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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: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 43 with Santa and Children
Description: Scrapbook page containing ten advertising cards, all cut to the shape of their image, showing the following:1. Santa carrying presents (two cards).2. A girl with ringlets and a hat, holding a ball (two identical cards).3. A girl with ringlets and a hat holding a teddybear.4. A woman in lace head cover.5. Flowers, two cards with hands and doves, one with birds, and one with a book.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 47 with Calling Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing four advertising cards and ten calling cards. The advertising cards each show a woman or child; one woman holds a cat, one child reads, one child carries a box. The names on the calling cards are under a flap with images of flowers and hands, and on some, doves. Calling cards are for: Sarah A. Whitman, Mrs. Mary J. Adgate, Frank Y. Hill, Maggie E. Baker, Nancy Lincoln, Willie Salmon, Annie E. Nelson, Matthew W. Coffey. The flaps on two cards don't lift up.
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 20 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards showing the following:1. A robin, rose, and house. Card says: "Shaub and Burns, Shoe Dealers, 14 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa...""2. A woman and man cuddling on the beach behind an umbrella, a sailing ship in the water.3. A bird and a flower. Card says: "Use Niagara Gloss Starch. Unexcelled for the Laundry."4. A man sitting on a step hugging a monkey in a red suit inside his coat.5. A farm woman standing in hay holding a rake. Card says: "Bookmark."6. A woman in brightly colored dress sitting in a hammock holding a red parasol. 7. A woman in a pink dress kneeling down to show a man a large, fancy looking stove. Card says: "'Quick Meal Gasoline Stove always work [sic] well.'" Lower right corner has number 957 and lower left corner says: "Kaufmann and Strauss Co., N.Y."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 15 with Birds
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows a bird bordered by a scene of nature or hunting. Cards identify birds and say: "Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes are the best." Birds shown: Troupial, Golden Plover, Yellow-head, Amandava, Painted Bunting, Linnet, The Banded Araçari Toucan, King Rail, Black-breasted Barbet, Audubons Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Red Head Duck.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 21 with People
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards depicting people and cut to the shape of the image. The large central card shows a woman in a straw hat with a dog. Her purse says "Buckeye" and the dog's collar says "Aultman Miller." The other six cards are smaller. Four show women, one holding a mandolin. Two show men, one a blacksmith with hammer and anvil, one an architect(." with protractor and blueprints.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 5 with Stars of Orders
Description: Scrapbook page containing twelve advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows the medallion or star of a particular order of various countries including:Order of the Dannebrog, DenmarkRedeemer, GreeceMilitary Order of St. George, RussiaOrder of the Indian Empire, Gt. BritainOrder of the White Falcon, Saxe VeimarOrder of Gregory the Great, Holy SeeOrder of the Crown, Germany, originally PrussiaOrder of the Zaehringen Lion, BadenOrder of the Golden Spur, Holy SeeOrder of St. Andrew, RussiaOrder of St. Michael, BavariaSt. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Italy.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 12 with Unrelated Cards
Description: 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."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 48 with Puns
Description: Scrapbook page containing 22 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six (two cards are missing). Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and creates a pun by illustrating a phrase in an unintended way such as a man wearing Scottish dress dancing for "Hop Scotch," a cow wearing a suit, tie, and top hat for "Dressed Beef," a hunter running away from a bear for "A Bare Chance," a boy stealing a man's pocket watch for "Losing Time," a very ugly woman for "Unmatched," and a man hanged from a tree for "A Drop Too Much."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 1, Introductory Page
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Five of these are decorated letters which spell out "CARDS." The other two are pasted above and below the letters and cut to the shape of their image. One shows a hand holding a basket of roses. One shows two white doves sitting among roses.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 35 with Stars of Orders
