Historic New England

Trade card for Nestor Cigarettes, man with camel wearing a decorated head collar, Nestor Gianaclis Company, Cairo, Boston, London, 1899

The pyramids create a backdrop for a camel and his driver in the card image. The image caption reads "Ahead to stay and stay they will, till perfection meets its match, Nestor Cigarettes." The bottom of the card reads "Copyright 1899 by C.A. Kimball." The image is signed "Sears Gallagher."

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270553

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.01.044

Trade card for Nestor Cigarettes, figures on a riverbank with palm trees, Nestor Gianaclis Company, Cairo, Boston, London, 1899

Figures on the shore of a riverbank are dwarfed by palm trees and a pyramid in the background. The image caption reads "A depth of purity, the mildness of sweetness, a quality their exclusive own, Nestor Cigarettes." The bottom of the card reads "Copyright 1899 by C.A. Kimball." The image is signed ...

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270554

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.01.045

Trade card for Nestor Cigarettes, group of feluccas on a river, Nestor Gianaclis Company, Cairo, Boston, London, 1899

Feluccas sail on a river in the card image. The image caption reads "As mild as the summer breezes, as clean as the tropic sea, Nestor Cigarettes." The bottom of the card reads "Copyright 1899 by C.A. Kimball." The image is signed "Sears Gallagher."

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270555

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.01.046

Trade card for Nestor Cigarettes, woman smoking a cigarette, Nestor Gianaclis Company, Cairo, Boston, London, 1899

A woman reclines on some pillows while smoking a cigarette. The image caption reads "The restful luxury of inhalent quality, Nestor Cigarettes." The bottom of the card reads "Copyright 1899 by C.A. Kimball." The image is signed "Sears Gallagher."

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270556

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.01.047

Advertisement for Blue Boar English Blend Cigarettes, The American Tobacco Company, undated

The Blue Boar trademark is shown in the advertisement.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270558

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.01.048

Narragansett Pier, cigarette card, Wm. S. Kimball & Co's Cigarettes, Rochester, New York, undated

The card is part of the Fancy Bathers series given with each box of Kimball's Cigarettes. The bathing scenes are listed on the card verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270559

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.001

Trade card for Prince Albert Crimp Cut, long burning pipe and cigarette tobacco, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1907

The card holds paper for rolling cigarettes. The Crimp Cut Tobacco was patented on July 30, 1907.

Date: 1907

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270560

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.002

Trade card for Canney & Graves, importers and manufacturers of Havana and Principe Cigars and dealers in leaf and manufactured tobacco, No. 50 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business is the successor to G.H. Jones.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270561

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.003

Trade card for the Rainmaker, the 5 cent cigar, Martin L. Hall & Co., Boston, Mass., undated

The card verso reads "A meal and a bed in each puff. Everybody sells them. No household complete without them."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270562

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.004

Trade card for D.H. Clark, W.I. goods, fruits, confectionery, nuts, tobacco, cigars and notions, French's Block, Main Street, Barre, Vermont, undated

City tourists ask the country grocer if he has any canned worms for bait in the caption.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270563

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.005

Trade card for G. & T. Hales, manufacturers of Havana and domestic cigars, Pleasant Street, Claremont, New Hampshire, undated

The cigar manufacturer is located in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270564

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.006

Label for Pearson's Red Top Snuff, Byfield Snuff Co., Byfield, Mass., undated

The label reads "Pearson's Mills" above the female figure.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270565

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.007

Trade card for Newport Club 5 c. Cigar, location unknown, undated

The card opens to show a man in a bathroom leaning over a toilet bowl.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270566

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.008

Trade card for Venable's St. George Tobacco, Venable Tobacco Company, Durham, North Carolina, undated

Saint George slaying the dragon is the image used for the tobacco brand. The chewing tobacco can be purchased from Jacob W. Welch, dealer in groceries and hardware, in Groveton, New Hampshire.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270567

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.009

Trade card for Lorillard's Splendid Plug Tobacco, P. Lorillard & Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, 1886

The card displays storm and weather signals from the United States Meteorological Bureau.

Date: 1886

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270624

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.010

Trade card for Wave Line Plug Tobacco, The Wilson & McCallay Tobacco Company, Middletown, Ohio, undated

A United States Navy Commissary sailor displays a box of the plug tobacco. The item is for sale by D.M. Pollard & Company, Keene, New Hampshire.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270625

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.011

Envelope for W.G. Slate, cash grocery store, Northfield, Mass., undated

The store carries cigars, tobacco and pastry.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270626

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.012

Copley Square, Boston, Mass., Cigars Makers' International Union of America, location unknown, undated

The card verso displays the blue label of the Cigar Makers' Internation Union of America. The public is urged to smoke union-made cigars. The postcard image shows the Boston Public Library and the Old South Church in Copley Square.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270628

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.013

Trade card for Blackwell's Durham Tobacco, manufactured only by W.T. Blackwell & Co., Durham, North Carolina, undated

The public is urged to look for the bull trade mark. The image and text on the card verso indicate the card was cut from a larger item.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270629

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.014

Mishaps of J. Alphonso Brown until he got Blackwell's Genuine Durham, a warning to young men in seven chapters, W.T. Blackwell & Co., Durham, North Carolina, undated

The panels show what happens to Brown when he smokes another brand of tobacco. The item has only four of the seven chapters.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270630

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.015

Label for Golden Grit, cigars, location unknown, undated

The label is decorated in colors of gold, red and yellow.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270631

