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Title: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Henry Tamke
Description: Shape of card and illustration of artist's palette with blobs of paint. On palette is illustration of child sitting on rock looking closely at a leaf through a magnifying glass Verso side: text,"Henry Tamke, Fine, Cheap Cash Groceries. Imported wines,&c. for family and medical use. Choice teas and coffees a specialty."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, irregular shape, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0237

Title: G.W. E. Bennett, Shirt makers and Men's Furnishers
Description: Illustration of woman on beach turned away from sailor who may be missing a hand and may be trying to talk to her. A cupid is seated and wiping his face with a handkerchief. He has wings and a basket of arrows. An ocean is in the background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0095

Title: A.W. Sheppard, Photographic Artist.
Description: Photograph of unidentified young man in black and white and cheeks tinted pink. Verso side: Text,"Ferrotypes, photographs, cartes de visite, and imperial vignettes."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, tin types, photographs
Local Identifier: FC-0044

Title: Compliments of James Duckworth Son's Inimitable Confections
Description: Fan shape card. Illustration of fashionable woman holding fan and reclining in flowering tree. Verso side: fan shape card. Text,"Visit Duckworth's when shopping for a glass of their famous ice cream soda water."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, irregular shape, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0078

Title: Miss Lee Fuller, Men's Furnishing Goods
Description: Illustration of ship on water with light house and full moon in background. Verso side: text,"Miss Lee Fuller, Men's Furnishing Goods. Order's filled promptly. Reliable goods. Low figures."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0199

Title: The Babies Cry when You Fail to Buy of the Brooklyn Furniture Co.
Description: Illustration of baby in hat crying. Text,"The Babies Cry when You Fail to Buy of the Brooklyn Furniture Co. Verso side: illustration of a baby smiling. Text,"Buy at the Brooklyn Furniture Co. and make the Children Happy."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0166

Title: Crandall, The Child's Benefactor
Description: Illustration female child scattering feed to chickens that she is holding in her dress or apron. A farm is in the background. Verso side: text,$250 Reward! Will be paid to any person who will inform Crandall, the Child's Benefactor, who it is that is representing his name on the street. Crandall's only place of business is at the corner of Fulton and Pierrepont Streets."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0093

Title: Misfit Parlors
Description: Illustration of elegantly dressed man and woman standing near body of water. Woman is holding a parasol. Verso side: text, "What are Misfits? They are the custom made clothing of merchant tailors left on their hands for one reason or another; these we buy in large or small quantities for the ready cash.."
Type: still image
Local Identifier: FC-0231

Title: A Birthday Gift, Campbell Creighton
Description: Illustration of single pink rose. Verso side: Text,"No Christmas table complete without Campbell Creighton's celebrated "number one" java coffee. Best coffee on the globe, 25cts per pound.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0165

Title: Oliver Johnston, Grocer
Description: Illustration of child in highchair pouring himself or herself a drink from a glass decanter. Gold background. Verso side: text,"Goods sold for cash only. Oliver Johnston, wholesale and retail grocer and tea dealer. Agent for Commins Allen's Flour.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0168

Title: Mundell's. Established in 1823.
Description: Illustration of female child watching male child leaning on rock and either drawing or reading. Rock is surrounded by long grass. Verso side: text,"We have on hand a large stock of boots and shoes at all prices."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0076

Title: Edwin C. Burt, Fine Shoes.
Description: Illustration of blue gold scene of Asian woman leaning out of window. A child is blowing a horn and a pheasant or similar bird is near him. Verso side: Text,"Caution. Please note: genuine good of Edwin C. Burt's make have his name stamped in full on lining and sole of each shoe and are warranted. Illustration of centennial coins ].
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0069

Title: Fine Shoes
Description: Illustration of young woman descending down stairs. Young man holding hands with woman helping her down stairs and bouquet of flowers. Both in elegant clothing and hats. Verso side:"Fine Shoes..Goods warranted as represented."
Type: still image

Title: Use the White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer
Description: Illustration of portrait of young woman. Verso side: illustration of hand crank ice cream maker. Text,"The patent triple motion White Mountain Freezer. The leading ice-cream freezer price-list (White Mountain Hand Freezer, with Crank)."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0126

Title: See Wheeler Wilson's New Automatic No. 8 Machine
Description: Illustration of child who has fallen off of a wooden board that may have been balanced on a wooden barrel. A cat is fleeing the scene. A hat has fallen off of the child and a water canister is nearby. A house is in the background. Verso side: text,"Do not fail to see the recently improved automatic new no. 8 machine. Buy a standard article from a reliable company. Buy from a company that has been established for years."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0082

