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Title: Bird's Eye View - Kansas City
Description: Pictorial map showing the cities and towns of Kansas City, Missouri; Harlem, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Rosedale, Kansas; Argentine, Kansas; Armourdale, Kansas; Armstrong, Kansas; Riverview, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; and Wyandotte, Kansas. At the time of its publication, the map had an extensive key listing the numbered buildings, most of which has been removed. Steamboats traveling along the Missouri River can be seen. The map displays the steep bluffs and topography of the region. It also indicates Kansas City's expansion southward away from the Missouri River, the development of the stockyards industry in the West Bottoms and interconnectivity with the surrounding cities and towns that followed completion of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Map

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: 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

Title: Peet Bros. Mfg. Co.
Description: Advertising card for Peet Bros. Mfg. Co. showing a man and a woman in colonial dress standing on dunes. 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: Wm. W. Kendall Boot and Shoe Co.
Description: Advertising card for Wm. W. Kendall Boot and Shoe Co. showing a child at the beach carrying a net and looking into a basket for catching seafood. Front of card has a crest that says: "K. B and S Co, Established 1867" around which it says: "Wear Wm. W. Kendall Boot and Shoe Co.'s Rose of the West School Shoe." Front lower left corner has number C-857. Back of card is blank. No address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: City Art Rooms
Description: Advertising card for City Art Rooms showing a cat's face on an artist's palette. Card is cut in the shape of a palette with thumb hole cut out. Front of card says: "Buy Picture, Frames, Etc., At City Art Rooms, Opp. Postoffice." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Opp. Postoffice, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Harnden Seed Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Harnden Seed Co. showing a man with a brown leaf (tobacco?) for a head. Front of card says: "Buy Harnden's Seeds. That's What." Front lower left corner has number C-681. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 43 with Santa and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards, all cut to the shape of their image, showing the following:1. Santa carrying presents (two cards).2. A girl with ringlets and a hat, holding a ball (two identical cards).3. A girl with ringlets and a hat holding a teddybear.4. A woman in lace head cover.5. Flowers, two cards with hands and doves, one with birds, and one with a book.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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