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Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Henry Sleek, Jeweler
Description: Advertising card for Henry Sleek showing a portrait of "Blanche Bradshaw." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 534 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Troy Steam Laundry
Description: Advertising card for Troy Steam Laundry showing two women riding on a cuff or collar as if it were a magic carpet over a pressed shirt with a cherub nearby. One of two cards with similar design. Front of card says: "Troy Steam Laundry, M. J. Fulkerson, Prop. Telephone 392." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1312 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Manning and Mann
Description: Advertising card for Manning and Mann showing woman playing a violin. Front of card says: “A Congenial Companion.” Lower left corner has number 95. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 922 Main Street.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Para Rubber Comp'y
Description: Advertising card for Para Rubber Company showing a banjo with an image of a woman's face on the front. Card is cut in the shape of the banjo, but part of neck has broken off. Bottom of card says: "Copyrighted by T. H. Hamburger 1882." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1032 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. E. Vincent and Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. E. Vincent and 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

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: Roxbury and Kenney
Description: Advertising card for Roxbury and Kenney showing two men and two women in fancy dress bowing to each other. One man holds flowers, both women hold fans. Front of card says: "Our Compliments. Roxbury and Kenney, Fashionable Shoe Dealers." Front lower left corner has number 10. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1010 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Sloss', Millinery, Fancy and Hair Goods
Description: Advertising card for "Sloss', Millinery, Fancy and Hair Goods" showing an artist's palette on which there is an image of a woman with feathered hat, surrounded by flowers. Card is cut in the shape of the palette. Front of card also has image of small old woman which says: "Sloss's Trade Mark." Bottom of card says: "Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig, 145 and 147 Mulberry, N. Y." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 606 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift and Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift and Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: H. H. Shepard's
Description: Advertising card for H. H. Shepard's showing a Japanese woman wearing a green kimono and pink obi holding a pink fan. One of two cards with similar design and image. Front of card says: "Buy Your School Books, Wall Paper and Shades at H. H. Shepard's." Front lower left corner has number 686 and lower right says: "Bufford." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 618 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: H. H. Shepard's
Description: Advertising card for H. H. Shepard's showing a Japanese woman wearing a red kimono and yellow obi holding a blue fan. One of two cards with similar design and image. Front of card says: "Buy Your School Books, Wall Paper and Shades at H. H. Shepard's." Front lower left corner has number 686 and lower right says: "Bufford." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 618 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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: 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: Woodward Stock Co.
Description: Advertising card for Woodward Stock Co. with a photograph of a group of men, women, and two children. Front of card says: "Woodward Stock Co./ Souvenir Fiftieth Performance, Auditorium, Kansas City. November 22, 1897." Back of card is blank. No address is given.
Date: 1897
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Nicolai and Michaelis
Description: Advertising card for Nicolai and Michaelis showing a donkey in a changing room on the beach and women on the beach looking at it, surprised. One of four cards with similar subject and design. Front of card says: "Nicolai and Michaelis, Fine Hats, Caps and Gloves..."."" Children's Hats and Caps a Specialty." Front lower right corner says: "Copyright 1882 J. N. Bufford's Sons." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 614 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 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: J. C. Altman & Bro.
Description: Advertising card for J. C. Altman & Bro. showing two women trying on boots in a shoe store with a clerk kneeling to help one. Caption says: "Not English You Know." One of two cards with similar design and theme. Front of card says: "J. C. Altman & Bro. Fine Shoes, First-class Goods at one Bottom Price. Repairing neatly done." Front lower left corner has number 27. Back of card says: "Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Slippers. A Complete Line of First-Class Goods. Call and see our stock. All Kinds of Foot Wear Made to Order at Short Notice. Repairing promptly attended to." Bottom left corner says: "Pershing & Lyman Pub. Co., Chicago." Address given on front and back of card:
707 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Owen, Pixley & Co., Clothiers
Description: Advertising card for Owen, Pixley & Co. with an image of a woman wearing a hat surrounded by a floral border. Back of card says: "You are cordially invited to be present at the Reception and Inauguration of Owen, Pixley & Co., Clothing Emporium, No. 932 Main Street, Thursday Afternoon and Evening, Nov. 13, 1884." and includes advertising copy that mentions "Children's Suitings." Address given on back of card:
932 Main Street,
Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Advertising Card

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