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Title: J. W. Boyer
Description: Advertising card for "J. W. Boyer, Gen'l Agent, Independence, Mo." Advertisements on the card are for shoe manufacturers.
Date: 1873
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing woman standing by tea service holding a cup of tea. Small inset pictures shows old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Tiny caption under inset picture says: "'The Gt. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co's celebrated teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Card is cut in shape of clam shell. Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and a printed lace border. It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing a white dove sitting in front of a large cross covered with pink roses. Front of card says: "Our Easter Offering." Front lower right corner says: "Copyrighted 1886 by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company New York." Back of card has extensive advertising copy about "pure teas, coffees and baking powder," and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 923 Main St.
Date: 1886
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing three girls sitting underneath a broken umbrella each holding a kitten. Caption says: "Three little kittens." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" and lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St. Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1884
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: J. E. Vincent and Co.
Description: Advertising card for J. E. Vincent and Co. showing two sailing ships and a border of flowers. Front of card says: "Vincent's Millinery Opening, April 19 and 20, 1883." Front lower left corner has number 27 and says: "Copyright by Robinson Eng. Co. Boston U.S.A. 1880." 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 is blank except for tiny text: "Harrington, Typ." Address given inside card: 701 Main St., cor. Seventh, Kansas City.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing woman and man riding a bicycle. The bicycle spokes are the printed addresses of the company's branch houses around the U.S. Card is cut in shape of the bicycle and riders. Back of card has advertising copy and says among other things: "128 Stores in the United States" and "Positively no polishing matter used in roasting our coffees...no ingredients whatever being used to make them glossy. Beware of glossy coffees." Kansas City address given on front of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great A&P Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing dog lying in bed under bedspread with small dishes on bedside table. Caption says: "Convalescent." Card is molded into a tray shape (broken at the edges). Back of card lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Also says: "Be sure and give A&P Baking Powder a trial and we will guarantee you will use no other." Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing a boy and donkey standing next to a seated old woman who is touching the donkey's head. Caption says: "'Is that you Tommy? for I can't see;' Yes Granny: 'Bless the child why don't yer mother cut yer hair?'" Card is cut in shape of people pictured. Back of card has small image of horse team pulling a wagon that says: "Sultana" and "Suez Canal." It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Caption says: "'The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Card is cut in oval shape and has some damage where parts of image have been scraped. Back of card says: "The picture of Grand Mother on the other side, represents one of the many hundred thousand, whose lives have been prolonged to a good old age, by using only The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Cos. pure teas and coffees." It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. and headquarters at 35 and 37 Vesey St., New York. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1883
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 82 with Photographic Postcards
Description: Scrapbook page containing five photographs or photographic postcards. Four images are of graves in Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone and one is of horses and buggies outside of the Tombstone Epitaph building. The grave markers say:1. "Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Tex Howard, Bill DeLaney, Dan Kelly, Legally Hanged Mar. 8 1884."2. "Billy Clanton, Tom McLowery, Frank McFlowery, Murdered on the streets of Tombstone 1881." 3. "John Heath, Taken from County Jail and Lynched by Bisbee Mob in Tombstone, Feb. 22, 1884."4. "George Johnson, Hanged by mistake."
Object Type: Postcard

Title: SC3 Advertising Card Collection Finding Aid
Description: Collection of cards used for advertising purposes in the late 19th century. Includes colorful illustrations for many types of products. The over 600 cards from Kansas City businesses have been digitized.
Date: 1860/1905
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC3 Advertising Cards Vertical File List
Description: These business or company name vertical files for the advertising cards from the late nineteenth century (circa 1880s-1900) have information about the company or business or people involved.
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Martin, Snyder and Co.
Description: Advertising card for Martin, Snyder and Co. showing a child blowing a horn riding a chick with only its head, tail, and feet broken out of its shell. Front of card says: "Wholesale and Retail Representatives, Weber, Kranich and Bach, Bush and Gerts Pianos, Martin, Snyder and Co." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: S. W. Corner 11th and Walnut Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1895~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Martin, Snyder and Co.
