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Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 37 with Unrelated Cards
Description: 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."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 4 with People and Scenes of Country Life
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following: 1. Rural winter scene of a cottage by moonlight. 2. Rural winter scene of a bridge by moonlight. Lower right corner has number 659 and left corner says: "Bufford."3. Winter scene of a church.4. Winter scene of a field of cows in front of a house and barn. Card has glitter on it.5. A woman in pink dress and feathered hat.6. A woman holding a child on her lap with a little girl looking on and a cat at her feet.7. A man with cane and dog walking up to a counter or bar and saying to the clerk: "A lemonade please." Copyright statement and printer in lower right corner is obscured.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 41 with Boys Playing and Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing 31 advertising cards. Six of the cards are 4 x 7 cm. and show boys playing a game or prank or getting in trouble. Activities include wading, eating an apple, and holding a baseball bat. Twenty-four of the cards have portraits of women on them. Sixteen of these are 4 cm. circles. The others are objects with a portrait on them including a horseshoe, bucket, slate, painting case, dustpan, palette, and two lights. In the middle of all these portraits of women is a large card cut in the shape of a black devil with red tongue and horns, standing in fire. One card is missing from the arrangement.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 50 with People and Animals
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. A girl in boots and trousers.2. Three children with a small carriage harnessed to a large dog.3. A man on skis with a pack on his back.4. A saleswoman holding a tray of flowers around her neck.5. A woman dressed as a soldier with breastplate, sword, boots, hat, and skirt. Card says: "Army."6. A girl holding a heart made of flowers.7. Two children putting a doll on the back of a dog.8. A circus woman doing tricks while riding a horse in a ring.9. A brown dog's face.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 51 with Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight small advertising cards surrounding one large central card. The central card is 15 x 24 cm. and shows a woman in a blue dress with the ocean behind her. Two of the small cards show women. The others show flowers and in some, hands.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 52 with Stoves and People
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards showing the following:1. A folded card with a man frowning that says: "The effects of using inferior and low grade Tobaccos." When you unfold the card the man looks happy and is holding a packet of tobacco. Inside says: "The result of using Wilson and McCallay's Standard 'Happy Thought' Wave Lineplug Tobacco."2. Three African Americans overwhelmed by the smell of a stove. Card says: "See here Pompey, dat paste polish am no good de smell am so bad, run you right away fetch me de Rising Sun, dat will make me glad."3. A round stove.4. Two women in a park looking at a magazine.5. A dog dressed as a man, carrying a tray of meat.6. Three people and a cat kneeling on the floor looking at their reflections in a stove. Card says: "Rising Sun Stove Polish. 'I say Snow Flake, dat stove was blacked with Rising Sun. Did you eber see de like?'"7. A woman and man standing together.8. A couple seated at a dining table being served by an African American man.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 58 with Women and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A couple looking into each other's eyes as the woman plays a mandolin.2. A winter scene of a house in snow.3. A woman in fancy dress and large hat holding a fan.4. Flowers and a banner that says: "Knowledge is Power."5. Three children posing for a studio style portrait.6. A woman in fancy dress with fan. Card is cut to shape and says: "Fiametta."7. A baby with spoons and a can of preserved milk that says: "Gail Borden Eagle Brand."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 59 with Feathers, Flowers, and Women
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. Flowers (two cards cut to shape).2. A large feather and flowers (two cards).3. Two women sewing. Card says: "Using Poor Spool Cotton."4. A woman standing at a piano. Card says: "Estey Piano Co. New York, Manufacturers...""5. Flowers and doves.6. A woman knitting with a girl hugging her from behind and a cat rubbing on her arm.7. Three tiny clowns struggling to lay a bottle on a table.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 62 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing eighteen advertising cards of people, all cut to shape. Cards vary in size from 3 x 3 cm. to 8 x 14 cm. and show a woman with parasol and dog, a girl with flowers, a woman ice skating, a man watching a cat play the cello, a man with a whistle or flute, girls having a tea party, a woman singing, and two men with large beards. Six of the cards appear to be from the same set, showing children in traditional dress of some sort.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 63 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing 22 advertising cards of people and some animals, all cut to shape. Cards vary in size from 2.5 x 2.5 cm. to 11 x 12 cm. and show a cat, an elephant, a horse, Santa Claus, children as angels, children with flowers, women in fancy lace collars, and a woman with a parasol.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 66 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards depicting people arranged around a central card with paper lace. The eight cards each have a color border and artwork showing the following:1. A woman in ancient dress dancing.2. An elderly couple sitting for a drink of wine.3. A woman with romantic floral border.4. A man riding a horse holding a guitar.5. A girl holding a cat.6. A woman leaning against a wall.7. A woman sitting on a crescent moon in the sky. (Card is pasted upside down.)8. Children begging for food from a woman selling breads on the street.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 67 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards all cut to shape showing mainly people including a man in decorated military uniform, a king, three women, two men in feathered hats, and a woman in a flowered dress. Cards also show a sailing ship and a church with mountains behind.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 69 with Outdoor Country Scenes, Lace, and Flowers
