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Title: T. Lee Adams
Description: Advertising card for T. Lee Adams showing a dog surrounded by cattails and reeds. Front of card says: "Compliments of T. Lee Adams, Dealer in Field and Garden Seeds. Telephone 432.." .D. Landreth and Son's Garden, Flower and Lawn Seeds." Front lower left corner has number C-782. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 419 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: T. Lee Adams
Description: Advertising card for T. Lee Adams showing a rural scene with castle surrounded by a border of pansies and a bird. Front of card says: "Compliments of T. Lee Adams, Dealer in Field and Garden Seeds. Telephone 432.." .D. Landreth and Son's Garden, Flower and Lawn Seeds." Front lower left corner has number C-794. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 419 Walnut 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 bouquet of flowers identified as Gladioli. Back of card gives "Interesting facts about baking powder" and says: "150 stores in United States." Kansas City address is not given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Leis' German Baking Powder
Description: Advertising card for unknown company with image of pink flower. Front of card has poem: "Leis' German Baking Powder, Is the best, Used in the West; Give it a test, And you will be blest." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1304 Union Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Western Installment Book Company, The
Description: Advertising card for The Western Installment Book Company with image of flower (rose). One of two cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 218 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A. J. Runkle and Co.
Description: Advertising card for A. J. Runkle and Co. showing a girl holding a doll and reaching for a flower in a vase. One of four cards with similar design. Front of card says: "A. J. Runkle and Co., Fancy Goods, Notions, Jewelry, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, andc." Front lower left corner has number 245; lower right corner says: "Copyright 1880 by F. Todd." Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1044 and 1046 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1880
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 Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., The
Description: Advertising card for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. showing girl and boy holding hands and swinging around. Card is cut in shape of swinging people. Back of card has small image of an A&P Baking Powder container and advertising copy including: "Interesting facts about baking powder..."if you value good health, use our tea, coffees and baking powder" and "200 stores in United States." No Kansas City address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 57 with Portraits and People in Outdoor Scenes
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight smaller advertising cards arranged artfully around a larger central card. Central card shows a woman holding a rose. Two small cards show a boy and a girl with flowers. Two tiny cards cut to shape show a girl's face in a flower and a fan. The four other cards show the following:1. Two cards from: "McDonald and Co. 54 State St., Rochester, N. Y. Edwin C. Burt, Fine Shoes." One card shows a couple riding in a sailboat made of a shoe. The other shows a woman being carried in a shoe by dark-skinned, scantilly clad servants. Lower left corner of both cards says: "MKCo."2. Two eskimo or Inuit people riding in a sled pulled by a team of dogs.3. A man carrying a large basket of dishes on his head falling through a window as onlookers are shocked. Caption in French says: "Double Effet De Glaces."
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 2 with Hands and Flowers
Description: Scrapbook page containing eight small advertising or calling cards arranged around one larger central card. The central card shows a man bowing and a woman curtsying as they are introduced. It says: "Geo. A. Clark and Bro. Agents for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Around the large card are six calling cards with flaps that have images of hands and flowers, and on some, a model sailing ship, doves, horseshoe, shaking hands, and a quill. The flaps lift up to reveal names: Horace D. Lawrence, Geo. W. Sandys, Curtis M. Dewey, Mrs. M. J. Gilmore (two flaps don't lift up). To the sides of the large card are cards cut to the shape of the flowers they depict. One has little people instead of flower buds.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Swift and Company
Description: Advertising card for Swift and Company showing a classically dressed woman in sandals, a diaphanous gown, and a fur cape. She has long blonde hair and is holding holly above her head. Edges of card are embossed. Card has some damage. Back of card says: "Wool Soap for Toilet and Bath. There are many people who suppose that, because of its name, Wool Soap is intended for washing woolens only. This is a misconception which Swift and Company are especially desirous of rectifying. Wool Soap is pre-eminently a toilet and bath soap .."." We are large producers of prime tallow, and none but our most carefully selected stock enters into the manufacture of Wool Soap .."." Swift and Company Packing Plants at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Over Two Hundred and Fifty Branch Houses in the United States." Bottom of card says: "American Lithographic Co., N.Y.." No street address is given.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 38 with State Capitols
Description: Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in eight rows of three showing the State capitol buildings and a few other government buildings. Each card is 4 x 7 cm and identifies the building pictured. One card says: "Use Granger and Co.'s Anchor Brand Soda." The following buildings are depicted:Capitol of the United States in WashingtonNational Museum in Washington, D. C.Patent Office in WashingtonBureau of Printing and Engraving in WashingtonPension Building in WashingtonCapitol of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg Capitol of Massachusetts in BostonCapitol of Maryland in AnnapolisCapitol of New York in AlbanyCapitol of Colorado in DenverCapitol of Connecticut in HartfordCapitol of North Carolina in RaleighCapitol of Kentucky in FrankfortCapitol of Louisiana in Baton RougeCapitol of Maine in AugustaCapitol of Arkansas in Little RockCapitol of Wisconsin in MadisonCapitol of Vermont in MontpelierCapitol of Virginia in RichmondCapitol of Oregon in SalemCapitol of Illinois in SpringfieldCapitol of Iowa in Des Moines Capitol of Nebraska in Lincoln
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 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
Description: Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 13 with Hands, Flowers, and Doves
Description: Scrapbook page containing nine small advertising cards arranged around one larger central card. The central card shows and is cut in the shape of a woman playing a flute. Seven of the smaller cards have images of hands and flowers. In two the hands hold mirrors, in three doves, and in two envelopes (both these cards are cut in the shape of fans)." Another card has flowers with a silver crest in the middle. The last card is a tiny girl, cut to shape.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 25 with Unrelated Cards
Description: Scrapbook page containing six advertising cards showing the following:1. Two girls picking flowers in a meadow.2. A large white and black dog laying down. Card says: "Use Day's Soap."3. A farm scene of cows by a house and barn surrounded by a border of flowers.4. A person in a canoe by a log cabin in a swamp. Card says: "Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever and Ague and all malarial disorders. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass." In the corner is a small picture of two frogs giving a bottle to an alligator.5. An image of a street corner with a building flying the Confederate, American, British, and French flags and others.6. A gray card with brightly colored flowers and a poem about Narcissus and Christmas and the New Year.
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 56 with Children
Description: 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."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 31 with Traditional Costumes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 24 advertising cards arranged in four rows of six. Each card is 4 x 7 cm. Eleven of them show portraits of men in the traditional dress of a country. Cards identify the country and say: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Countries or areas shown: Servia, Scotland, Arabia, Egypt, Dahomey, South Africa (Boer), Greece, Java, Circassia, Mexico, Brazil. The 13 other cards appear to be from other sets including: 1. Two of gorillas: male and female. 2. Two of flowers: Lilac ("First emotions of love") and Sweet Violet ("Modesty."" Cards say "Ruby Cigarettes. Lone Jack Cigarettes Co. Lynchburg, Virginia. Isaac Friedenwald Lith. Balto." 3. One with Bolivian flag. Card says: "Allen and Ginter Cigarettes. Richmond, Virginia." 4. Two of women fishing: Sturgeon and Klipp Fish. 5. One with images of a flag, "Commodores Pennant, U. S. Navy," and "The Mississippi River Near Dubuque." Card says: "Our average sales are over Two Million Per Day." 6. Two of portraits of women. 7. One of a girl and flowers which says: "Wild English Daisies: Daintiness." 8. One with a photograph of a woman identified as Miss Vickers. Card says: "Admiral Cigarettes." 9. One of a man in a ship's crow's nest looking at a whale. Card says: "On a Whaling Voyage."
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

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