Au H20

Election advertisement for Senator Barry Goldwater.

Found in "Soviet Conduct in World Affairs" edited by Alexander Dallin. Published by Columbia University Press, 1962.

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The Thread

Trade card advertising J & P Coats Thread.

Found in "Flat Iron For a Farthing" by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Published by Donohue and Co., no date.

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Curtsy

Trade card advertising H.A. Fisher Pianos and Organs, Oneonta NY.

Found in "The Realm of Music" by Louis C. Elson. Published by The New England Conservatory of Music, 1892.


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Low Notes

Trade card advertising Emerson Piano Co., Boston MA.

Found in "Grasses and Forage Plants: A Treatise" by Charles L. Flint. Published by William F. Gill Co., 1874.


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Bitter Pill

Trade card advertising "Burdock Blood Bitters."

Found in "The Ladies' Repository: Volume 20" edited by The Rev. D.W. Clark. Published by Poe & Hitchcock, 1860.

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Wag The Dog

Two trade card illustrations.

Found in "New Waggings of Old Tales" by J.K. Bangs and Frank Dempster Sherman. Published by Ticknor and Co., 1888.


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All Anyone Can Desire

 Advertisement for copper engraved signatures:

Your name will be written and engraved on copper in the same artistic manner as the above signatures and the plate sent by registered mail to your address for $5. 100 cards on fine quality board, from plate, $1 extra. The finest engraver in the world does the work, and the penmanship is all any one can desire. Copies of this sheet, 10 cents each, 4 for 25 cents.

Found in "Simple Notions de Francais" by Paul Bercy. Published by Brentano's, 1894.

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Ahoy

Trade card advertising I.H. Leyden and Bothers, Clothing and Furnishing Goods, Syracuse NY.

Found in "The Pioneers" by James Fenimore Cooper. Published by Appleton, 1879.


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Transformation

Matchbook advertising the Leonard Whiting Insurance Center, Hancock NY.

Found in "Modernization: The Transformation of American Life 1600-1865" by Richard D. Brown. Published by Hill and Wang, 1976.

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Boots, Shoes and Rubbers

Business card of H. Dockstaders, Little Falls NY.

Found in "The Iron Gate and Other Poems" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Published by Houghton, Mifflin, 1880.


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Better Than Any Soap

Trade card advertising James Pyle's Pearline Washing Compound.

Found in "The Tree Dwellers" by Katherine E. Dopp. Published by Rand McNally, 1903.

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Carry On

Trade card advertising Moline Plow Co., Moline IL.

Found in "All In It: K(1) Carries On" by Ian Hay. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1917.

 

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Puzzled

Trade card advertising Pond's Extract. This one is a puzzle card, with some hidden images in the background.

Found in "Building The Nation" by Charles Carelton Coffin. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1883.

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Ruddy

Card #16 from the Arm & Hammer "Game Bird Series" dated 1904. This is Ruddy Duck.

Found in "By England's Aid" by G.A. Henty. Published by Hurst and Co., no date.


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Best Results

1924 calendar advertisement card from Socony Gasoline / Standard Oil.

Found in "Jim Waring of Sonora-Town" by Henry Herbert Knibbs. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1918.

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Greatest Discovery Of The Age

Amusing advertisement for "Force's Roach Exterminator."

Found in "Backgrounds of American Literary Thought" by Rod Hudson and Herbert Edwards. Published by Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952.

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IHOP

Vintage paper coaster from The International House of Pancakes.

Found in "Unseen Life in New York" by William Beebe. Published by Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1953.

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Down To Business

Trade card advertising J.R. Mitchell and Son Dry Goods of Bristol, CT.

Found in "A First Book of Business Methods" by William Teller and Henry Brown. Published by Rand McNally, 1916.


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Dedicated

Vintage ink blotter advertising Iodalbin.

Found in "Sleepy Steve" by Josef Berger. Published by Minton, Balch and Co., 1931.

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LaRue

Ink blotter advertising LaRue Cleaners of Binghamton NY.

Found in "Selected Astrological Lectures, Lessons, Writings" by Sylvia DeLong. Published by the author, 1976.

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