c." Seven addresses given for Cincinnati stores. No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing bird and flowers. One of three cards with similar bird design. Front lower right corner has number 545; lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card says: "Best teas, 50 c. Per Lb. and Best roasted coffees, 25 c. & 30 c." Seven addresses given for Cincinnati stores. No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Conover Brothers Co.
Description: Advertising card for Conover Brothers Co. showing a woman in a fancy blue dress with a corsage and necklace. Front of card says: "Compliments of the Fischer Piano. For Sale By Conover Bros. Sole Agents." Front lower left corner has number 722 and lower right corner says: "Bufford." Back of card has an image of a Fischer Piano and says: "The Fischer [Piano]. 73,000 in use." and has five testimonials. Address given on front of card:
613 Main Street,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Geo. W. Strope & Co.
Description: Advertising card for Geo. W. Strope & Co. with an image of a poppy and other flowers. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Vose & Sons, Manufacturers of Superior Piano-Fortes, Boston, Mass." Front lower right corner has number 638 and lower left says: "Bufford." Back and front of card are stamped with: "See the Favorite Strope Grand Upright Pianos." and the company address:
Office and Warerooms
Strope's New Block,
208 West 9th St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: W. H. Collins
Description: Advertising card for W. H. Collins showing a girl in a winter coat and hat pulling a sled through the snow. Front of card says: "The Genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge." Front lower right corner has number 706 and lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card has a testimonial about the product followed by: "The only genuine Dr. C. McLane's Vermifuge, Is Prepared only by FLEMING BROS., Pittsburgh. For sale by W. H. Collins, City Drug Store." Address given on back of card:
4th & Main Sts.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing bird and flowers. One of three cards with similar bird design. Front lower right corner has number 545; lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card says: "Best teas, 50 c. Per Lb. and Best roasted coffees, 25 c. & 30 c." Seven addresses given for Cincinnati stores. No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Conover Brothers Co.
Description: Advertising card for Conover Brothers Co. showing a boy carrying a basket and a branch with blossoms walking down a dirt road. Front of card says: "Compliments of the Fischer Piano." Front lower right corner has number 204 and center right of image says: "Bufford." Back of card is blank except for a stamp that says: "From Conover Bros." Address given on back of card:
613 Main St.
Kansas City,.."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Conover Brothers Co.
Description: Advertising card for Conover Brothers Co. showing a girl in coat and hat leaning down in the snow to touch a dead bird. Front of card is damaged. Front lower right corner has number 705 and lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card says: "Conover Brothers Co., Manufacturers of Piano Fortes...Indorsed [sic] by the following Eminent Musicians / Rive-King, Lillian Nordica, Clara E. Colby, Ella F. Backus, Anton Strelezki, Robt. Goldbeck, Geo. W Morgan, E. M. Bowman, Frank P. Fisk, G. Morosini, Geo. A. Parker, Geo. W. Steele, Chas. Konkel, Dr. S. N. Penfield, H. M. Bosworth, Earnest Hartmen." It also has two paragraphs about Conover's improvements to pianos: "From the Musical Courier / New York, July 13th, 1887." Address given on back of card: South Western Agency, Conover Bros., Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: F. T. Gray & Co.
Description: Advertising card for F. T. Gray showing a number of images of ostrich feathers, a hat, and an ostrich being ridden by a black man. Front of card says: "F. T. Gray & Co., Established 1883. Hat & Bonnet Bleachers and Feather Dyers. Dyeing Black a Specialty. Of Ostrich Dyer Tips." Front lower left corner says: "Ward Bros. Lith. Co. O." Back of card says: "Ladies' Fine Hats dyed or bleached, and re-shaped in the latest styles. Samples to select from. Feathers dyed to match samples. Price List. Hats pressed and varnished, same shape--35c to 50c. Hats re-shaped without dyeing--50c to 75c. H[ats dyed] and reshaped--75c..."."" Pl[umes d]yed, each--50c to $1.00. Plumes curled, each--25c." Address given on front and back of card:
1213 Walnut St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing three musicians fighting with their conductor. They have a drum, a brass instrument, and a triangle. Fourth in a set of five cards telling a story. Captions in French. Front of card says: "4--Vous Même!" 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.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing woman and man riding a bicycle. The bicycle spokes are the printed addresses of the company's branch houses around the U.S. Card is cut in shape of the bicycle and riders. Back of card has advertising copy and says among other things: "128 Stores in the United States" and "Positively no polishing matter used in roasting our coffees...no ingredients whatever being used to make them glossy. Beware of glossy coffees." Kansas City address given on front of card:
927 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

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