The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 3 February 2019 We now have our own special place on the web! See http://www.photographersstreetview.com/ It has given me great pleasure to tour the many communities featured in the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885 via Google Street View. Not only has this been both economical and environmentally responsible, it has given me an opportunity to survey the landscape at my leisure rather than zooming through town at the posted speed limit (or more). If you can't travel everywhere you'd like, Google Street View offers armchair excursions to some unusual places right under your nose. Take a moment to look around some of the places you think you know. Move that mouse and change your perspective. If you're already there with your phone, Google sometimes offers you a choice of earlier views of the location of your choice. Find out what that building looked like before renovation. Appreciate the architecture that surrounds you. Street View is more tha...

updated 11 March 2019 There are a number of references to family in the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection. To minimize confusion, I have reproduced below a portion of my family tree (beginning with Thomas Burch b.1637 in Dorchester MA, off screen) as prepared by my mother, Faith Arnold Diver, Earl J. Arnold's daughter. The area of interest is highlighted. <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Of particular interest are these notations about Earl J. Arnold's employment: newspaper reporter : Hartford Times Courant Bristol Press public relations/publicity : New Departure Company Chamber of Commerce executive : Bristol CT Lake Worth FL Hartford CT Willimantic CT Waltham MA (1929-1961) Emma Jane Arnold (b. 1850 Bristol CT), compiler of the Arnold scrapbook, was a charter member of the Grand Army of the Republic's Women's Relief Corps. Emma Jane's husband, Robert Earle Arnold (b. 1848...

updated 21 January 2019 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Welcome to  the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection! Site Navigation : Under the opening view of each scrapbook page,   <PREVIOUS PAGE   ~ index ~   NEXT PAGE>   will appear. Page numbers, as well as other terms can be entered into the " Search Arnold Collections " box to your right. You are encouraged to use the  ~  index  ~ , which is always "nearing completion." Page by page listings appear in the Table of Contents . The posts by month (in order) appear as part of the " Blog Archive " to your right. Also to your right are "labels" which are being populated as the original posts are revised. Introduction : As originally compiled, this Collection presents a glimpse of the late 19th century through the lens of an early 21st century observer. At its core is the original trade card scrapb...

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 28 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> published by Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. Hubbard & Norton, 185 Main St., New Britain CT  According to Wikipedia , " Edwin C. Burt  (July 1818 – May 23, 1884) was the owner of  Edwin C. Burt & Co. , a manufacturer of shoes, and director of the  Hanover Insurance Company . " The Wikipedia article presents another famous Burt card: Additional info is on page 171 of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection . Edwin C. Burt & Co. was located at 287 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY Nolan Bros. of San Francisco was a wholesaler of a fairly well-known line of women's shoes. Evidently, they were waterproof with accessories. Google Books  reproduces a document concerning a change of ownership at Nolan Bros. that gives us some insight into the business: Title Boot...