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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 55 with People and Pets
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1887~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 26 with Athletes
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Description
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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).
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Date
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1887~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 27 with Athletes
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1887~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Herrick Clothing Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for Herrick Clothing Company showing portraits of President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Front of card says: "Oct. 13th 1887." and "Sell the best clothing made for men, boys and children." In lower right front corner card says: "Gast St.L. and N.Y." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: "Corner Main and 6th Streets, Kansas City, MO..."
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Date
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1887~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
