Franklin Exchange / William Rogers
One line of text on the back reads: "Pure liquors for medicinal purposes"
View ArticleE. D. Evans
This photographer's photomontage type construction incorporates some 160 different images.
View ArticleH. M. Bush
An unusual stock image of a ships-in-storm painting, with a black area left for printing an advertiser's information. Blank back.
View ArticleAmerican Exhibition Company / Electric Stereopticon
Extraordinary image (either a painting or a heavily retouched photograph) of an outdoor projected image. The back has text which includes "LARGEST AND FINEST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD AT NINTH AND...
View ArticleEmpire City Skating Rink
Back has extensive text about the "LARGEST RINK IN THE WORLD" in New York City, including lists of trustees and officers. Photographer was Rockwood.
View ArticleE. Murphy
Photograph of a folk art painting of Binghamton, NY adapted into an advertising card for Murphy. There seems to be some other albumen image underneath.
View ArticleCharles A. Tenney
Trade card. This one is unusual in a couple ways. It is a stock card intended specifically for portrait photographers, copyrighted in 1883 by George M.Hayes. Photographer Charles A. Tenney of Winona,...
View ArticleHenry A. Hubbard
Unusually elaborate card to commemorate a boy's 21st birthday, with his photostamp affixed.
View ArticleOak Run School
Card presented to a pupil, 1895-96. Oak Run School was in Muncy Township, Pennsylvania. The back of the card lists the superintendent, the directors, the teacher, and the 41 students.
View ArticleJohn Hanscom
Trade card, tintype portrait attached by label of photographer B. F. Cole ( Collection of George K. Fox )
View ArticleEphesus Hotel / J. D. Carpouza
Promotional piece for a hotel in Turkey, with a photo-stamp picture of the proprietor and a Turkish tax stamp
View ArticleH. H. Whiteaker
Business card for a photographer who promoted his use of the "Genelli Patent" process
View ArticleGertrude Sagrera
Not ad ad card, but a page from an autograph or memory book, ca. 1910-15, from Abbeville, Louisiana. The text mentions "Normal Hill", which may refer to Normal State College in Natchitoches, LA,...
View ArticleNellie Williams
Gem tintype advertising card. This card is interesting for several reasons. For one thing, gem tintype advertising cards of any kind are highly unusual. During the Civil War, "Little Nellie Williams"...
View ArticleF. G. Smith / Bradbury Pianos
Diecut trade card. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, Pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, is pictured and gives a testimonial saying—among other things—that "the maker "is a Methodist, but his Bradbury pianos are...
View ArticleSoldier's Novelty Photo Postcard, 1944
Postcard from a Corporal A. Harvey Schreter to his wife in Baltimore
View ArticleThe Campbell Press Company
Advertising card which combines artwork, cartooning and real photos heads stripped in. "The Campbell's (sic) are coming!" apparently to St. Louis. One man holds up a card saying "Our 8,000th Press."...
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