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Lithographic Compliment
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Advertising Trade Card • Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann Litho • NYC • 3″ x 7″ • c.1880
Lets Have a Game
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Playing Cards • 3″ x 4″ each • c.1920
Global Scale
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Advertising Trade Card • Donaldson Bros. Litho • NYC • 3″ x 5″ • c.1880
Gentle Persuasion
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Advertising Trade Card • Donaldson Bros. Litho • NYC • 3″ x 5″ • c.1880
Fine Tooth Comb
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Advertising Die Cut • Stock Die Cut • 2″ x 4″ • c.1880
Exotic Alixe
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Cigar Box Label • Heppenheimer & Maurer • NYC • 4″ x 4″ • c.1865
Exhibition Brand
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Fabric Label • Massachusetts? • 7″ x 9″ • c.1850
Eugenie Buffet
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Paul Dupont Litho • Paris • 36″ x 47″ • c.1895
Doggie Shadows
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Advertising Trade Card • Forbes Litho • Boston • 4″ x 3″ • c.1880
Corned Beef Babies
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Advertising Trade Card • Shober & Carqueville Litho • Chicago • 5″ x 3″ • c.1860
Cloakings
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Advertising Trade Card • for Quackenbush & Co. • 3″ x 5″ • c.1885
Cigarette Wrapper Espana
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Cigarette Wrapper • Fabrica de Mendoza • Havana • 5″ x 4″ • c.1860
Cavalier Beer
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Advertising Die Cut • Henderson Achert Litho • for Ross-Schneider Brewing Co. • Cincinnati • 4″ x 6″ • c.1890
Bulb Burned His Hand
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Advertising Trade Card • Edison Mazda Co. • New Jersey • 6″ x 3″ • c.1915
Best Cement Lecture
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Advertising Trade Card • Chas Shields & Sons Litho • New York City • for Van Stan Cement Co. • 3″ x 7″ • c.1885
Edler and Krische Publishers
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Poster • Edler and Krische pub • Berlin • 12″ x 16″ • c.1925
Ancient Ice Cream
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Advertising Trade Card • for American Machine Co. • Philadelphia • 5″ x 3″ • c.1875
Celebrated Marching Hams
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Advertising Trade Card • Sobert Litho Co. • New York City • for McFerran, Seal, Cross & Co. • Louisville, Kentucky • 3″ x 5″ c.1885
Where Hope Lives for the Hopeless Boston Braves
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It’s 1927 spring training for the hopeless Boston Braves, and hope is in the air. You can’t lose a pennant in March, the players tell one another, as they do…
Youthful Beard Pulling Incident
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Youthful Beard Pulling Incident Almost more interesting than this one-sixth plate ambrotype itself is – why was it made of a youthful beard pulling incident? The fact that three grinning…
Circular 1880s Cigar Box Label – In Passing
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Why do I like this little circular 1880s cigar box label so much? I’m trying to figure it out. Though it will be mostly about color – and there is…
A Children’s Wedding Day?
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Here is a fun photo of a Children’s Wedding Day for your amusement. There are many old photographs of children posed in wedding apparel. This photo from the 1900’s is a…
Double X – Jimmy Foxx
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Double X – Jimmy Foxx was a strong man. He was a slugger. Yet, no photo has ever spoken of his strength more to me than this shot of him…
Happy Native American / First Nations Mother
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This 1920s real photo postcard of a Native American or rather First Nations mother was taken somewhere on the west coast of Canada. It just makes me happy when I look…
Dodgers Celebration
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These guys are not posing for a picture – a Dodgers Celebration. They are not self-conscious, they are in a world of their own, uncaring that a photo is being…
Happy May Day and a Dance Around a May Pole
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This turn of the century photograph captures an historic May Day ritual of a dance around the May Pole. From time medieval and, as some historians believe, with pagan origins, many…
Political Base Ball Match of 1872
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Paper bound book cover illustration 1872
The Fickle Finger of Fame for Ed Andrews
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Ed Andrews was an outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1880s. Ed’s career was perfectly placed to insure that he would be remembered for a century to come. It…
Western Consolidated Oil
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Real photo postcard 1910
Wagon in the Woods
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Real photo postcard 1910
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