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"Queen of the laundry" Jas. S. Kirk & Co. soap makers Chicago

"Queen of the laundry" Jas. S. Kirk & Co. soap makers Chicago

Advertisement for Jas. S. Kirk & Company's "Queen of the Laundry" soap showing a woman with a laundry basket standing before the "queen" seated on a throne fashioned from inverted wash tubs and washboards.

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Trade.

A short stop! Smoke the "Capadura" cigar

A short stop! Smoke the "Capadura" cigar

Print shows a baseball player getting hit in the face by a batted baseball, it has knocked off his cap, labeled "Cap-A-Dura", and bloodied his nose. Printed on lower right: Registered by R.C. Brown. Printed on... More

Use Getz cockroach and bed bug exterminators, sold by all druggists I sink I tan hit it.

Use Getz cockroach and bed bug exterminators, sold by all druggists I ...

Advertising trade card shows a small child with baseball bat about to attempt hitting a thrown baseball. "General Office: 323 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO." Forms part of: Samuel Rosenberg collection (Library o... More

Use Getz cockroach and bed bug exterminators, sold by all druggists I sink I tan hit it.

Use Getz cockroach and bed bug exterminators, sold by all druggists I ...

Advertising trade card shows a small child with baseball bat about to attempt hitting a thrown baseball. "General Office: 323 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO." Forms part of: Samuel Rosenberg collection (Library o... More

Compliments of Enrich Bros. 8th Ave. & 24th St.]

Compliments of Enrich Bros. 8th Ave. & 24th St.]

Advertising card showing Oscar Wilde sitting on sofa with closed book in one hand and his head resting on the other. Date estimate based on Sarony photograph made January 1882 and the 1884 Supreme Court decisi... More

Cats can, but Bon Ami can not scratch for it lacks grit The Gray Litho. Co., N.Y

Cats can, but Bon Ami can not scratch for it lacks grit The Gray Litho...

Print shows a young girl trying to pull a cat away from a birdcage by pulling on its tail; the cat is about to scratch the bird inside with its claws. Advertising trade card for Bon Ami cleaning powder, which, ... More

Crescite et multiplicamini, Landscape view print

Crescite et multiplicamini, Landscape view print

Ford's Grand Opera House, Baltimore, surrounded by views of the New Opera House, Washington; Ford's Theatre (shown here serving as the United States Medical Museum), 10th St., Washington; Holliday St. Theatre, ... More

Crescite et multiplicamini, Landscape view print

Crescite et multiplicamini, Landscape view print

Ford's Grand Opera House, Baltimore, surrounded by views of the New Opera House, Washington; Ford's Theatre (shown here serving as the United States Medical Museum), 10th St., Washington; Holliday St. Theatre, ... More

Advertisement Poster: Soapine. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Advertisement Poster: Soapine. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Advertisement for Kendall Mfg. Company's "Soapine" household and laundry soap product showing the portrait of a young girl holding a cat. Includes text of the advertisement on verso of the trade card. "For was... More

Winter scene with horse team hauling logs on a sledge past a windmill, with snow covered landscape, under a full moon

Winter scene with horse team hauling logs on a sledge past a windmill,...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of winter scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, no... More

Poster - Acorn stoves and ranges - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Acorn stoves and ranges - Public domain lithograph

Advertisement for Acorn Stoves and Ranges showing the portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet and in the upper right corner the Acorn logo. Includes text of the advertisement for Acorn stoves and ranges manu... More

Acorn stoves and ranges - over 1,000,000 in use

Acorn stoves and ranges - over 1,000,000 in use

Advertisement for Acorn Stoves and Ranges showing the portrait of a young girl holding a puppy in oval with blank nameplate. Includes a wood engraved illustration of the "Imperial Acorn Range" and letterpress t... More

Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes - Drawing. Public domain image.

Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes - Drawing. Public domain image.

Advertisement for Edwin C. Burt shoes, showing boy and girl on shoe sailboat; Burt's calendar for 1882 on verso. Samuel Rosenberg Collection.

French laundry - Kendall Mfg. Co. Providence R.I.

French laundry - Kendall Mfg. Co. Providence R.I.

Advertisement for Kendall Mfg. Company's "French Laundry Soap" showing a young woman beating clothes on a rock.

