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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: 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: A. Jouffroy Co. Successors to Benton Co. Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Fancy Groceries, including best Teas, Coffees, Sugars, Canned Goods, Fruits,&c.
Description: Flower wreath around scene of sailboat on water [lake] with house in background. Another boat in foreground.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0004

Title: A. Walton, Choice Fruits
Description: Illustration of crocus flower and winter holly framing winter scene of houses and road covered with snow. Printer's title of card is Winter.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0136

Title: Adam Craig, Fancy Grocer and Wine Merchant
Description: Illustration of nude child sitting on water lily pad and using branch and row paddle. Gold background. Verso side: text,"Adam Craig, fancy grocer and wine merchant, butter, cheese, tea, flour, etc."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0186

Title: Andruss Welcome, Grocers
Description: A group flowers with name on card.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0002

Title: Buy the Celebrated "Butterfly Chop"
Description: Illustration of a rose and a flower wreath around text,"Buy the Celebrated "Butterfly Chop, The Best Tea! The Cheapest! The Only Genuine! Sold at the Columbia Tea Coffee Store."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0160

Title: Buy the Celebrated "Butterfly Chop"
Description: Text,"The Columbia Tea Coffee Store, Campbell and Creighton, coffee roasters, importers and [jobbers] of teas, wholesale and retail grocers."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0160

Title: Clapp Brothers, Grocers, and Dealers in Fine Wine for Medical Use
Description: Illustration of three figures [children or family? in winter walking in snow towards a church at night with a full moon. Snow covered tree next to a sign with name and address. Silver background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0214

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: Fulton Butter Mart, Fines Butter, Richest Cheese, and Freshest Eggs
Description: Man with glasses, pipe, and quill pen behind ear looking at an owl. Name and address of store. Verso side: annotations.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0230

Title: H. Fenn, Dealer in Butter, Cheese, Eggs Etc.
Description: Illustration of man and woman in row boat on lake and a house in background. The man is leaning against the paddle and appears close to falling in.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0187

Title: Happy Home
Description: Illustration of man pulling woman's hair and holding a stick up as if to beat her. Framed portrait on wall in background. Verso side: text,"John Boemermann, Dealer in choice groceries. Teas, coffees, sugars,&c. Flour of the best brands."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0223

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: Imbeciles!
Description: Four male children wearing band outfits and carrying musical instruments. One boy has possibly kicked another boy as three other boys watch. Gold background. Verso side: text,"Champion Baking Powder. Absolutely pure, strongest healthiest and best on the market. Contains the greatest amount of leavening power of any baking powder in America."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0172

Title: J. Stern, Meat, Poultry and Vegetable Market
Description: Illustration of roses surrounding a card with name and address of market.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0206

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: 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: No more "Salt Junk, for the Navies of the World Now Use Libby McNeill Libby's Cooked Corned Beef
Description: Illustration of sailors on ship gathered in a circle eating [canned meat] and cheering. A family of man, woman and child look overboard at ocean. A couple is walking off to the left. Boxes and barrels are in the foreground. Verso side: text,"Libby McNeill Libby's Cooked Meats. Economical delicious for sale by Lewis Percival (late with Park Tilford. Grocers, wines and imported segars [cigars]."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0164

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: Popular Crackers, Children Cry for Them. Compliments of Hetfield and Ducker.
Description: Illustration of African-American man holding a cracker and a cornucopia. Crackers are pouring out of the cornucopia and children running to it. Child in crib also crying out towards crackers.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0057

Title: R. Lippman, General Grocer
Description: Illustration of flowers in a vase. Text,"The finest teas and coffees uptown."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0235

Title: Redhead's Baking Powder, "Little Redhead" Acknowledges No Superior in the World."
Description: Illustration of red haired woman wearing hat with red bow and flowers and wearing glasses. The logo over her head reads Redhead's Baking Powder. Verso side, text, "Reasons why Redhead's Baking Powder is superior to all others. It is always uniform in strength.." Testimonials from Chas H. Shepard. M.D. and J.H. Hobart Burge M.D.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0034

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: The World Contributes and Walton Distributes, All the Luxuries of the Season.
Description: Illustration of a dog with front legs over a basket looking at a white bird [dove? who is standing on branches and looking back at dog. A branch of flowers is coming out of basket.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0135

Title: [Receipt for purchase of flour.]
Description: Receipt of purchase. Stamped with "Paid. Text "M Bought of Jewell Bro's, Flour Manufacturers. Barrel Nassau. Handwritten,"200 [lbs. M.$3.50"
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, receipts, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0020

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