Box 10

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains different forms of printed paper items produced by Hartford businesses beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the present. Many types of ephemera, such as trade cards and catalogs, functioned solely as advertising. Others, such as bookmarks, calendars, and blank books, might serve a useful purpose as well as providing advertising for a firm. Much of the ephemera, especially the earliest items, were printed locally by Hartford’s many printing firms. Later items...

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One floral design

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Address "395 Main Street" is printed on card, but it is stamped "Removed to 333 Main Street, Hills Block."

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains different forms of printed paper items produced by Hartford businesses beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the present. Many types of ephemera, such as trade cards and catalogs, functioned solely as advertising. Others, such as bookmarks, calendars, and blank books, might serve a useful purpose as well as providing advertising for a firm. Much of the ephemera, especially the earliest items, were printed locally by Hartford’s many printing firms. Later items...

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Postcard features a rebus: "Can You Solve It? Bring us a correct solution… and receive a useful present…"

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Manuscript calculations on back

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When held to light, cards reveal advertisement for "Union Club Coffee."

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"For Sore Throat, Blisters, Burns, Wounds, Piles, Inflammation, Neuralgia &c. use Risley's Extract of Witch Hazel."

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Business card of Bill Lear

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One floral design