Advertising Cards

Title: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & 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: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing surreal image of a bird sitting in a broken egg in a nest. Surrounding the egg looking at the bird are five adults and a child in fancy dress, the same size as the bird. One of four cards with similar theme. 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing child kneeling in prayer. Caption says: "Our Father who art in Heaven." 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: 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.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing woman standing by tea service holding a cup of tea. Small inset pictures shows old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Tiny caption under inset picture says: "'The Gt. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co's celebrated teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Card is cut in shape of clam shell. Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and a printed lace border. It 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.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Advertising Card

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: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a white dove sitting in front of a large cross covered with pink roses. Front of card says: "Our Easter Offering." Front lower right corner says: "Copyrighted 1886 by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company New York." Back of card has extensive advertising copy about "pure teas, coffees and baking powder," and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
923 Main St.
Date: 1886
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: Poultry Supply House
Description: Advertising card for the Poultry Supply House showing a poorly looking rooster standing on one leg with head bandaged. Caption says: "Don't Worry! Conkey Will Cure Me." Bottom of card says: "Conkey's Poultry Remedies. The G. E. Conkey Company, Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A." Front lower right corner says: "Copyright 1906." Back of card says: "Each article must satisfy YOU or you receive your money back. For sale by Poultry Supply House." A long list of products and their prices is given including: Roup Cure; Remedies for Bronchitis, Cholera, Gape, Chicken Pox, Limber Neck, Scaly Leg; Healing Salve; Poultry Laxative and Tonic; Flea Salve; Sulphur Candles; Head Lice Ointment; Lice Powder and Liquid; Laying Tonic; Nox-i-cide; Fly Knocker; and Remedies for Mange and Distemper in dogs. Address given on back of card:
1304 1/2 Main St.,
Kansas City Mo
Date: 1906
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a surreal image of a bird sitting in a broken egg in a nest. Surrounding the egg looking at the bird are five dancing ladies and two clowns, the same size as the bird. One of four cards with similar theme. 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Caption says: "'The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Card is cut in oval shape and has some damage where parts of image have been scraped. Back of card says: "The picture of Grand Mother on the other side, represents one of the many hundred thousand, whose lives have been prolonged to a good old age, by using only The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Cos. pure teas and coffees." It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. and headquarters at 35 and 37 Vesey St., New York. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing sailor smoking a cigar. Caption says: "Jack Ashore." 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing spring scene with flowering trees, bees, and fence. One of a set of four cards (each one a season). 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a boy and donkey standing next to a seated old woman who is touching the donkey's head. Caption says: "'Is that you Tommy? for I can't see;' Yes Granny: 'Bless the child why don't yer mother cut yer hair?'" Card is cut in shape of people pictured. Back of card has small image of horse team pulling a wagon that says: "Sultana" and "Suez Canal." It 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.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Hammerslough & Co.
Description: Advertising card for "Hammerslough & Co., One Price Clothiers" showing a funny picture of a dog biting a pig's ear and a man, woman, and child, one behind the other, tugging on the dog's tail. Front of card says: "No. 2. 'All Together!'" Bottom of card says: "Copyrighted 1882" and "Cartoon Publishing Co. Chicago." Back of card says: "We smile again/ And so will you when you see the new series of Cartoons (a continuation of the Garden Series which attracted so much attention) just placed on exhibition at our store. They create almost as much comment as the exceedingly low prices named on our new Fall Stock.." Address given on back of card:
Corner 5th and Main Streets,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

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: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a baby in a nest surrounded by five women or girls in fancy dress looking down on it. One of four cards with similar theme. 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing summer scene with flowers, butterfly, and bird. One of a set of four cards (each one a season). 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: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Description: 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."
Date: 1884
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

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