Trade cards ephemera collection, circa 1880-1900 TC EPH

Jaime Henderson
California Historical Society
June 23, 2016
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
reference@calhist.org


Contributing Institution: California Historical Society
Title: Trade cards ephemera collection
Identifier/Call Number: TC EPH
Physical Description: 6 boxes
Date (inclusive): circa 1880-1900
Language of Material: Collection is primarily in English. A few trade cards are in Spanish.
Abstract: Consists of trade cards advertising a variety of trades, goods, and services. The bulk of the materials are color lithographs dating from 1880-1900. Some of the trades, goods and services advertised include food and beverages, household goods, furniture, clothing, shoes, pharmacies, medicines and tonics.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [File name], Trade cards ephemera collection, California Historical Society.

Related Ephemera Collections

California Business Ephemera Collection

Processing Information

Processed by Jaime Henderson in 2016.

System of Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetcally, first by type of trade depicted in the card and then by name of business or product being advertised.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains trade cards advertising various companies, products or services. The bulk of the cards are color lithographs dating from 1880 - 1900s. Significant trades represented include: clothing and dry goods; food and provisions; medicines and tonics; sewing threads; shoes; and tobacco. There is also a section of blank sample trade cards and trade cards on which a business is advertised but the type of trade is unidentified.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Advertising cards.
California Ephemera Project.
Trade cards.

 

Advertising

 

John W. Roberts & Co.

 

The Whitehead & Hoag Co.

 

Art galleries

 

Cobb's Dore Gallery

 

Art schools

 

Piazzoni's Atelier d'art

 

Art supplies

 

T.J. Bass & Company

 

Auction and commission houses

 

Onstott, I.H.

 

Baths

 

Electro-magnetic Complexion and Vapor Baths

 

Sanitarium Hot & Cold Salt Water Baths

 

Bazaars

 

The Excelsior

 

Canton Bazaar

 

Close, O.H.

 

G.T. Marsh & Company

 

Geo. Vrachliotti's Great Western Bazaar

 

Guttman's Standard Bazaar

 

Harris (J.F.) Bakery and Bazaar

 

Japanese Bazaar

 

Jones' Bazaar

 

Sing Chong Company

 

Beer, liquor, and wine

 

E.J. Baldwin's Pure Grape Brandy (Santa Anita Vineyard)

 

Eclipse Champagne

 

Falk's Milwaukee Bottled Beer

 

Old Jordan

 

Beverages

 

Geyser Water Company

 

Hires Root Beer

 

Roman Spa Natural Mineral Table Water

 

Bicycles

 

Varney, Thomas H.B.

 

Blacksmith supplies

 

Varney, Thomas H.B.

 

Booksellers

 

Bible House

 

Hardy, W.B.

 

Hibbard & Sommer

 

Hofmann, Joseph A.

 

J. Dewing & Co.

 

Kendrick & Co.

 

Mearns, James

 

Stephens & Packard

 

Woodward, G.P.

 

Camping supplies

 

E. Detrick & Co.'s

 

Candy

 

A. Beismann's Fine Confectionery

 

Bacon's Palace of Sweets

 

Blank, C.A.

 

Burton's, L.A.

 

George Haas & Sons

 

Gruenhagen's

 

Hall, A.

 

Hewitt, Fred H. (Candy Palace)

 

Huyler's

 

Parkman, C.E.

 

Roberts' Fine Confections

 

Roberts, G.F.

 

Schreiber's

 

Suchard, Ph.

 

Townsend's California Glace Fruits

 

Walter Backer & Co.'s

 

Canning

 

Fairbank Canning Company

 

Carpet cleaning

 

City Steam Carpet Beating and Renovating Works (H.L. Jones)

 

Pioneer Steam Carpet Beating (J. Spaulding & Co.)

 

Carpets

 

Mackay, Alex.

 

Carriages

 

Carvill Manufacturing Company

 

Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing

 

Circus

 

Sells Brothers Enormous Railroad Shows

 

Clothing and dry goods

 

A.F. Hill & Co.

 

Beamish's

 

Beck Brothers

 

Bell, H.C.

 

Berman, Otto

 

Canfield Dress Shields (Canfield Rubber Company)

 

Caro, S.

 

Colman Brothers

 

Curtin, C. (Grand Dry Goods Store)

 

D.A. Mendenhall & Company

 

D.M. Moran & Co.

 

Doane & Henshelwood

 

Eagleson & Company

 

Eastman Bros. and Bancroft

 

Figel, Joseph

 

G.H. Gerwin & Co.