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six. Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows the medallion or star of a particular order of various countries including:Order of the Indian Empire, Gt. BritainOrder of Merit, PrussiaOrder of St. Andrew, RussiaImperial Order of the Medjidie, TurkeyThe Order of the Netherlands Lion of HollandOrder of the Golden Spur, Holy SeeOrder of the Polar Star, SwedenChrist, Holy SeeMily. Order of William Netherlands or HollandAncient and Most Noble Order of the Tower and Sword, PortugalOrder of the Sun and Lion, PersiaOrder of the Iron Crown, AustriaOrder of Gregory the Great, Holy SeeOrder of the Crown of Oak, LuxembourgBadge of the Society of Cincinnati, U. S. of A.St. Michael and St. George, Gt. BritainOrder of the House of Hohenzollern, PrussiaOrder of the White Falcon, Saxe WeimarThe Imp.' Order of the Rose of BrazilOrder of the Bath, Gt. BritainJewel of Order of St. Patrick, Gt. BritainOrder of the Dannebrog, DenmarkImp.' Order of Frances-Joseph of Austria, ChevalierJewel of the Order of the Thistle, Gt. Britain
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Front Cover
Description: Front cover of a scrapbook of advertising and calling cards. It is red and embossed and has images of white flowers and a sculpture of an angel riding a lion. It says "Scrap Book" and has a typewritten label that reads: "Gift to the Kansas City Public Library, N. Clyde Degginger."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Inside Front Cover
Description: Inside front cover of a scrapbook of advertising and calling cards containing the cover of a magazine: "Old Sleuth Library. A series of the most thrilling Detective Stories ever published. No. 59. Vol. III. Price 5 Cents. George Munro, Publisher, Nos. 17 to 27 Vandewater Street, New York." It has an image of a man looking at another man seated on a bed in a jail cell and portraits of three people. It says: "Old Sleuth, Badger and Co. by Old Sleuth." Two address labels above the cover say: "N. C. Degginger, 2823 Harrison, Kansas City, Missouri."
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 30 with Traditional Costumes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six. Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a portrait of a man in the traditional dress of a country or ethnic group. Cards identify the country and say: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Countries or areas shown:AmericanFranceEnglandItalyPatagoniaEskimoHindustanPortugalZanzibar (Turk)MoroccoBulgariaRussiaHaytiSiamAlbaniaTripoli (two copies)New CaledoniaJapanAnnamSwitzerlandAmerica (Indian)TartaryAbyssinia
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 32 with African American Stereotypes
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards showing African Americans in various situations. Two of the cards are missing. The cards show:1. Two geese with bodies made of bags of tobacco and cotton flying over a man in a field. Card says: "Copyright. Richmond and Co., Buffalo, N.Y."2. A man holding a fishing rod sitting by a river on a large spool of "Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Caption says: "'I reckon dis yere's strong 'nuff suah.'"3. A woman fixing a man's tie as three children look on. Caption says: "Sunday. Yer looks Lubly Ephraim, and it all comes-using dat Higgins' Soap."4. A woman and some children opening the door to a visitor or salesman whose coat tails are being nibbled by a goat. Card says: "Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co."5. A man sitting holding a tambourine.6. Two people in "native" dress leading an elephant. Card says: "Soap Makers, Chicago. 'Blue India.'"7. A man singing.8. 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?'"
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 68 with Winter Scenes
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards. Four cards with similar design and theme show houses in snowy winter scenes surrounded by a gray border. Three cards are black with colorful scenes of a woman and man embracing next to a flag, a man and woman buying flowers from a woman under a large umbrella, and three men holding a blank banner. One card is black with flowers and has a banner saying: "To .."." For Neat Work .."." Teacher.."(The blanks are not filled in.)
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 10 with Animals
Description: Scrapbook page containing 12 advertising cards arranged in four rows of three. Each card is 7 x 8 cm. and shows an animal bordered by a scene of nature or hunting. Cards identify animals and say: "Allen and Ginter, Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes." Animals shown: moose, peccary, lynx, llama, bloodhound (dog), zebra, otter, musk ox, zebu, bighorn, lion, dromedary (camel).
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 76 with African Americans
Description: Scrapbook page containing six small advertising cards arranged around a newspaper or magazine cut-out. This cut-out is 20 x 26 cm. and shows what appears to be a political cartoon of an African American woman in high heels and revealing feathered dress on a beach with the following poem: "Lili to Grover. You listened to my DOLE-ful tale;/ You tried your best--'twas no avail./ It's through no fault of yours or mine/ That I can't be your VALENTINE." Below image it says:."(The above PENNY VALENTINE was included in the last mail from Hawaii, but through some mistake was not transmitted to the senate.." The small cards are all cut to shape and show African Americans eating, grooming, and bathing.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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