The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 2 October 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Phillip Grace, Jr. was a "dealer in choice wines liquors and cigars [with] lunch at all hours" S.R. Hart's card provides the only information I have on his business. Puzzle cards fascinated Victorian families for hours. The Tollgate series below is one of the most famous, but it was just one of many featured on advertising trade cards. Here's a puzzle distributed by Carters, makers of Liver Pills, etc.: East Carolina University displays the back of this card: The text of   The Sexual System and its Derangements is available from the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health , together with information which puts the contents in proper historical context. East Carolina University's Digital Collections displays another of the four cards in the Toll Gate series which is reproduced below. (As you have probably observed, these...

updated 19 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> In this issue of the American Agriculturalist as digitized by Google Books , Rev. Henry Ward Beecher endorses the use of this contraption. Title American Agriculturist, Volumes 25-26 Publisher Peters, 1866, January, p.35 Original from University of Minnesota Digitized Jan 7, 2015 Doty's Clothes Washer was manufactured by Doty Brothers, Janesville, WI.  Their ad appeared in: Title Wisconsin and Minnesota State Gazetteer, Shippers' Guide and Business Directory for 1865-'66 Author George W. Hawes Publisher G.W. Hawes, 1865 Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized Sep 30, 2011 Length 358 pages, page 110 The machine was the invention of William Doty. Judy and Conrad Terrill outline Doty Brothers history as part of their PDF of a promotional pamphlet filed by the compan...