Title: Teale Morro, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Every Description of Goodyear's Rubber Goods
Description: Illustration of snow covered landscape with sheep in foreground and houses and windmill in background. Verso side: text,"Teale Morro, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Every Description of Goodyear's Rubber Goods.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0183

Title: Staten Island, Fancy Dyeing Establishment, Office, 5 7 John Street, New York.
Description: Illustration of deer and fauna surrounding card with name and address of office and branch offices. Gold background. Verso side: List of branch offices in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Text,"Dye, clean, and refinish all kinds of ladies' dresses, shawls, velvets, cloaks,&c.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0063

Title: Jas. W. Hamblet, Teas, Coffees, Etc.
Description: Illustration of blue flowers on square pattern. Verso side: Text,"Facts worth knowing..you can purchase Hamblet's extra choice teas for 35 cents per pound..which we guarantee superior to any tea sold elsewhere for 50c per pound, or money cheerfully refunded."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0037

Title: Dana Portraits
Description: Text,"Dana Portraits, new observatory studio: 1183 B'way Cor. 28th St. Verso side: text,"Preserve this if you want duplicates of your photos. The number of your negative is.."
Type: still image
Local Identifier: FC-0161

Title: The Alden Fruit Vinegar, Absolutely Pure, Uniform in Strength, Always Keeps Pickles
Description: Fan shape card. Illustration of little girl in hat sitting on fence with flower in her hand. Verso side:Text, he Alden Fruit Vinegar, Absolutely Pure, Uniform in Strength, Always Keeps Pickles.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, irregular shape
Local Identifier: FC-0025

Title: J.V. Dubernell, Tailor.
Description: Illustration of winter scene with three children ice skating. A female child is surrounded by a male child on each side skating. A dog is also on the ice near a barren tree. A thermometer shows the weather is cold. Verso side: text,"Largest stock, newest styles, lowest prices of any tailor in Brooklyn. Pants from $6.00 to $15.00. Suitings from $25.00 to $60.00."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0096

Title: I am soulfully intense.
Description: Illustration of woman in blue dress and below her is a sun and flowers growing upward Text,"I am soulfully intense."Use the Alden Fruit Vinegar. Verso side: text,"Valentine, Bergen Co. Wholesale Grocers."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0021

Title: From the Columbia Tea Coffee Store
Description: Card is in the shape of and illustrated as an artist's palette with blobs of paint and a man in a tuxedo putting on white gloves in front of a mirror. Verso side: text,"From the Columbia Tea Coffee Store..Campbell Creighton, Teas Coffees, Strictly Pure."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0158

Title: Johnston Brothers, Brooklyn's Popular Grocers, Sole Agents for Commins Allens "Akron, Ohio" Pastry and Family Flour
Description: Illustration of boy ice skating. A dog runs behind him and a house is in the background. Verso side: text,.Sole Agents for Commins Allens "Akron, Ohio" pastry and family flour. Has no competition because it has no equal."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0170

Title: Compliments of Nicoll the Tailor
Description: Illustration of man on row boat or kayak surrounded by ducks in a lake. Two men with fishing rods are standing on a pier and one is yelling to the man in the boat. Verso side: text,"Spring and Summer styles now ready. The finest assortment of domestic and imported cassimeres, doeskins, cloths and diagonals in the market. Pants to order from $4.00."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0128

Title: Typewritten statement concerning nominaton of John B. Johnston
Description: Four page typescript detailing John B. Johnston's political career, legal activities and platform.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst011

Title: Mock theater stub endorsing John P. Cohalan (blue)
Description: The front side of this blue 3"x1" mock theater ticket stub urges voters to endorse re-election of Surrogate John P. Cohalan. The back tells voters that he is on the Independent Ticket and to "ask your friends to help."
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win042

Title: Response card for Judge Edgar M. Doughty
Description: Response card for Judge Edgar M. Doughty's campaign. Front: Address of campaign headquarters. Back: Response form.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst004

Title: Mock theater stub endorsing John P. Cohalan (pink)
Description: The front side of this pink 3"x1" mock theater ticket stub urges voters to endorse re-election of Surrogate John P. Cohalan. The back tells voters that he is on the Independent Ticket and to "ask your friends to help."
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win043

Title: Berry for state comptroller handbill
Description: This double-sided handbill asks voters to support Charles Berry, a veteran who fought in Flanders and France, as State Comptroller. Front: Photograph of Berry. Reverse: Biography of candidate.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win013

