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Title: "All-Rail Coal. Bacon Company, Wholesale and Retail Coal Dealers
Description: Address of main office and yards. Telephone, 1000 Bushwick and Flatbush Yard, 534 Flatbush.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0220

Title: "Hunter's Invisible."
Description: Illustration of roses and butterfly. Text,"Hunter's Invisible, trade mark pure quince, bandoline powder, 10 cts per packet. Makes half a pint of elegant bandoline. Beware of imitations."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0143

Title: "Hunter's Invisible."
Description: Text,"The blemishes of nature hidden by the witchery of art!"Hunter's Invisible. The best beautifying cosmetic in existence! Prepared from R. M. Hunter's Original Formula."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0143

Title: "Lay on MACDUFF. A.C. Flatley, Fine Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Bedding,&c. Stoves Clocks
Description: Illustration of an interior of a restaurant in which man in rough clothing is eating a turkey leg and telling a waiter who brings a tray of food,"Lay on Macduff. A sign in the background reads Macduffs Free Lunch Every Day.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0006

Title: "The Flag that Waved a 100 Years"
Description: Illustration of woman's portrait surrounded by wreath of leaves and by American flags. In the background is a ship on water. 1776 is on the left side of the illustration and 1876 is on the right side of the illustration.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0169

Title: "Two Butt'n Kids," 79 Cents per Pair
Description: Illustration of two young goats butting heads while adult goat watches in background. Verso side: text, "Porter & Thorburn, dry goods, mourning goods, hosiery, black silks, linens, laces, embroideries, gloves."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0101

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 Good Bite. Buy Your Clothing of Smith Pressinger.
Description: Illustration of man by river with fishing rod being attacked by dog. Dog is biting man's pants. A sign on the tree states no trespassing allowed and a policeman is in the background running towards the scene. A fish is on the fishing rod line. Verso side: text,"Look at our prices: men's pants 85c.$1.00, 1.25, 1.50 and 2.00. Men's suits,$7.00. Boy's suits $4.00. Boy's pants 75c.$1.00 and $1.25.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0173

Title: A Happy New Year
Description: A card with text "Happy New Year" surrounded by flowers. Verso side:"Fancy goods, toys, dolls, vases, toilet seats, gold and plated jewelry, Roger's Bros. triple-plated silver ware, bird cages, clocks, albums, leather satchels and bags from 99c up."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0014

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 Pair of Topers
Description: Illustration of a goblet or water glass or wine glass. Verso side: text, Staple and fancy dry goods. Holiday presents in great variety."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0102

Title: A Prosperous New Year to You
Description: Illustration of lily of the valley and violets Verso side: text,"For Perfection in fit, excellence in style, durability and moderate cost, Morrows Fine Shoes are pre-eminent. Ladies, buy them."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0137

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: A.C. Flatley, Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Bedding,&c.
Description: An illustration of a young man dressed in finery with flowers, hat off, letter in hand, and a dog. Verso side: stamped with "A.C. Flatley. Furniture. Carpets, Oil Cloths, Bedding &c. 484 Fulton St. Brooklyn."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0005

Title: A.D. Matthews Sons
Description: Illustration of flowers surrounding card with name and address.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0104

Title: A.H. King, Carpets
Description: Illustration of child dressed in hat and costume playing lute sitting on ledge of stairway with column and possibly a lake in background. Gold background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0074

Title: A.J. Nutting Co.
Description: Shape of card and illustration of artist's palette with blobs of paint. On palette is illustration of girl in ballerina costume taking a bow possibly on a stage. There are flowers on the ground next to her. Verso side: text,"We are Brooklyn's recognized leaders in mens, youths, and boys clothing and offer unusual advantages in our balcony custom dept.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0226

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: 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: Adam Hat Stores, Inc.
Description: Illustration of small coat of arms in upper left corner. Text,"Cumberland 6-8110" and name and address of company and name of manager. Verso side: Annotation in ink of payment received for one hat and signature of Jack Blume.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0105

Title: America
Description: "Furniture. Carpets. Illustration of farm. Man is working in cornfield in foreground, woman hanging clothes on line next to house, cows and chickens on path, mountains in background. Verso side:"Homes furnished throughout in plain or grand style, with everything neat in the housekeeping line, to furnish each room in your home so complete."Discount to Comrades of C.A.R. and Brothers R.A."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0012

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: Autumn. Compliments of M. Shulz Bro. Dealers in Furniture, Carpets &c.
Description: Illustration of man in horse-drawn wagon riding through fall landscape. Leaves on trees have changed colors and the sky is possibly a sunset. A sailboat is on a lake in the background. Verso side: text,"M. Schulz Bro. The most reliable house in the trade to buy furniture, carpets,&c. All the latest styles of parlor and chamber suits constantly on hand.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0134

Title: B. Brush New Ferrotype Gallery.
Description: Photograph of unidentified man.(grayscale with touch of color on cheeks) Ferrotype within gold frame. Verso side: Text,"B. Brush New Ferrotype Gallery. 115 Fulton Avenue, between Bridge and Duffield Streets, over Thompson's Piano Warehouse. Satisfaction guaranteed."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, tin types, photographs
Local Identifier: FC-0031

Title: B. Vehrlen, Ladies' Hair Dressing and All Kinds of Human Hair Goods
Description: Illustration of a woman's hand holding a lily and other flowers. Verso side: text,"Ladies' own combings made up by the new method, roots all one way. Faded hair switches altered to any color."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0189