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards as follows:1. Four cards are in the shape of a book, the front covers showing: a church in winter, a couple sitting on a bench, a woman in a field with cows, and women doing laundry in a lake. One card says: "The White, The King of all Sewing Machines." All four cards say: "Copyrighted 1883 by E. Wolf Phila." 2. Two cards have paper lace and embossing. One of these opens to show a poem (which is obscured by damage).3. Two identical cards show roses and a hand.4. One card shows people boating, walking, and picnicing on the grounds of a tudor style building.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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: 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: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 71 with Calling Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing 14 calling cards arranged artfully around a large (15 x 32 cm.) advertising card showing a full length view of a woman in a blue dress carrying flowers. The calling cards have various images including flowers, a train, a woman with bow and arrow, a cupid, a tropical palace, and a fish bowl. Cards are for: Mrs. R. Thayer; L. I. Rogers, Norwich, Conn.; Amanda D. Arnold; B(?)edette Gilbert; James M. Cheatwood; B. Oppenheimer; Division 122. W. J. Miller, Pana, Illinois; Miss E. B. Long; Dollie B. Walter; Gracie A. Chete; Eugene L. Williams; Lydia A. Cotton; Henry G. Hains.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 73 with People Sewing
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Three are "Copyright 1894, by the Singer Manufacturing Co." printed by "J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y." They show the following:1. Three adults and a child in a room, one using a sewing machine. Card says: "Lerwick."2. Four black men in grass skirts kneeling around a sewing machine outside. Card says: "Caroline Islands."3. A woman in traditional dress using a sewing machine. Card says: "Wurtemburg." The other cards show:1. A woman in ancient dress leaning on a wall. Lower left corner of card says: "MKCo."2. A couple with a wall of posters behind them. 3. A battle scene identified as "Arizona."4. A donkey and geese outside looking at an empty puppet theater.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 75 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards showing the following:1. A man standing on two stones in a river offering to help a woman on the bank into a boat. Card says: "Wade and Cumming Clothing, Cor 8th Av. and 23d St., Grand Opera House." Lower right corner says: "Chas. Shields Sons, 20 and 22 Gold St. N.Y."2. A team of two horses and a man plowing a field.3. A woman wearing a yellow dress and hat in the woods.4. A person with sword in black Elizabethan dress including tights, collar, cloak, and hat.5. A woman in blue dress and feathered hat.6. Two men in the street carrying boxes with crank handles. One has a monkey. A spool of thread hovering over them says: "J. and P. Coats Best Six Cord."7. A man walking along smoking and carrying a stick and a bottle of "Pond's Extract." Card says: "Bound for Donnybrook Fair, Fully Equipped. Copyrighted 1892 by Pond's Extract Co."8. Three calling cards with images of flowers and a windmill for Mrs. Christian Harmon, Miss Lou Neal, and William Cook.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 79 with Women and Birds
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards with women and birds. Two cards show girls holding birds. Two cards show women in blue and lace dresses. Two identical cards show two long-tailed parrots and three other birds perched on branches. Two cards each show a bird perched on a branch with an insect flying nearby. One says: "Couch and Woodruff, Fine Shoes, Bridgeport Conn." The other says: "L. H. Johnson, Practical Horse Shoer, 51 Whalley Ave., New Haven, Conn." and right corner says: "Eureka Co., New Haven."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 8 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine advertising and calling cards showing the following: 1. A woman riding a horse jumping over a stone wall. Card says: "Faith Whitcomb's Liniment, Cures Rheumatism and Neuralgia..." Chas. Shields Sons, 20 and 22 Gold St, N.Y." 2. A butler holding a tray. Card says: "Howe's Special Bargain House, 254 Main St., Worcester..."" 3. A woman in a yellow dress and fur coat. Card says: "J. N. Gloyes, Fine Shoes, Utica, N. Y..." Mayer, Merkel and Ottmann, Lith. N.Y."4. An embossed calling card that says: "Edward Laughlin."5. Holly, a rose, and a bell on black background. Bell says: "Merry Christmas."6. Embossed card with flowers and a hand holding a locket.7. A man walking through a winter storm holding an umbrella. Card says: "A Merry Christmas. In spite of wind and weather."8. A card with text only advertising a vacation to Chicago during the World's Fair Exposition from "Missouri Valley World's Fair Transportation Co., Rooms 1011 and 1012 New York Life Building, F. O. Derr, Manager" for "$36.00, Payable 40 cents per week." 9. A man at a bar pouring from a bottle, but missing his glass. Card says: "A Whiskey Straight. The result of not using The Great American Tea Co's Celebrated Teas and Coffees."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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