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.016

Cigarette card for Wm. S. Kimball & Co's Cigarettes, Rochester, New York, undated

A couple meet on a staircase at a masked ball in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270632

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.017

Label for La Meloda, cigars, Landfield & Steele makers, location unknown, undated

A woman wearing a violet hat decorates the cigar label.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270633

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.018

Label for Jewelo, cigars, location unknown, undated

A figure in a plumed hat courts a girl holding tobacco leaves.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270634

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.019

Handbill for Harvard Pippins, cigars, H. Traiser & Co., Boston, Mass., undated

The text reads "The largest plant in the world making strictly high class union cigars." The business was established in 1852.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270635

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.020

Handbill for Estabrook & Eaton, importers and manufacturers of fine cigars, 222 & 224 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business is located opposite Young's Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270636

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.021

Billhead for the Boston Co-Operative Association, manufacturers of fine segars and dealers in leaf tobacco, 85 State Street, Boston, Mass., dated June 12, 1889

The business premises are shown in the billhead image.

Date: 1889-06-12

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270637

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.022

Label for New Colony Mixture, tobacco, Bacon Bros., Cambridge, England, undated

Bacon Brothers was established in 1805 in Cambridge, England.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270638

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.023

Label for Las Fumas de Puerto Rico, location unknown, undated

The gold and white label is decorated with various symbols.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270639

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.024

Label for Puritan Leader, Havana Filler, location unknown, undated

The figure of Oliver Cromwell is used to decorate the label for Puritan Leader cigars.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270641

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.025

Billhead for Murray & Reed, tobacconists, No. 1 Bank Block, Burlington, Vermont, dated June 29, 1870

The business carries tobacco, cigars, snuff, pipes and chewing tobacco.

Date: 1870-06-29

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270642

Ref. Code: EP001.01.115.01.02.026

Trade card for Wm. S. Tower & Co., manufacturers of toy ware, South Hingham, Mass., undated

Tower makes pails, tubs, coolers, churns and doll swings in his factory at Wilder's Mill.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270643

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.002

Trade card for R. Schwarz, toy bazaar, 499 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

A Santa Claus figure holds a Christmas tree pole in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270644

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.003

Trade card for Horace Partridge & Co., importers of wax, parian, china and other dolls, 51, 53, 55 & 57 Hanover Street, Boston, Mass., undated

A little girl sits in a high chair in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270645

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.004

Trade card for unidentified toy dealer, location unknown, undated

Children play with toys around a large toy chest in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270646

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.005

Hurricane Picture, R.I., 1938

A man holding a hard hat, in front of a fallen spruce tree.

Date: 1938

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 270649

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USRI.0010.0020.001

Unknown gathering/ party, Rhode Island

Seven women at a gathering on a patio, with a birdcage and a hammock (with one woman sitting in it) hanging from the trees. Two women play chess, and a Japanese doll sits in a rocking chair.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 270650

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0010.0010.001

Brown University Campus Front Green in the Winter, Providence, R.I., 1881

A young boy stands on a snow-covered section of what appears to be Front Green on Brown University's campus.

Date: 1881

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 270651

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0360.0070.001

Advertisement for the grand exhibition for holiday presents at Wholesale Warerooms, Nos. 557 and 559 Broadway, near Prince Street, New York, New York, undated

Wheat is harvested in the image. The exhibition will have "toys and dolls in great variety." The bottom of the item reads "Illustrated Advertising Co., 15 Spruce Street, New York."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270653

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.006

Trade card for importers and manufacturers, holiday combination, 677 Broadway, New York, New York, undated

The sale will have toys, dolls, jasepori, willow goods, carved ornaments tin and mechanical toys.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270654

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.007

Postcard for The French Doll Shop and Infirmary, 128a Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The postcard is from "Wm. Nisbet, wax figure artist, 128a Tremont Street, Boston, Mass."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270655

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.008

Trade card for J.B. Quinn and Co., holiday gifts, Gardner, Mass., undated

Text on the card verso urges customers to purchase a $.10 ticket for the chance to win a $25.00 doll.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270657

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.009

Advertisement for 98c stocking, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1927

The stocking contents are described in detail on the item verso.

Date: ca. 1927

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270658

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.010

Scott's patent toy combination, the tie-joint, location unknown, undated

The sheet has instructions for using the combination toy and puzzle.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270659

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.011

Illustrated sheet no. 23, toy house instruction sheet, location unknown, undated

The sheet has illustrations for each step of constructing a toy house. The pieces are numbered.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270660

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.012

Trade card for Richard Schwarz, toy emporium, 497 & 499 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

A Santa Claus figure holds a Christmas tree pole in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270661

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.02.001

Trade card for Richard Schwarz, toy emporium, 497 & 499 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Reindeer pull a sleigh driven by Santa Claus in the card illustration.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270662

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.02.002

Trade card for Richard Schwarz, toy emporium, 497 & 499 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Three children play with blocks, a drum and a model in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270663

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.02.003

Trade card for Richard Schwarz, toy emporium, 497 & 499 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Three children play on a rocking horse, a swing and a bicycle in the card image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270664

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.02.004

Daddy Scott, Inc., makers of toys, windmills and novelties, Marblehead, Mass., undated

The inside of the brochure lists and describes the items for sale. The portrait of Daddy Scott is "From a painting from life by Orlando Rouland."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 270665

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.02.005

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