The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 10 September 2017 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> E.M. Rose issued a lot of trade cards (for sale on eBay and Amazon as of 2015) and probably sold a good deal of merchandise. However, I need your help uncovering further information. Please comment below or email me. Thanks! (reverse below) The only record of the possible original owner of this card, Addie Poyer, indicates that she may have lived at 228 Hazen St., Ithaca NY, the boarding house of Mary L. Ready. She was employed as a domestic an appeared on a list of typhoid patients in 1903 compiled by David DeKok . Although 78 Cascadilla St. was demolished, this is an example of nearby commercial architecture typical of the period. Flood control projects (not to mention floods) have changed this neighborhood intersection a great deal since the late 1800s. Photo derived from Google Street View. See page 69 of the Earl J. ...

updated 7 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> After all that, the frog seems unimpressed... Lautz Brothers & Company, manufacturers of Acme Soap, are listed in the Buffalo City Directory ( Google Books ): Title The Buffalo Directory Publisher Courier Company of Buffalo, 1880 p. 467 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized May 9, 2011 Buffalo's Hanover St. has been recreated without any of the buildings as it passes beneath the Buffalo Skyway ( Google Street View, Sept 2011 ): The back of an Acme card just acquired by the Diver collection: Recently acquired are these Acme cards: Reverse of the previous card. Here's what Lautz Brothers would send for 100 Acme Soap wrappers ( Wikimedia Commons, public domain ): Hailing the Ferry , oil on canvas painting by Daniel Ridgway Knight, 1888 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts For addi...

updated 15 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE      ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> All the fans on this page are die cuts without commercial affiliation. They were used by scrapbookers to make their pages more colorful. The 1877 Transactions of the Housatonic Agricultural Society  (p.24) had this to report regarding a Mrs. W. Bartholomew: Foster, Milburn & Co., Buffalo NY addition to Collection; reverse of card below Burdock Blood Bitters, like many medications of its time, was found to be ineffective. It contained a goodly percentage of ethyl alcohol (that's booze, folks!) and was administered in many cases just for the effects of the alcohol rather than the burdock. Quoting the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletin, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (v.37 no.1 p.86, July 1937) reported: Tracing those making Burdick Blood Bitters endorsements can be d...