Trade Card for White Sewing Machine Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. According to authors, Dan Ruminski and Alan Dutka (Cleveland in the Gilded Age), Thomas H. White began making sewing machines in Phillipston, Massachusetts. He moved his company to Cleveland, Ohio…Read More…
Category: Trade Cards and Advertising
Austen’s Forest Flower Cologne Trade Card
Someone had evidently cropped and saved this trade card just for the charming girl in the straw hat drawing. At the time of posting this entry, the whole card comes up for sale on eBay, and that one shows that…Read More…
Columba Margerine Trade Card
Belgian Dutch trade card advertising Columba margerine. Columba vervangt boter translates as “Columba replaces butter.” Front shows a drawing with a caption in french, “Chasseur de la Garde-Grenadier Napoléon, 1810.” The term chasseur translates as “hunter” and grenadier refers to a…Read More…
B. J. Stone Trade Card, New Haven, CT
Trade card, circa 1882 – 1883. Printed by Donaldson Bros., Five Points, New York. Price: $10.00 Size: About 4 and 1/2 x 3″ “Celluloid Waterproof Collars, Cuffs and Shirt Bosoms for sale by B. J. Stone, 352 Chapel cor. of…Read More…
Academy of Music Chicago Trade Card
A charming drawing of a rosy-cheeked girl wearing what seems to be a handkerchief for a head-covering. Published by the Sunshine Publishing Company of Philadelphia. The flip side shows that this is sort of a playbill type of trade card…Read More…
Foster’s Molasses Candy Trade Card
Victorian Era trade card Price: $15.00 Size: 2 and 5/8 x 4 and 1/16″ Foster’s Un-X-Ld Old Fashioned Molasses Candy. Made Daily at 244 Essex St., Salem, Mass. Nothing has been found online so far regarding this company. Perhaps a…Read More…
Gilmore Blu-Green Gasoline Trade Card
Not being raised on the West Coast, and not being a collector of petroliana, I had never heard of Gilmore Oil until researching this trade card, (or possibly had but hadn’t payed enough attention) but have since discovered a lot…Read More…
Chapman & Smith Company, Chicago, Illinois
Advertisement for Chapman & Smith Co., Chicago, Illinois. Circa 1878 – 1890s. Price: $15.00 Size: 6 x 5 and 7/8″ This is something someone must have cut out of a newspaper, magazine, maybe a city directory or maybe even the…Read More…
Princess Louise
Nellie H. Bonney trade card showing a beautiful print of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Miss Bonney can be found in various Haverhill, Massachusetts city directories and also on the 1880 Federal Census taken in Haverhill,…Read More…