Historic New England

Trade card for E.C. Hazard & Co., Genuine Mineral Silicon for polishing silver ware, E.D. Nickerson, No.5 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The horseshoe is captioned "Good Luck." The verso states the silicon product can be used for polishing gold, silver, plated, brass, copper, tin and glass-ware. E.D. Nickerson is the wholesale agent for New England.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243301

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.002

Trade card for The Improved Union Carpet Sweeper, Union Carpet Sweeper Company, Providence, Rhode Island, ca.1877

The image is the "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" surrounded by all her children. The carpet sweeper was patented August 14, 1877.

Date: ca.1877

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243302

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.003

Trade card for Excelsior Metal Polish, for sale by grocers and harware dealers generally, location unkown, 1881

The bottom of the card reads "Copyright by A.B. Seeley 1881." Each card has "Use Excelsior Metal Polish" with a unique caption for each image. The verso describes the various household items which will benefit from the polish.

Date: 1881

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243303

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.004

Trade card for Geo. H. Mason & Co., steel-edge dust-pans, 152 Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Mason is a wholesale dealer in tin ware.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243304

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.005

Directions for using a carpet sweeper, location unknown, undated

This tag, for an unidentified carpet sweeper, has directions for its use.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243305

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.006

Receipt for cleaning tenements, E. Kirmes, Boston, Mass., dated July 1881

An itemized, handwritten receipt (brush, soap, soda) for cleaning tenements in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1881-07

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243306

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.007

Receipt for tenement cleaning, E. Kirmes, Boston, Mass., dated 6 October, 1881

A handwritten receipt in the amount of $3.00 for tenement cleaning.

Date: 1881-10-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243307

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.008

Frank's Waterproof Beeswax Polishing Blacking, Henry Morton, 246 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., undated

Henry Morton, a shoe and boot dealer, describes the product as a polish and leather preserver.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243308

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.009

Circular for Nicholson=Thackray Co., annual fall kitchen ware sale, Rhode Island, September 1929

Nicholson Thackray, the only Rhode Island owned chain grocery store, has a list of household cleaning supplies available for sale. The verso has Sally Sawyer recipes.

Date: 1929-09

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243309

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.010

Business card for the Spector Wiper Supply Co., wiping cloths, 95 Bridge Street, Lowell, Mass., undated

Spector has cotton and wool waste wiping cloths.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243344

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.02.001

Trade card for Excelsior Metal Polish, Walpole Emery Mills, 114 Milk Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The polish is carried by grocers and hardware dealers. Holway Wright & Miner is the manufacturer's agent with offices on State Street in Boston, Massachusetts and in New York, New York. The caption for the image is "How earnestly precious."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243345

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.02.002

Trade card for the Sandberg Cleaning and Supply Company Inc., 34 Pleasant Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

The company performs cleaning of every description and deals in wholesale and retail cleaning supplies. The Main Street address has been crossed off and replaced with the Pleasant Street address in Worcester.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243346

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.02.003

Advertisement for Quality Brooms, location unkown, undated

The eagle in the image holds a banner in its mouth printed with "Quality Brooms." The bottom of the ad reads "Printed in U.S.A."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243347

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.02.004

Cleaning - Household soaps and polishes - Folder 1

File

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243348

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03

Trade card for Bush & Co's Improved Borax Soap, Bush & Co's Borax Soap Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, undated

The card describes the soap properties and urges the public to ask their grocer for it. The card verso has children gathering flowers in a field.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243349

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.001

Higgins' German Laundry Soap, New York, New York, undated

Two boys run into trouble while trying to get apples. The text on the inside is in German.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243350

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.002

Trade card for Lavine Soap, Hartford Chemical Works, 30 Union Place, Hartford, Connecticut, undated

This trade card contains harmful imagery and language employing racist stereotypes. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England doe...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243351

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.003

Trade card for Pearline Soap, James Pyle, New York, undated

The card verso describes the virtues of Pearline Soap and warns the buyer against imitations.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243352

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.004

Trade cards for Higgins' German Laundry, Chas. S. Higgins, 94 Wall Street, New York, New York, 1880

The image is a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore." The verse below the image begins "Kind Captain..." The card verso has the popular and electoral Presidential election results from 1824-1880 with an admonition to buy the Soap. The second card describes the product. The third card ver...

Date: 1880

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243357

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.005

Trade cards for Higgins' German Laundry, Chas. S. Higgins, 94 Wall Street, New York, New York, 1880

The image is from Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore." The verse below the image begins "Whose praise Great Britain..." The card verso has the popular and electoral Presidential election results from 1824-1880 with an admonition to buy the Soap. The second card verso reads "For laundry and family...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 243359

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.03.006

Harko Special, S.H. Harrison Co., 822-824 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire, undated

The circular contains fabric swatches for Harko Suits carried by S.H. Harrison in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244528

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.02.001

Macullar, Williams & Parker, fine clothing and mens furnishing goods, 194 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

A lithograph print of Macullar, Williams & Parker who are wholesale and retail dealers in fine clothing and men's furnishing goods. The business is also an importer and jobber of fine woolens and tailors trimmings. The image shows the sales floor with pattern books laid out on the tables.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244529