Title: 12 reasons why women should vote for Alfred E. Smith for governor
Description: Double-sided handbill for Alfred E. Smith's campaign. Front: Photograph of Alfred E. Smith. Reverse: 12 reasons why women should vote for Smith.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win003

Title: Candidates for justices of the Supreme Court
Description: Large fold-out double-sided handbill advocating five candidates for Justices of the Supreme Court. Front: Photos of Townsend Scudder, Druhan, Burt Jay Humphrey, Garvin and Edward Ward McMahon with biography of each. Reverse: Sample ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Ballots
Local Identifier: win037

Title: Nassau County lawyers organizing for John B. Johnston
Description: Freeport News article on how Democratic leaders in Nassau County are organizing the Nassau County Lawyers' Committee to boost John B. Johnston for Justice of the Supreme Court.
Type: text
Genre: Clippings
Local Identifier: johnst094

Title: Hart for surrogate
Description: Handbill that promotes Louis B. Hart for Surrogate. Hart's photograph is in the center of a large red heart on the handbill.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win035

Title: Illustration of street cleaning deputy commissioner Patrick H. Quinn
Description: Illustration of the Street Cleaning Deputy Commissioner Patrick H. Quinn, Commander of the "White Wings Army."
Type: text
Genre: Clippings, Illustrations
Local Identifier: quinn016

Title: Letter from George A. Wingate to women voters
Description: Letter from George A. Wingate to women voters detailing his concern for war widow and orphan issues.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Correspondence
Local Identifier: win069

Title: Hessberg for sheriff
Description: Handbill advising voters about the regular Democratic Candidate for Sheriff, Herman M. Hessberg. Front: Photo of Hessberg. Reverse: Short biography and pointers on how to vote.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst068

Title: Pamphlet on the high cost of living
Description: Pamphlet from Kings County Register Richardson Webster asking people to donate land for war garden use. Back: Application for Use of Land
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win091

Title: MacCrate for Supreme Court justice
Description: Double-sided handbill to vote for Republican John MacCrate for Supreme Court Justice. Front: Image and Biography. Reverse: How to mark Ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win011

Title: Mayor Jimmy Walker's opinion of John B. Johnston
Description: This two-page typescript attests to Mayor Jimmy Walker's friendship with John B. Johnston, the Democratic nominee for Supreme Court. Walker states that Johnston is a man who is an "outstanding practictioner of law."
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst061

Title: Rogers for attorney general pamphlet
Description: Pamphlet to members of the Bar of the State of N.Y. on the record and public service of Judge Erskine C. Rogers. Inside: Biography of the Republican nominee for Attorney General, Erskine C. Rogers.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Pamphlets
Local Identifier: win038

Title: Johnston speakers bureau enrollment card
Description: Card asking individuals to enroll as members of the Johnston Speakers Bureau requesting individuals' names, addresses, phone numbers, and whether or not they can supply a car.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: johnst054

Title: Gannon and Lewis for justices of the Supreme Court
Description: This double-sided handbill promotes Frank S. Gannon, Jr. and Harry E. Lewis as Justices of the Supreme Court. Front: Photo and biography of candidates. Reverse: Sample ballot with advice on voting.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win030

Title: Garvin for Supreme Court justice
Description: Double-sided handbill asking people to vote for Edwin L. Garvin for Justice of the Supreme Court. Front: Photo of Edwin L. Garvin. Reverse: Reasons why voters should choose Garvin.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win025

Title: Endorsements for five justices of the Supreme Court
Description: Double-sided handbill advocating five candidates for Justices of the Supreme Court. Front: Photos of Scudder, Druhan, Humphrey, Garvin and McMahon with biography of each. Reverse: Sample ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials, Ballots
Local Identifier: win026

Title: Higgins for state senator
Description: Handbill asks voters to choose James A. Higgins for State Senator of the sixth district. Front: Photograph with sample ballot. Back: "Say it With Votes!" proclaims the handbill.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win059

Title: McMahon for Supreme Court justice
Description: Double-sided handbill encouraging voters to choose Edward Ward McMahon, Democratic Candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court. Front: Image of Edward Ward McMahon. Reverse: Biography and sample ballot.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win031

Title: Bayes for Supreme Court
Description: Small double-sided handbill urging voters to elect William R. Bayes to the Brooklyn Supreme Court. Front: Photo and sample ballot. Back: Biography.
Type: text
Genre: Promotional materials
Local Identifier: win070

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