 

Great Beehive Auction Store

 

Hale Brothers & Company

 

The Hastings

 

Heiman Clothing Company

 

Hess & Irving, Irving & Neustadt

 

Hirshberg, S.

 

J.M. Dyer & Co.

 

J.W. Davidson & Co. (The White House)

 

John Cran & Co.

 

Joseph Brothers

 

Kahn & Sons

 

Kelly Brothers

 

L. Popper's Shirt Factory

 

Ludorff, A.

 

M. Hellman & Co.'s

 

Mack, M.F.

 

Madam McCabe's Sanative Corsets (The St. Louis Corset Company)

 

Mrs. H. Jacobs & Co.

 

Oakland Clothing House (J. Letter)

 

O'Neill & Stuart

 

Pacific Shirt Co.

 

The Red House

 

Schafer and Company

 

Schwartz, M.

 

Thomson's Patent Glove-Fitting Corsets (Freud's Corset House)

 

Williams & Burdick

 

Coal

 

Asmussen, G.

 

Church, S.R.

 

Ebbets, Arthur M.

 

Henderson, John Jr.

 

Middleton, John

 

Pacific Coal & Wood Yard

 

Seattle Coal

 

Star Coal

 

Wellington Coal

 

Coffee and tea

 

A. Schilling & Co.

 

Acme Health Koffy Co.

 

Arbuckle Bros.

 

Cocoa Coffee

 

Eagle Coffee and Spice

 

Globe Tea Company

 

Great American Importing Tea Company

 

Great Scandinavian Tea and Grocery Company

 

Hills Brothers

 

North Star Tea Company

 

Olcovich Brothers

 

Original California Tea Company

 

St. Bernard Herb Tea Company

 

Standard Tea Co.

 

Costumes

 

Jahn & Foster

 

Dairies

 

Manchester Creamery

 

Oakland Cream Depot and Sweet Briar Dairy

 

P.J. McGovern & Co.

 

Quaker Dairy

 

Dry cleaning

 

A. Bertin, Dyer and Cleaner

 

F. Thomas & Company, Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning

 

Pacific Cleaning & Dyeing Works

 

Spaulding's Pacific Dyeing and Cleaning Works

 

Dyes

 

Diamond Dyes

 

Fabric

 

Adams' Linings

 

Fancy goods, lace, embroidery & trimmings

 

Chester, Sharkey & Co.

 

E.F. Sanders & Co.

 

L. & A. Meyer

 

The Lace House

 

M.E. Fairweather

 

Mansbach, E.

 

Mme. D. Deppen

 

Mme. L.E.W. Keyzer

 

Mrs. E.A. DeWolfe

 

Newman & Freud

 

S. Bine

 

Samuel Weitz & Co.

 

Feathers

 

Balny, A.J.

 

The Fashion Flower & Feather Store

 

The Wonder, Flower and Feather Store

 

Florists

 

Duhem, A.

 

Food and provisions

 

A. Schilling & Co. Baking Powder

 

American Biscuit Co.

 

American Condensed Milk Co.

 

B.T. Babbitt's Best Baking Powder

 

Beehive Baking Powder (Washington Manufacturing Co.)

 

Bibo, Newman & Ikenberg Preserves, Jellies and Jams

 

Blanchard's Life Food

 

C.E. Andrews & Co.'s Pearl Pure Cream Tartar Baking Powder

 

California Coralline Milling Co. (Rolio)

 

Central Depot California Cracker Co.

 

Champagne Baking Powder (C.C. Burr & Co.)

 

Chas. Counselman & Co.'s Royal Hams

 

Colima Baking Powder

 

Columbian Evaporated Cream

 

G. Gilbert's Corn Starch

 

Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk (N.Y. Condensed Milk Co.)

 

Germea

 

Golden Gate Compressed Yeast Co.

 

H.J. Heinz Co.

 

J.G. MacDonald's Tea and Cracker Store

 

Lea & Perrins' Sauce

 

Libby, McNeill & Libby's Cooked Corned Beef

 

Mellin's Food

 

Merry, Faull & Company Meat Products and Provisions

 

MJB Pure Food Rice (M.J. Brandenstein & Co.)

 

N.K. Fairbank & Co. (Lard and Cottolene)

 

Niagra Corn Starch

 

Pacific Coast Syrup Co. (Toboggan Brand Maple Syrup)

 

Pacific Cocoanut Company

 

Platt & Cos. Baltimore Oysters

 

Queen Bee Flour

 

Ridge's Food for Infants and Invalids

 

Scotch Oats

 

Southern Baking Powder

 

Standard Biscuit Co.

