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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

Title: [Envelope containing prescription] Walter A. Aspinall, Prescription Pharmacist
Description: Text on envelope containing sample of unidentified prescription,"One at night in glass hot milk. Dr. Brooks. Verso side: annotations.
Type: still image
Genre: envelopes, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0222

Title: Zacharie's Perfumery Store
Description: Illustration of Lily of the Valley flowers. Verso side: text,"We manufacture all of the following articles, and recommend them to our customers: Italian hair tonic."A full assortment of toilet articles and preparations."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0085

Title: You are respectfully invited to attend our fall exhibition.
Description: Illustration of an interior of very fine sitting room. A dog sits by an elaborate fire place. An easel with portrait, fine chairs, rugs and curtains as well as vases are shown. Verso side: A very small illustration of a pinned card with scene of birds is in the upper left corner. Below is text,"You are respectfully invited to attend our fall exhibition on Monday Oct. 9th, Tuesday October 10th Wednesday Oct. 11th."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0059

Title: Wm. S. Carlisle, Wholesale and Retail Tea Dealer General Grocer
Description: Illustration of a woman hanging an ornament on a Christmas tree. A child in the background watches. Toys are spread on a table under the tree. Verso side: text Text,"Genuine teas only, genuine coffees only, standard sugars, strickly pure spices. Foreign and domestic dried fruits, in their season, pickles, sauces,&c.&c."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0010

Title: Wm. H. Payne, Bird Cage Bazaar
Description: Illustration of a bird sitting on a violet or pansy flower. A butterfly flies by. Text,"Bird seed and food of all kinds, gold and other fishes."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0087

Title: With Compliments of the Hill Hat Emporium
Description: Illustration of Asian man with fan balancing on trapeze or flag pole and bamboo in background and abstract design.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0204

Title: What's the Matter with that ere' Dog? Buy Your Clothing of Smith Pressinger.
Description: Illustration of a man sitting watching a dog run off into the background. Behind the man sits a large bear holding a rifle. The bears asks the man,"What's the Matter with that ere' Dog? 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-0174

Title: Warr's Fancy Goods Store
Description: Boy carrying girl on his back over stream and stepping on rocks. Verso side: text,"A large assortment of holiday goods, dolls, toys, fancy goods, silver ware, and jewelry, also fine line of albums, from 50 cents upward. Autograph and scrap books from 5 cents to $5,&c.&c.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0232

Title: W.W. Swayne, Bookseller and Stationer.
Description: Illustration of flowers surrounding card with text. Black background. Verso side: calendar of 1882. Text,"All new books received as soon as issued and sold from 20 to 25 per cent less than publisher's prices. Fine assortment of stationery, blank books, etc. at greatly reduced prices."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0056

Title: W.R. Wasson, Photographer
Description: Photograph of unidentified elderly woman.(color in tones of sepia) Verso side: text,"Small pictures enlarged to any size, and colored in water or oil. Duplicates of this picture can be had at any time."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0033

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: Uriah Pearce, Late of the Little Barefoot Shoe Store, Dealer in Boots and Shoes
Description: Text,"Uriah Pearce, Late of the Little Barefoot Shoe Store, Dealer in Boots and Shoes."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0177

Title: Turnbull's hats are the best. Dentist. Don't move something's got to come out this time.
Description: Illustration of a dentist pulling a tooth out of a patient's mouth. Two men are in strange position.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0016

Title: Turnbull's hats are the best!
Description: Illustration of two dogs tugging on a hat in the middle of the street. A cat is on the sidewalk watching Text,"Wanted! A New Hat."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0022

Title: Turnbull's hats are the best
Description: Illustration of caricature of an African American man with his head coming through a sheet of paper. Body and hands are not in proportion with head.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0015

Title: Turnbull the Enterprising Hatter, Best Under the Sun
Description: Text,"Turnbull the Enterprising Hatter, Best Under the Sun.Corner of York and Fulton Sts. in the basement."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0244

Title: Tra-La-La-La, John. W. Heaney's New Hat Store.
Description: Illustration of a boot kicking the rear of a man leaving through a door.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0041

Title: Thorburn, Late, Porter Thorburn, Dry Goods
Description: Illustration of side profile of child wearing hat and vest.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0115

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: The Seven Wonders of the World. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. C. Riesterer, Fancy Boots and Shoes
Description: Illustration of exotic scene with sphinx at stairs leading up to building structure which is terraced with gardens. Palms and other trees in foreground. Verso side: text,"Established 1859. Having refitted up my store, I am prepared to serve my customers..P. Cox, Boy's Youths, Hanan Reddich Men's, J. T.Consin's Ladies Misses. Special attention given to custom work.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0210

Title: The Paris Hats are Here
Description: Illustration of portrait of three woman talking together intently. Women are carrying fruit basket, flowers, holly and possibly grocery basket. Women are dressed differently. Two are wearing hats and one is wearing jacket with a fur trimmed hood.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0080