Description: Advertising card for Martin, Snyder and Co. showing a blonde girl and a donkey leaning over a fence to look at a rose. Front of card says: "Wholesale and Retail Representatives, Weber, Kranich and Bach, Bush and Gerts Pianos, Martin, Snyder and Co." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: S. W. Corner 11th and Walnut Streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1895~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing woman sitting holding a small dog and a baby with the dog's ear in her mouth. Caption says: "Confusion." Small inset picture shows old woman with a cup of tea and saucer. Caption above the inset: "Copyrighted 1884." Tiny caption under inset picture says: "'The Gt. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co's celebrated teas and coffees have been my solace through life' -Grandmother." Back of card has small image of "Grandmother" with repeated caption. It lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo. (Address is slightly rubbed off.)
Date: 1884~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Moore and Snyder
Description: Tiny advertising label for Moore and Snyder cut in the shape of a small, green leaf with toothed edge. Front of card says: "Moore and Snyder, Sole Agents for Sohmer Pianos. Repairing and Finishing." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 819 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Moore and Snyder
Description: Advertising card for Moore and Snyder showing a ship, sphinx, and palm trees. Card is pale pink. Front of card says: "H. R. Moore. L. E. Snyder. Moore and Snyder, Sole Agent's for Sohmer Pianos...Repairing and Finishing a Specialty." Front lower left corner has number 158. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 819 Main St., 2nd Floor, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1882~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 55 with People and Pets
Description: Scrapbook page containing eleven advertising cards. Four small cards are cut to the shape of their image and show three cats and a dog. The other seven cards show the following:1. A girl picking apples. Card says: "Use Acme Soap .."." Best bar soap made."2. A girl in fancy hat and collar. Card says: "Muzzy's Corn Starch. Purity." Lower left corner has number I 65 and right corner says: "Shober and Carqueville, Chicago."3. A clown running from his shadow. Card says: "Middleboro Skating Rink, Town Hall, Middleboro, Mass..."""4. Ten African American children and babies gathered around an old man in a rocking chair next to a stove. Card says: "What Uncle Obadia says about Dixon's Stove Polish. Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish. Copyright 1887."5. A short, fat man with cymbals and a tall, thin man with a flute or whistle. Card says: "The Latest Importation, Coney-Island Musicians." Compliments of Bush and Bull, Largest Dry Goods Dealers, 305, 307, 309 and 311 Northampton St. Easton, Pa."6. A British, a Confederate, and a Union soldier holding hands and dancing around an obelisk marked "Bunker Hill." Next to them a grave says "Hatchet." and three dates are marked on card: 1861, 1776, and 1876.7. A woman sitting on a bench under a tree with a man in uniform.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 26 with Athletes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 19 advertising cards arranged in four rows of five (card in upper right corner is missing). Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a portrait of and identifies an athlete and, usually, their sport. All but one card says: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Billiards, shooting, boxing, rowing, and baseball are included. Athletes shown: Shooters, Miss Annie Oakley, Capt. A. H. Bogardus, Dr. W. F. Carver;Billiard players, M. Vignaux, Albert Frey;Boxers, Jem Smith, Jimmy Carroll, Jake Kilrain, Charlie Mitchell, Terry McGovern;Rowers, Jacob Gaudaur, Albert Hamm;Baseball player, Charles Comiskey;Unidentified sports, Theo. Bauer, Joe Lannon, Wm. Muldoon, Ike Weir, Joe Acton, Matsada Sorakichi (all these men are pictured shirtless like the boxers).
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 27 with Athletes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 15 advertising cards arranged in four rows of five (entire lower row is missing). Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a portrait of and identifies an athlete and, usually, their sport. Cards say: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Billiards, rowing, and baseball are included. Athletes shown: Billiard players, Wm. Sexton, Maurice Daly, Jos. Dion, Geo. F. Slosson, J. Schaefer, J. L. Malone, Yank Adams;Baseball players, John Clarkson (Boston), Mike Kelly (Boston);Rowers, E. A. Trickett, Ed. Hanlan, Wallace Ross, John Teemer;Unidentified sports, J. H. McLaughlin, R. L. Caruthers.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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