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.02.002

Macullar, Williams & Parker, fine clothing and mens furnishing goods, 194 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The image shows the Wholesale Sales Room, Cutting Room and Examining & Packing Room on the business premises.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244530

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.02.003

Macullar, Williams & Parker, fine clothing and mens furnishing goods, 194 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The Ready Made Clothing Department Manufacturing Rooms and Custom Department Sales Room and Manufacturing Room are seen in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244531

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.02.004

Billhead for Henry J. Weil & Co., manufacturers of the Senate Shirt, No. 68 Summer and No. 40 Otis Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1800

The billhead is for Henry J. Weil & Company located on Summer and Otis Streets in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: ca. 1800

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244532

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.03.001

Billhead for F. & S. Manufacturing Co., White River Junction, Vermont, dated April 28, 1911

The billhead is for a sale of day collars.

Date: 1911-04-28

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244533

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.03.002

Haskell & Jones., mens fine clothing, 470 Congress Street, Portland, Maine, dated April 1, 1886

Haskell & Jones are a manufacturer and jobber. The building in the image has the year "1881" on it.

Date: 1886-04-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244543

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.03.003

Billhead for Walker Stetson Company, manufacturers, importers, jobbers, Essex & Lincoln Streets, Boston, Mass., dated September 20, 1901

Shirts, robes and waists are the items listed on the billhead.

Date: 1901-09-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244544

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.03.004

Trade card for Nathaniel Evans, Jr., ready-made clothing and David S. Carr, tailor, 4 Stickney Block, Concord, New Hampshire, undated

Evans has broadcloths, cassimeres, doeskins, vestings, India rubber clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods. The business is directly opposite the State House.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244545

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.001

Trade card for Geo. N. Noyes, merchant tailor with J.K. Corthell & Co., Nos.9 & 11 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Noyes is a dealer in fashionable clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244546

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.002

Trade card for A. Schuman & Co., clothiers, 440 Washington Street to corner Summer, Boston, Mass., undated

Schuman is a manufacturer, jobber and retailer. The image is captioned "Hammersmith."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244547

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.003

Trade card for the Donnell Clothing Co., clothiers, hatters, furnishers, City Building, Biddeford, Maine, undated

The Donnell Clothing Company is located in the City Building in Biddeford, Maine.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244548

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.004

Trade card for J.L. Harlem, merchant tailor, New Bank Building, corner Main & State Streets, Bridgeport, Connecticut, undated

Harlem carries gentlemen's furnishing goods.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244549

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.005

Trade card for J.L. Harlem, merchant tailor, New Bank Building, corner Main & State Streets, Bridgeport, Connecticut, undated

Harlem, who carries gentlemen's furnishing goods, is located in the New Bank Building in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244550

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.006

Trade card for the Pearl Shirt, Tinkham & Co., Springfield, Mass., 1884

The image caption reads "George, I have just bought six of those Celebrated Pearl Shirts for you." The verso has a calendar for 1884.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244551

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.007

Seal for Sweet, Orr & Co., overalls, pants & shirts, location unknown, undated

The item is a seal for the union made overalls, pants and shirts of Sweet, Orr and Company. The image is captioned "Strictly union made." Underneath the image the text reads "The best made. Ask your dealer for them. See name on the buttons."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244552

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.008

Rabhor Robes, David Heller Co., Claremont, Springfield, Mass., undated

A pamphlet describing the different styles, fabrics and prices of Rabhor Robes available at the David Heller Store for Men.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244553

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.009

Trade card for Leopold Morse & Co., men's boys' and children's clothing, 131 to 137 Washington Street, corner Brattle, Boston, Mass., undated

The card verso contains a guarantee that a garment is made to superior specifications and constructed of pure wool.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244554

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.010

Trade card for Leopold Morse & Co., men's boys' and children's clothing, 131 to 137 Washington Street, corner Brattle, Boston, Mass., undated

The card verso contains a guarantee that a garment is made to superior specifications and constructed of pure wool.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244555

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.011

Trade card for Pearl Shirts, Smith & Manning, Andover, Mass., 1885

Smith & Manning are dealers in general merchandise. The card verso has a calendar for 1885.

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244556

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.012

Trade card for The Peerless Shirts, location unkown, undated

The illustration shows the protective neckband which is part of all The Peerless Shirts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244557

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.013

Trade card for the Old South Clothing House, 315 and 317 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business is opposite the Old South Church on Washington Street. George R. Brine is the manager.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244558

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.014

Trade card for A. Shuman & Company, clothiers, 440 Washington Street to corner Summer, Boston, Mass., undated

The business specializes in ready made custom clothing. The card verso has an illustration to be used in self measuring.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244559

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.015

Trade card for Merchant's Gargling Oil, M.G.O. Co., Lockport, New York and George F. Owen, clothing, 38 Main Street, Saco, Maine, undated

The Merchant's Gargling Oil, established in 1833, is a liniment for people and animals. The card verso advertises George F. Owen with the statement "Gentlemen who pay cash for their clothing save money."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 244560

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.016