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 29 September 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> While a Google search found nothing on "Virginius Cigars," Myers, Tice and Co. information does surface on Google Books : Title The History of Dubuque County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Iowa ... Contributor Western Historical Co Publisher Western Historical, 1880 Original from Columbia University Digitized Jun 8, 2009 Length 977 pages, p.660 Encyclopedia Dubuque has more information on this firm. That would be "S.I. Freeman's," Hartford CT. No wonder this whale was gritting its "teeth." Whale oil was one of the ingredients used by Kendall Mfg. Co. in fabricating its products. See page 147 of the Earl J. Arnold Ad...

updated 13 May 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> Card added to Arnold Collection. Please let me know if you can decipher the printer's mark in the lower right corner. Thanks! As can be seen below, there were sometimes distractions that made "working from home" more interesting in the 19th century... Providence Tool Co. advertising agents were fond of large eggs. Here's another: The Household Sewing Machine Youtube, Farmboy00000 The Household Sewing machine, as can be seen from the trade card above, was made by the Providence Tool Co. Now things get a bit complicated. For three years, but only three as far as I can see, they also made the Domestic Sewing Machine under contract with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, as per this Google Books reference : Title Before the Featherweight - Sewhandy Volume 1 History Volume 1 of Before the Featherweight - Sewhandy, ...