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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a bandaged owl holding a $50 bill sitting on a branch cuddling with an owl wearing women's bedclothes. One of a set of four cards telling a story (original set had six cards). Caption says: "6. Owl man and Owl woman, Owl maid and Owl bach, They are happy once more Tho' they've had many a scratch." Front of card says: "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Co's Teas & Coffees are the best." 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.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a bandaged owl in bed next to an owl wearing women's bedclothes. One of a set of four cards telling a story (original set had six cards). Caption says: "5. It will take a pair of Gold Bracelets and a Seal Skin Sacque to repair the havoc of this unhappy night." Front of card says: "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Co's Teas & Coffees are the best." 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.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing an owl wearing women's bedclothes beating another owl with a broom. One of a set of four cards telling a story (original set had six cards). Caption says: "4. Take a back seat, will I? I'll let you know whom I'm glaring at." Front of card says: "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Co's Teas & Coffees are the best." 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.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing an owl wearing women's bedclothes looking at a grandfather clock. One of a set of four cards telling a story (original set had six cards). Caption says: "2. Well, I should screech; that Owl man is not home yet." Front of card says: "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Co's Teas & Coffees are the best." 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.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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A. W. Alger
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Description
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Advertising card for A. W. Alger with two images of women in a kitchen called "The Old Way" and the "The New Way." The old way shows a stove falling apart, a broken dish, a spilling pot, a broken window, a cat and dog fleeing, and a distraught woman. It says: "She preferred the old way." The new way shows a woman in more fashionable dress playing with her children next to a stove with an orderly, functional array of pots and kettles. It says: "She prefers the 'Hull.'" Lower left corner of image is "signed."""Santa Sc." Back of card says: "The celebrated Hull Vapor Cook Stove! Over 75,000 in use. Hundreds in use in and about Kansas City and giving universal satisfaction..."."" For Sale By A. W. Alger.." Address given on back of card:
1217 Grand Ave.,
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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Title
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Sorosis Shoe Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for the Sorosis Shoe Co. showing an assortment of images illustrating "Colonial Days in New England" including a woman doing needlework identified as "Tambour Work," couples riding through the snow on horses "to a wedding," men sitting by a fireplace smoking pipes together, and a ship identified as "The Mayflower" sailing on choppy seas. Front lower right corner of card says: "Copyright, 1905, by A. E. Little & Co., makers of Sorosis Shoes, Lynn, Mass. U. S. A." Back of card has image of a foot in a woman's shoe and says: "The Sorosis Shoe manufacturers are the only shoemakers in the world that make all their lasts and patters: fact. Sorosis Shoes for Women, for Men, for Boys, for Girls, and for Infants have style and durability; and they are to be depended upon to keep the feet that wear them very shapely and also entirely comfortable. Sorosis Trade Mark.." Address stamped on back of card:
1012 Grand Ave.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
