Victorian Trade Cards (page 1/2)

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Back of boy fishing cartoon

I scanned this, the reverse side of a cartoon about a boy fishing, because the typography somewhat dates the cartoon. [more...] [$]

Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit

In this somewhat surreal Victorian trade card, or something similar, a bird, perhaps a wild turkey, meets a rabbit (or hare) walking upright on its hind legs down an inpaved road. Theres a wooden white-painted signpost in the background with a carved human face and grass for hair, a pointing hand, and a bird sitting on it. The turkey (if that’s what it is) in the foreground leans on a cane or walking-stick, has a backpack and wears a top hat with a circular broach fastened to the top of it, has a maltese cross, and round one raised leg an [more...] [$]

Bird fishing

In this 1880s trade card there’s a group of creatures at a pond. In the foreground stands a long-necked [more...] [$]

Reverse of A & P trade card

The back of this trade card lists all of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.’s branch houses in the USA. By 1925 there were 14,000 stores and by 1937 A&P opened its first supermarket; it’s still one of the largest grocery store operators in Norh America. But at the time of this trade card there were only approximately 110 branch houses. Chicago branches are mentioned, [...] [more...] [$]

Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade Card

This trade card from the 1880s was made as an advert for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. It features a girl in a blue and white dress with blue ribbons in her hair resting her elobows on [...] [more...] [$]