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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 58 with Women and Children
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Description
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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."
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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 4 with People and Scenes of Country Life
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Description
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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.
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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 8 with Unrelated Cards
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Description
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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."
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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
