At first, the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. [Advertising card.]
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Cragin, I.L., & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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1 Items (col., 13 x 8 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Soap
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
"Card No. 1" from a set of seven,Woman holding naked baby in rocking chair. For Dobbins' Electric Soap. Card 1.
Illustration: Elderly woman wearing mobcap and slippers, presumably a nanny, holds infant while dipping sponge in water basin. Verso of card contains an expansion of the Shaekespearean quotation on the obverse, followed by text advertising Dobbins' Electric Soap. Both sides of card shown in scan above..
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Donaldson Brothers (Five Points, New York)
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1 Item (Ink on paper, 2-1/2 x 5-1/2".)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Men
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Donaldson Brothers imprint at bottom of one card, but another does not carry it (imprint does not show in the copy which was scanned). Donaldson Brothers card also has advertising text on verso, along with a rubber stamp imprint from Moore & Smith, Watertown, N.Y. Illustration shows Chinese men boarding boats, one with sail marked "off for China," ...
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Western Union Telegraph Company
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undated
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 2.0" x 3.5")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0205
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Asst. American Traffic Manager, Western Union Cable System, New York.
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Dinsmore, T.H.
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ca. 1886
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 2.8" x 4.7".)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.CivilWar
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business Card for T.H. Dinsmore, U.S. War Claim Agent located in Boston, 1862-1886.
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Straiton & Storm
Giles Lith.
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Music
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Man in comically tall hat, purple/yellow kimono, holding a fan horizontally in front of him. Trade card used to advertise cigars, similar image used by J & P Coats.
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Corticelli
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Music
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Woman in red kimono, yellow sash, holding blue fan sits on flowering plant. Identified as Yum Yum.
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Wemple & Kronheim
Funk & Lackey
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.PatentMedicines
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Trade card shaped as fan. Two Chinese men in tan/white and blue designed robes face each other, talking, holding hands. Background is yellow, red and blue. Back has red text advertising Althrop's Constitutional Tonic.
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Fleury Medicine Co.
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.PatentMedicines
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Chinese man/baby holding large, ovular white plate in left hand, across body, and chopsticks in right hand. He is looking right at a cat killing a mouse. Back of trade card has partially obscured text discussing the benefits of Wa-Hoo tonic.
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Coats, J & P
Donaldson Brothers
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Thread
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Illustration: Woman in white kimono with light blue and yellow designs sitting on a large spool of thread. She is holding a spool in her left hand and has blue and red fans in her hair. There is a pagoda over her right shoulder. Four-line poem in top left corner of trade card. The moon, slightly above her head, contains the words "J&P Coats' Best S...
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1944-1984
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- AAA.bocoleon
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art