Philadelphia Base Ball Club - Public domain  print

Philadelphia Base Ball Club - Public domain print

Proof sheet for cards to use as give-aways in packages of Old Judge Cigarettes shows portraits of 24 Philadelphia Base Ball Club players in active poses. 16702 U.S. Copyright Office.

Cadbury's almanack for 2,000 years - a literary & useful curiosity

Cadbury's almanack for 2,000 years - a literary & useful curiosity

Print shows a young boy dressed as a chef carrying a tray on which are a steaming ewer and cup of "cocoa essence"; also shows various graphics around the central motif and states that it is "Registered". This i... More

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Trade.

Soapine. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Soapine. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Advertisement for Kendall Mfg. Company's "Soapine" household and laundry soap product showing the portrait of a young girl holding a cat. Includes text of the advertisement on verso of the trade card. "For was... More

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, ... F.B. Patterson, 27 Park Row, N.Y

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, ... F.B. Patterson, 27 Par...

Print shows an elderly woman in a shoe with many children; she is feeding some from a large can of "Nestlé's Milk Food", other children play outside the shoe, and another large can of "Nestlé's Milk Food" is on... More

Winter outing with people riding in horse-drawn sleighs across a snow covered landscape toward a church in the distance

Winter outing with people riding in horse-drawn sleighs across a snow ...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of winter scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, no... More

Ship at sea, under full sail, with five men in a rowboat under a partially obscured full moon

Ship at sea, under full sail, with five men in a rowboat under a parti...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of nautical scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, ... More

[Advertisement for Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam for the Teeth, both manufactured by E.W. Hoyt & Co., Lowell, Massachusetts., illustrated with girl and Ladies Calendar for 1889]

[Advertisement for Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam for the Teeth, b...

Samuel Rosenberg Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laundry starch - Gilbert S. Graves, manufacturer, Buffalo, N.Y.

Laundry starch - Gilbert S. Graves, manufacturer, Buffalo, N.Y.

Advertisement for laundry starch manufactured by Gilbert S. Graves in Buffalo, New York, showing two women hanging laundry on a clothesline. B.G.S. Co.

Just arrived! Alfred Wright's perfumery. "Mary Stuart" and "Wild Olive" 45 cts. per bottle. For sale by Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia

Just arrived! Alfred Wright's perfumery. "Mary Stuart" and "Wild Olive...

Print shows an animated root vegetable, possibly a beet, with a human head wearing a tall top hat, and carrying a walking stick and a heart fashioned out of soil, from which a plant is growing. The vegetable is... More

Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton trade mark

Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton trade mark

Print shows an African American man sitting on a large spool of Clark's spool cotton thread at the edge of a stream or lake; he is using the thread as fishing line for a fishing pole and is giving it a tug to t... More

Craft, Conrow & Co., house furnishing goods and hardware, 905 Market Street, Philadelphia

Craft, Conrow & Co., house furnishing goods and hardware, 905 Market S...

Print shows in two scenes of ancient Egypt, at top, an Egyptian man handing a dead duck to another man, at bottom, the man is roasting the duck over a hibachi or open grill by placing it on a long rod or spit a... More

Acorn stoves and ranges - over 1,000,000 in use

Acorn stoves and ranges - over 1,000,000 in use

Advertisement for Acorn Stoves and Ranges showing the portrait of a young girl holding a puppy in oval with blank nameplate. Includes a wood engraved illustration of the "Imperial Acorn Range" and letterpress t... More

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

[Trade cards] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Trade.

Philadelphia Base Ball Club - Public domain  print

Philadelphia Base Ball Club - Public domain print

Proof sheet for cards to use as give-aways in packages of Old Judge Cigarettes shows portraits of 24 Philadelphia Base Ball Club players in active poses. 16702 U.S. Copyright Office.

Scream of tartar. Use Patapsco baking powder. For sale everywhere

Scream of tartar. Use Patapsco baking powder. For sale everywhere

Print shows a young man holding a young boy over his knee and is about to beat him with a switch. The young boy has a crown on the seat of his pants. (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collecti... More

Winter scene with frozen waterwheel, a man with horse team and load of logs, and a church in the distance, under a full moon

Winter scene with frozen waterwheel, a man with horse team and load of...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of winter scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, no... More

Acorn stoves and ranges - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Acorn stoves and ranges - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congre...

Advertisement for Acorn Stoves and Ranges showing the portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet and in the upper right corner the Acorn logo. Includes text of the advertisement for Acorn stoves and ranges manu... More