Title: The Halt. John Wood, Furniture Warehouse.
Description: Illustration of woman on horse come to a stop near a woman standing with horse while horse drinks water from a trough. Women are in formal attire including hats. Shrubs and rocks to the right and figures in background.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0040

Title: The Grand Central Hat and Straw Goods Emporium
Description: Illustration of roses. Text,"Children's goods a specialty."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0180

Title: The Cheapest Shoe Store in the City for Price and Quality!
Description: Illustration of child with whip in hand riding in shoe which is on top of a platform on wheels being led by dogs.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0058

Title: The Burr Folding Bed
Description: Shape and illustration of artist's palette. Image of paint and woman's [or girl's] portrait on palette.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, irregular shape, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0147

Title: The Broadway Tailor, Latest Novelties for Fall and Winter
Description: Illustration of man playing lute or other stringed instrument. He appears to be walking on a vase or container. Vase with flower and illustration of woman in dress in background. There is also a border with a clover design.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0154

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: 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: Taylor Co. Ferrotypes
Description: Text within a frame,"All sizes of ferrotypes taken and finished in 10 minutes."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0036

Title: Take Lunch with Us in Our New Cafe Lunch Room
Description: An illustration of a small African-American woman or child in hat carrying infant. Verso side: an illustration showing interior of restaurant.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0001

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: Solution of Citrate of Magnesia
Description: Illustration of Solution of Citrate of Magnesia logo in clouds with sunbeams. Text,"The contents of this bottle is a full purgative dose."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0234

Title: Smith, Photographer
Description: Text,"Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged to any size. Daguerreotypes cleaned and restored."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0019

Title: Smith Pressinger's "Phantoms"
Description: Illustration in black (negative image) of a man with tiny star under his star. Text, "Look intently at the little star in the center..you will see the likeness of General Grant." Verso side, text, "A genuine surprise to all who have not before patronized Smith Pressinger, the Long Island Clothiers, is the low prices at which the sell choice styles of men's and boy's clothing."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0167

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: Scott Porter, Successors to Richter Trowbridge, Stationers, Printers and Manufacturers
Description: Text,"Scott Porter, Successors to Richter Trowbridge, Stationers, Printers and Manufacturers."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0018

Title: Schneider's Shoe Stores, Shoes for the Entire Family
Description: Illustration of ankle boot.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0208

Title: Saturday
Description: Illustration of bouquet of flowers. Verso side: text,"Every Saturday we put up a special 50c. Box called "Saturday" containing selected samples of finest cream bon-bons, guaranteed fresh and absolutely unadulterated.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0119

Title: Samuel A. Byers, Dealer in Fine Boots and Shoes
Description: Illustration of a rose, lily of the valley and a butterfly.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0139

Title: S.A. Byers, Fine Boots Shoes, Elegant Slippers for the Holidays.
Description: Illustration of winter scene. Within a circle is a close-up of Santa Claus and a fireplace with stockings. In the background is a snow covered roof, a bare tree and the silhouette of a house. Holly frames close-up of Santa Claus.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0145

Title: S. Leopold Toys Baby Carriages.
Description: Illustration of baby carriage in upper right side on top of illustration of flowers surrounding a card with address of S. Leopold.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0071

Title: S. Leopold Toys Baby Carriages.
Description: Illustration of baby carriage in upper right side on top of illustration of flowers surrounding a card with address of S. Leopold.
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0070

Title: S. Downing, Dry Goods
Description: Illustration of woman in hooded dress or shirt. Gold background. Verso side: text,"S. Downing, dry goods, fancy goods, hosiery, notions, trimmings ribbon."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0142

Title: S. Bierach, Fine Stationer, Dealer in Sheet Music, Music Books, Musical Instruments,&c.
Description: Illustration of two children: boy and girl. The boy is blowing bubbles. Text,"S. Bierach, Fine Stationer, Dealer in Sheet Music, Music Books, Musical Instruments,&c. B and B Bazar..Pianos tuned and repaired."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0197

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: 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: 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: Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford Connecticut
Description: Text, Capital $600,000 charter perpetual. Cash assets, Jan. 1, 1867,$1,103,476,85."J.A.S. Simonson, Ag't. Verso side: Text,"Assets of the "Phoenix, Jan. 1, 1867. Cash on hand in agent's hands,$178,895.93. United States Securities, 142,860.00.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0089

Title: Perfumed with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne
Description: Illustration of two women in elegant dresses holding bouquets of roses. Verso side: text,"The Fair. Frank Co. Proprietors, dealers in house furnishing goods, crockery, glassware, stationery, jewelry, silverware, leather goods,&c. our specialty 5 and 10 cent goods.."
Type: still image
Genre: trade cards, business cards, advertisements
Local Identifier: FC-0157

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