Title: B.F. Troxell, Photographer
Description: Photograph of well dressed young girl.(sepia) Verso side: name and address of photographer.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0200

Title: Barrell Tresham, Electrical Contractors
Description: Text,"Wiring for electrical lighting. Electric gas lighting. Dynamos and motors. Burglar alarms. Annunciators. Gas and electric fixtures. Telephone lines constructed and equipped with instruments. Out-of-town work attended to promptly."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0221

Title: Both Puzzled
Description: Illustration of interior of schoolroom. A boy student is talking with his male teacher. No other students are in the room. Verso side: text,"Buy the Hope Safety Oil, no smoke, no smell. Put up expressly for family use and especially adapted to student lamps..Orders by postal card promptly attended to. Lamps, chandeliers, brackets, chimneys, trimmings &c."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements, irregular shape
Local Identifier: FC-0194

Title: Brooklyn Advertising Agency, Authorized Agency for all Leading Newspapers
Description: Text, Authorized agency for all leading newspapers, German advertising a specialty, translation free of charge. Verso side: annotations in ink,"Latham Death Notice. 2 times World $2.50, 2 times [Herald?$3.60, 2 times Sun $2.00, 2 times Eagle $2.00. Stamped with received payment notice.
Type: still image
Genre: receipts, trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0103

Title: Brooklyn Crockery Co.
Description: Illustration of female child in dress and flower shaped hood and holding a leaf She looks as if she were inside a lily. Text,"The cheapest crockery store in the city. Don't fail to examine our stock."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0175

Title: Brooklyn Daily Times
Description: Text,"Brooklyn Daily Times, 457 Fulton Street. B. Levy."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0122

Title: Brooklyn Heights Roller Skating Rink
Description: Illustration of two dogs that have possibly chewed on a hat with feathers.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0017

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: Buy the Universal Wringer
Description: Illustration of a female at easel painting with male with umbrella looking over her shoulder and holding umbrella possibly at the beach. Verso side: Illustration of the Universal Wringer. Text,"Rolls of solid white rubber. Rowell's double cog-wheels..William Wallis, house furnishing goods, stoves, ranges, furnaces,&c. crockery glass ware, tin roofing, galvanized iron cornices.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0039

Title: C. Riesterer, Fine Boots and Shoes
Description: Illustration of flower arrangement in elegant shoe.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0213

Title: C. Wm. Stentzel Son, Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and Silverware, Watchmakers and Manufacturing Jewelers
Description: Text,"Telephone connection. Fine watch repairing and re-mounting of diamonds a specialty."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0038

Title: C.A. Warner Co. The Burr Folding Bed
Description: Illustration of rose and card with text,"C.A. Warner Co. The Burr Folding Bed, Warerooms, 33 W. 14th St. bet. 5th and 6th Aves. Branch Store, 534 Fulton St. Brooklyn."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0149

Title: C.A. Warner Co. The Burr Folding Bed
Description: Illustration of two roses and card with text,"C.A. Warner Co. The Burr Folding Bed, Warerooms, 33 W. 14th St. bet. 5th and 6th Aves. Branch Store, 534 Fulton St. Brooklyn."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0148

Title: Call and Examine Archer's Champion Refrigerators
Description: Illustration of flower and butterfly in front of sign with name and address of company. Verso side: text,"Something worth knowing. The past year we have ground and repaired the following: scissors, pairs..carvers..knives..skates, pairs..pen knives..chopping knives..razors..saws..scrappers..mower blades..chisels..axes and hatchets.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0219

Title: Carroll's Book Store, Old Rare Curious Books
Description: Item is possibly a clipping of an ad. Text,"Carroll's Book Store, Old Rare Curious Books, Fulton Pearl Sts, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0188

Title: Chas. A. H. Neidhardt, Jeweler
Description: Illustration of three children on rocks at lake. A boy in the foreground is holding a fishing rod and has caught a fish. Trees and rocks in background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0207

Title: Chas. M. Jacobson, Hats Umbrellas, Canes,&c.
Description: Illustration of children dressed in festive clothing. Gold background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0114

Title: Chas. M. Jacobson, Manufacturer of Hats, Caps Straw Goods
Description: Illustration of a female child walking with a male child in wheat [or straw field. Male child is carrying sickle. Another child is in the tall vegetation watching the two other children. Verso side: text,"Chas. M. Jacobson, Manufacturer of Hats, Caps Straw Goods.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0118

Title: Children's Clothing
Description: Illustration of female child wearing elegant dress and feeding birds.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0176

Title: Christmas Cards, American and Imported Gems, Prang's Cards fringed, 10 cents and upward.
Description: Illustration of farm scene, illustration of windmill, and text.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0009

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: Clear the Track!
Description: Illustration of a winter scene of people on sled sliding down snow covered hill. A dog runs alongside of the sled. Verso side: text,"Special sale of Shetland shawls. Ladies knit jackets, from 50 cents to $2.00. Beautiful children's hoods, all colors, from 50 cents to $2.00. Ulsters and sacques, all sizes at low prices. Choice selection of in Merino cloaks.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0099

Title: Clothing for Men, Boys Children.
Description: Illustration of flower arrangement in vase. Verso side: please note that part of text is worn away and unreadable. Text,.the rich while we give credit to all respectable working people."Every article sold is guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. Come see and be convinced.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0048

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