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Title:
Soapine : The Dirt Killer
Description:
Advertisement for Soapine: The Dirt Killer. One of twenty-six custom-made cards for Soapine in the collection. This card, like many in the collection, was designed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Card with illustration of a beached whale with caption reading: "Soapine did it." For more information, see Cheadle, Dave. SOAPINE DID IT! Englewood, CO: 2000 (16-17). See also Mac Donnell, Kevin. "Trade Cards by Charlotte Perkins Gilman." THE ADVERTISING TRADE CARD QUARTERLY: THE JOURNAL OF THE TRADE CARD
Date:
1880 - 1900
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
Soapine
Description:
Advertisement for Soapine. One of twenty-six custom-made cards for Soapine in the collection. This card, like many in the collection, was designed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Card with illustration of a carriage comprised of a globe and whale. For more information, see Cheadle, Dave. SOAPINE DID IT! Englewood, CO: 2000 (16-17). See also Mac Donnell, Kevin. "Trade Cards by Charlotte Perkins Gilman." THE ADVERTISING TRADE CARD QUARTERLY: THE JOURNAL OF THE TRADE CARD
Date:
1880 - 1900
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
Greenwald, Finest Shoes
Description:
Advertisement for Greenwald, Finest Shoes. This is one of two cards in the collection for this business. Card with illustration of two young boys sailing in an egg-shell boat on ocean water.
Date:
1870 - 1900
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
I. Kratzenstein, etc.
Description:
Advertisement for I. Kratzenstein, Dealer in Notions, Trimmings, etc. This is the only card in the collection for this business, but not the only card for this artist. See bmcad070444001 (Isaac Nusbaum, Fine Woolen Goods) was also designed by Geo M. Hayes. Card with illustration of two cats cuddling in a chair, and another cat watching from behind a pail. Its caption reads: “Jealousy.”
Date:
1881
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
Waverly Bowling Saloon
Description:
Advertisement for Waverly Bowling Saloon. This is the only card in the collection for this business.
Date:
1850 - 1900
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York
Description:
Advertisement for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York.
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Title:
For the Best Teas & Coffees
Description:
Advertisement for Japan & China Tea Co.
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hanthorn & Turner Trunks and Traveling Bags
Title:
Hanthorn & Turner Trunks and Traveling Bags
Description:
Advertisement for Hanthorn & Turner, manufacturers of trunks and traveling bags, N. W. Cor. 10th and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. Illustration of a man and child riding in a wagon pulled by a dog chasing a bunny.
Date:
1879
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hire's Cough Cure
Title:
Hire's Cough Candy
Description:
Advertisement for Hires' Cough Cure. Illustration of young girl pouring cough medicine into a spoon with three frogs at her feet. The front states, They Must Be Very Hoarse.
Date:
(approximate) 1870 - (approximate) 1890
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hale, Kilburn & Co. Champion Folding Bed and Crib
Title:
Hale, Kilburn & Co. Champion Folding Bed and Crib
Description:
Advertisement for Hale, Kilburn & Co., sole manufacturers of the prize medal Champion Folding Bed & Crib.
Date:
(approximate) 1880 - (approximate) 1910
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Van Stan's Stratena Cement
Title:
Van Stan's Stratena Cement
Description:
Advertisement for Van Stan's Stratena Cement, All Genuine Has the Full Name Blown in the Bottle. Illustration of two boys with their coats glued together. A third boy says "Ha! Ha! Ha! No use Boys!!! Been sitting in Van Stan's Stratena."
Date:
(approximate) 1870 - (approximate) 1890
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Jame's Pyles Pearline
Title:
Jame's Pyles Pearline
Description:
Advertisement for James Pyle's Pearline soap. Illustration of young girl with delicate hands wearing a hat on front. On back, there is an illustration of distorted hands with the text "we use soap, and underneath an illustration of normal hands with the text, we use Pearline."
Date:
(approximate) 1870 - (approximate) 1900
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Compliments of W. M. Williams
Title:
Compliments of W. M. Williams
Description:
Advertisement for W. M. Williams.
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Jacob Grell, Bronzing in all Varieties
Title:
Jacob Grell, Bronzing in all Varieties
Description:
Advertisement for Jacob Grell, Bronzing in all Varieties. This is the only card in the collection for this business. The date comes from a handwritten note on back of this card for an order.
Date:
1889
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hanthorn & Turner Trunks and Traveling Bags
Title:
Hanthorn & Turner Trunks and Traveling Bags
Description:
Advertisement for Hanthorn & Turner, manufacturers of trunks and traveling bags, N. W. Cor. 10th and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia. Illustration of a man and child riding in a wagon pulled by a dog chasing a bunny.
Date:
(approximate) 1879
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hire's Cough Candy
Title:
Hire's Cough Candy
Description:
Advertisement for Hires' Cough Cure. Illustration of young girl pouring cough medicine into a spoon with three frogs at her feet. The front states, They Must Be Very Hoarse.
Date:
(approximate) 1870 - (approximate) 1890
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Hale, Kilburn & Co. Champion Folding Bed and Crib
Title:
Hale, Kilburn & Co. Champion Folding Bed and Crib
Description:
Advertisement for Hale, Kilburn & Co., sole manufacturers of the prize medal Champion Folding Bed & Crib.
Date:
(approximate) 1880 - (approximate) 1910
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Van Stan's Stratena Cement
Title:
Van Stan's Stratena Cement
Description:
Advertisement for Van Stan's Stratena Cement, All Genuine Has the Full Name Blown in the Bottle. Illustration of two boys with their coats glued together. A third boy says "Ha! Ha! Ha! No use Boys!!! Been sitting in Van Stan's Stratena."
Date:
(approximate) 1870 - (approximate) 1890
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Dr J.C Ayer & Co's Ayer's Hair Vigor
Title:
Dr J.C Ayer & Co's Ayer's Hair Vigor
Description:
Advertisement for Dr J.C Ayer & Co's Ayer's Hair Vigor. One colored illustration of a girl and one grey scale illustration of a woman whispering into the ears of another woman. Text above the colored illustration states "Ayer's Hair Vigor for the Toilet"
Date:
1880
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection
Parker's Ginger Tonic and Parker's Hair Balsam
Title:
Parker's Ginger Tonic and Parker's Hair Balsam
Description:
Advertisement for Parker's Ginger Tonic (front) and Hair Balsam (back).
Collection:
Early Advertising Collection

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