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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 43 with Santa and Children
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Description
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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.
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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 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 64 with Old Woman and Two Children
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Scrapbook page containing ten small advertising cards arranged around a large card (22 x 30 cm.) showing two children putting a feather in an old woman's cap, perhaps their grandmother. The small cards mainly show flowers, some also have images of hands. One shows a couple dressed in ancient (Egyptian?) dress.
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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 40 with Boys Playing
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six. Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a boy playing a game or prank, getting in trouble, or doing some work. Images include a handstand, ice skating, sliding, driving a goat cart, leap-frog, tug of war, snow ball fights, sledding, hide and seek, baseball, marbles, fighting, fishing, stealing apples, babysitting, showing off new clothes, carrying school books.
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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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Title
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Palace Clothing Co., The
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Description
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Advertising card for The Palace Clothing Co. showing nine boys having a snowball fight. Front of card identifies "D. Simon, Resident Manager." On the right of the image is number 718 and on the left it says: "Bufford." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 905 Main Street, .."" Kansas City, Mo.."
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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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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, The
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing two children fallen off a sled in the snow. Caption says: "Get Off!" Card is cut in shape of children on ground; top of child's leg is missing. Bottom of card: "Copyright by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. N.Y." Back of card lists branch houses and their locations in cities around the U.S. Back also says: "N.B.--Beware of mushroom concerns." Kansas City address given on back of card: 927 Main St.Kansas City, Mo.
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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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A. H. Whitney Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for A. H. Whitney Co. showing a boy standing in a pond facing off with a frog sitting on the bank. The boy holds a pitch fork behind his back and the frog is pointing a gun at the boy. Front of card says: "C. B. Detrick, Mgr. A. H. Whitney Co., Pianos and Organs." Front lower left corner has number C-930. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 18 West 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.
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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 56 with Children
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. An African American man holding a duck and basket. Card says: "Chas. E. Marsh, Printer and Stationer, Greenville, N. H."2. Two cards for:.""Curtis Davis and Co. Boston, Mass. Welcome Soap." showing a woman holding a baby while a man admires it and a sailor running to embrace a woman. Lower right corner of both cards says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York."3. A child holding up a bottle labeled, "Burdock Blood Bitters."4. A child playing a mandolin.5. Flowers and a geometric border. Card says: "Reward of Merit to Hattie Light by Mollie Hayes, Teacher.."(Names are handwritten.)6. A girl holding flowers.7. A coachman with a whip and very large head.8. Two children sitting in a chair with a doll and a brochure with a man leaning over the back watching them. Card says: "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Cures Colds, Coughs, and all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Prepared by J. C. Ayers and Co. Lowell, Mass, U. S. A."
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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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Title
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Midland Tobacco Works
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Description
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Advertising card for Midland Tobacco Works showing a girl and a boy sitting in a large basket "rowing" with brooms as if it is a boat. Front of card says: "Chew 'Silver Cross' Plug, You will like it. Manufactured by Midland Tobacco Works." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: Kansas City, Mo. No street address is given.
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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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Title
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W. H. Collins
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Description
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Advertising card for W. H. Collins showing a girl in a winter coat and hat pulling a sled through the snow. Front of card says: "The Genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills and Vermifuge." Front lower right corner has number 706 and lower left corner says: "Bufford." Back of card has a testimonial about the product followed by: "The only genuine Dr. C. McLane's Vermifuge, Is Prepared only by FLEMING BROS., Pittsburgh. For sale by W. H. Collins, City Drug Store." Address given on back of card:
4th & Main Sts.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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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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Title
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Holland's Shoe and Clothing House
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Description
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Advertising card for Holland's Shoe and Clothing House showing two young children polishing a large boot on wheels. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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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 63 with People
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Description
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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.
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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 62 with People
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Description
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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.
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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 61 with Children, Angels, Fans, and Lace
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing fans, an angel, baskets of flowers, children with flowers, and a couple walking with a parasol and a jester doll. Many of these cards have special aspects such as paper lace, multiple layers, embossing, fabric fringe, glitter, and metallic gold color.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Globe Shoe Parlors
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Description
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Advertising card for Globe Shoe Parlors showing a girl in a red dress. Caption says: "The Head of the Class." One of eight cards with similarly designed pictures of children. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 728 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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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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Globe Shoe Parlors
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Description
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Advertising card for Globe Shoe Parlors showing a boy in a hat carrying books with his head down. Caption says: "Compulsory Education." One of eight cards with similarly designed pictures of children. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 728 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
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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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A. Holland
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Description
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Advertising card for A. Holland with an image of a girl and boy standing under an umbrella superimposed over a bell and surrounded by flowers. Card is cut in the shape of the bell. Front of card says: "A. Holland...Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Boots and Shoes." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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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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A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House
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Description
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Advertising card for A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House showing a long, rutted road in snow. The image is bordered by flowers and a bird. Front lower left corner has number 838. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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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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A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House
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Advertising card for A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House showing a framed scene of a river surrounded by snow bordered by pink roses and a flying bird. Front lower left corner has number 840. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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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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A. Holland, Shoe and Clothing House
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Description
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Advertising card for A. Holland Shoe and Clothing House showing a scene of a church in winter inside a cresent moon next to a pink rose. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 551 and 553 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
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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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