Advertising cards
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Marion County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2365
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various items related to Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1867 to 1990. The collection is organized into several categories Folder 1 includes churches and religion, colleges and institutions, government buildings, Indianapolis buildings, and manufacturing. Folder 2 contains advertisements and letterheads, clubs and organizations, Foster Hall, Indianapolis homes, Indianapolis scenes, and miscellaneous. Much of the collection consists of prints, advertisements and...
Dates:
1867-1990
Mildred Dixon Harrod collection
Collection — Folder S2901
Identifier: S2901
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 30 items, including original patent medicine advertisements, including catarrhal symptoms, for miscellaneous health care issues (circa 1884-1926), miscellaneous correspondence to Mildred Dixon Harrod, and one advertisement for Epworth Concert Grand pianos (undated).
Dates:
1884-1926
Mitchell family collection
Collection — Folder S2506
Identifier: S2506
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of printed flyers, advertisements, trade cards, and copies of genealogical material ranging from 1899 to 1922 regarding farming, agriculture, and family life. The family history material consist of a biography of Chalkley Emerson Hunt (1842-1918) and autobiographical reminscences of an unnamed person. Among the printed items are publications from Hoosier Mineral Feed, Indiana Mutual Cylone Insurance Co., E. Rauh & Sons Animal Feed Co., and Swine...
Dates:
1899-1922
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mitchell family collection
Montgomery County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2091
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the following items related to Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana: a "A Plucky Woman" advertisement booklet for Piso's cure for consumption from the Brown and Son store and an advertisement card for D.W. Rountree and six other businesses with the song, "Grandmother's Chair," printed on the back from circa 1885; an absent slip from the city schools for Gussie Wray dated February 5, 1889; and an undated advertisement card for F.W. Shigley...
Dates:
circa 1885-1959
Nancy Hovarter papers
Collection
Identifier: S0685
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a postcard and a letter sent to Nancy Hovarter in Angola, Indiana from her daughter Hattie Weirich in Toledo, Ohio on August 12, 1924, and from her granddaughter Ruth and family in Glenwood, Iowa on Augutst 24, 1931, respectively concerning travel, unemployment, farming, drought, and the swarm of grasshoppers which devastated Midwestern crops in 1931. There is also a letter to Hattie Weirich in Kendallville, Indiana from her sister Lydia in Orland, Indiana on July 15,...
Dates:
1884-1931
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Nancy Hovarter papers
Putnam County collection
Collection — Folder S1688
Identifier: S1688
Scope and Contents
The collection includes miscellaneous historical papers and documents of Putnam County, Indiana, including advertising cards from Russelville and Greencastle, Indiana; manuscripts and narratives about courthouses, African-American citizens in Greencastle, and various county personalities; handwritten legal documents, including land records, indentures, warrants, and estate papers (1831-1886); and a January 27, 1963 letter from Mrs. John R. Stevens to Mr. Guthrie regarding an article about a...
Dates:
1831-1886
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Putnam County collection
Schnull-Krag Coffee Company trade cards
Collection — Folder S2547
Identifier: S2547
Scope and Contents
This collection includes thirteen trade cards from the Schnull-Krag Coffee Company of Indianapolis, Indiana (circa 1880s). Varying in size, most of the cards promote the company's Standard Coffee, touting it as the "Best Package Coffee on Earth." Two cards of special note have pictures of ladies in formal gowns, wearing white gloves and holding fans and were used to promote the company's "High Grade Windsor Mocha and Java" and "Best Java" coffees.
Dates:
circa 1880s
Sherwood family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1174
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and documents of the Sherwood family of Franklin County, Indiana ranging from 1816 to 1955. The collection includes a typewritten copy of the 1816 plat of Greensboro (now known as Blooming Grove), Franklin County, Indiana originally platted by James Sherwood and his brother-in-law John Naylor; an undated hand drawn plat of Blooming Grove noting locations of some businesses; a February 10, 1817 bond between Sherwood, Naylor and William Templeton; a...
Dates:
1816-1955
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Sherwood family collection
Singer Manufacturing Company advertising cards
Collection — Folder S1192
Identifier: S1192
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 10 advertising cards from Singer Manufacturing Company ranging from 1892-1913 regarding sewing machines.
Dates:
1892-1913
Standard Motor Truck Company card
Collection — Folder S3450
Identifier: S3450
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one advertising card created by the STandard Motor Truck Company circa 1920s. One side shoes a car from the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company with a description of the car and the back shows a line drawing of a No. C-80-P "Trunk Line Service" double truck.
Dates:
circa 1920s
