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Daniels & Newpert
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 6 1/8" x 4 1/4".)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Christmas
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Santa giving toys to children with a Christmas tree in the background, color. Text on card reads "Compliments of Blossburg Tea Store, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Baking Powder, Extracts, Etc. We guarantee all our goods to be the best quality in the market. Handsome presents to all customers. 87 Main Street, Blossburg, Pa. Daniels & Newpert, Propr's."
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McLoughlin Bros. (publisher?)
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Circa 1890
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1 Item (Ink on paper., 9.3" x 6.9")
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Color cartoon Valentine card with dailogue balloons and poem below image. Creators unidentified, but possibly published by McLoughlin Brothers.
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L.I. Fisk & Co.
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Soap
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Color image shows a Caucasian female figure and a Japanese man on opposite sides of the page bearing the quoted inscription. Each figure is balanced on fancifully arranged stacks of "Japanese" soap. Four images of washed garments on verso.
Contained In:
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Soap / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other / All Soaps / Bearing Our Name / are warranted / free from any of / the many / adulterations. / The best for / economy, / purity, / cleanliness / and / washing quality / of any / in the world. / L.I. Fisk & Co. / Springfield, / Mass. [trade card]
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Hartford Chemical Works
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Soap
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertisement for Hartford's Lavine soap. Color illustration shows Chinese men, all with long queues, happily dancing around a box of Lavine soap. This contrasts with other advertising imagery of Chinese laundries of the period, in which the Chinese are shown as unhappy because American products are putting them out of business.
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Peerless Wringer Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Laundry
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Illustration: Caucasian wringing frightened Chinese man's queue through a No. 2-1/2 Peerless wringer. The concept of the cartoon is that laundry machinery would put Chinese laundries out of business. This is a two-color image.
Contained In:
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Laundry Machinery and Accessories / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other / Manufacturers and Distributors of Laundry Machinery and Accessories / Simpson & Gault / The Chinese Question Solved / by the Peerless Wringer [text above image] [trade card]
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
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1904
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1 Item (Ink on paper, 3-7/8 x 5-3/4 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.World
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Front depicts image and back contains text and handwritten signature of John [Garpan] Lambert.
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
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1904
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1 Item (Ink on paper, 3-7/8 x 5-7/8 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.World
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
14 Landmarks identified by key: Grand Entrance, Germany's Building, Mines & Metallurgy, Liberal Arts, Cascades, Educational & Social Economy, Manufacturers, Horticultural, Jerusalem, Electricity, Agricultural, Machinery, Varied Industries, Transportation. Front depicts image and contains key. Back is blank with handwritten cataloging number.
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
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1904
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1 Item (Ink on paper, 3-7/8 x 5-7/8 in.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.World
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Front depicts image and back contains handwritten note: "Dear Mrs. G, Have wished a dozen times that you could be with us. The fair is wonderful and we are having such a good time. Only wish you and pa were along. Love to all and hope your [sic] well. Yours as ever, [Stephen]."
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Singer Manufacturing Company
J. Ottomann Lith. Co.
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1 Item (Ink on paper.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Sewing
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Image of Japanese woman using Singer Sewing Machine to sew a brown Western men's jacket. Woman wears purple kimono with yellow and red undershift. Back contains brief text on the history of Japan. Card probably used at the Chicago World Exposition of 1893.
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Bell, R.W., Manufacturing Co.
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1 Item (col., 13.5 x 7.5 cm.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Soap
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Advertising card. "R.W. BELL MFG. CO., BUFFALO, N.Y." Poem under illustration includes lines: "Friend Barney's a hod-carrier, and sure he's no mope. /... / As he thinks of a wash with the best cake of soap--BELL'S BUFFALO... " Illustration of man in dark pants and red shirt standing by a ladder and holding a hod, with a falling brick. On verso is a...