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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 80 with Kansas City Businesses
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 12 with Unrelated Cards
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards arranged in two columns showing the following:1. Three women at a table looking on as a man reads to them.2. A man on a horse roping a bull. Card says: "'Testing' Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton."3. A man riding an unidentified farm machine being pulled across a grassy field by a horse.4. A couple lying under an umbrella at the beach, a sailing ship in the distance. Card says: "J. and P. Coats' Thread."5. Two children dancing outside. Card says: "Founded 1829. E. Jaccard Jewelry Company, Fifth and Olive Sts, St. Louis, Mo."6. White daisies and a banner that says: "A Merry Christmas."7. Holly surrounding a winter scene with cottage. Card says: "A Happy Christmas."8. A hunting dog in pointing posture. Card says: "F. A. Wells and Co., The Clothiers. 167 Main St..."" (Last words are worn off.)9. A rooster standing by a box with a chicken and hatching chicks. Card says: "Call for Corle's Crackers and Candies."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 37 with Unrelated Cards
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards. Four cards are very small cutouts of people, two playing music, one Asian, one with a monkey. The other five cards show the following:1. A large brown clapboard building.2. Two horses running away with a plow, the farmer in the air behind hanging on.3. People looking at a picture of a man and woman leaving a train in the snow and walking down the platform towards a Fred Harvey sign.4. A winter scene with a barn in the snow.5. Two boys on the street pointing at a women whose skirt has ripped. Card says: "New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass. My Dear, you should buy a Light-Running 'New Home' Sewing Machine. Its seams never rip."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