 

Union Flour Mills

 

Furniture

 

Burr Folding Bed Company

 

California Furniture Manufacturing Company

 

Gilbert & Moore

 

Gross, H.H.

 

Indianapolis Furniture Company

 

J.A. Munro & Co.

 

Pacific Spring and Mattress Co.

 

Robinson's Self-Adjusting Hammock Chair

 

Schellhaas, H.

 

Furrier

 

Lofstad, John N.

 

Glassware

 

Ackerman Brothers

 

Atwater, F.H.

 

Behrns, C.

 

The Famous Crockery & Fancy Goods Co.

 

Potter, F.A.

 

Gloves

 

Keane & Kinnane's

 

The Paris Glove House (Metz & Co.)

 

Unidentified

 

Grocers

 

Bidwell & Cook

 

Blue Front Cash Grocery

 

C.J. Hawley & Co.

 

Garret & Elder

 

German Commercial Co.

 

John L. Williams & Co.

 

Lawrence Bros.

 

Lehmann, C.

 

Newton Brothers & Co.

 

Norton, J.B.

 

Peterson & Palmer

 

Hair products and wigs

 

Ayer's Hair Vigor

 

Goldstein & Cohn

 

Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer

 

Hairdressing

 

Mrs. E.H. Hubbard

 

Hats

 

Adcock's Millinery

 

Bay City Manufacturing Co.

 

Butler, P.F.

 

Herrmann "The Hatter" (C. Herrmann)

 

Jones, R.

 

K. Meussdorffer's Hats and Caps

 

Leon L. Rey, French Hatter

 

M. Meussdorffer's Fine Hats

 

Mrs. Fout's French Millinery

 

The Opera, French Millinery

 

P. Fernandez Hat Bazaar

 

Holidays

 

Miscellaneous

 

Hosiery

 

Seamless Hosiery (S.B. Wilkins Company)

 

Household cleaners

 

Arm & Hammer

 

Bon Ami

 

Enoch Morgan's Sons Sapolio

 

Gilbert S. Graves' Mirror Gloss Starch

 

H.K. & F.B. Thurber & Co.

 

John Horstmann's Lavarine

 

Lustro Company

 

Merten, Moffitt & Co.

 

Professor Tyler's Lightning Cleansing Compound

 

Household goods

 

Adams & Westlake Oil Stoves (J.F. Myers & Co.)

 

Buckeye Stoves

 

Eclipse Wringer Co.

 

Empire Wringer Co.

 

Granite Iron Ware

 

Keystone Wringer Co.

 

The Little Giant Lemon Squeezer

 

Metropolitan Manufacturing Co.

 

Peep o' Day Alarm Clock

 

Universal Clothes Wringer

 

Universal Stoves and Ranges

 

Importers

 

Feigenbaum & Company

 

J.P. O'Toole & Co.

 

Moller & Mautz

 

The Paul Lau Company, The Chinese Shoppe

 

Insecticides

 

Buhach Producing and Manufacturing Company

 

Insurance

 

Brookings, C.C.

 

German American Insurance Co.

 

Liverpool & London & Globe

 

The Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Co.

 

Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.

 

Jewelry and watches

 

Boss' Patent Gold Watch Cases

 

Cohen, D.

 

Crosett & Samuel

 

Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co.

 

Finck, George

 

Keystone Watch Cases

 

Koch, John

 

Uncle Harris'

 

Laundry

 

B.T. Babbitt's Best Potash or Lye

 

Mikado Soap

 

Niagara Gloss Starch

 

Pyle's Pearline

 

Topeka Starch Company

 

Lithographers

 

Linard, B.R.

 

Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co.

 

Medicines and tonics

 

Ayer's medicine and tonics

 

Barry's Tricopherous for Skin and Hair

 

Brown's Iron Bitters

 

Burnett's Floral Hand Book

 

Caloric Vita Oil Co.

 

Clifford's Febrifuge

 

D.D.D. De Haven's Dyspepia Destroyer

 

Dr. Abbey's Great Specific for Skin Diseases

 

Dr. C. Mc Lane's Liver Pills

 

Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water

 

Dr. Jayne's medicines and tonics

 

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

 

Dr. Radcliffe's Seven Seals of Golden Wonder

 

Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil

 

Globe Sugar-coated Pills

 

Hire's Cough Cure

 

Horsford's Acid Phosphate

 

Humphrey's Witch Hazel Oil

 

Hunt's Remedy

 

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

 

Lyon's Kathairon

 

Malt Bitters Company

 

Mason & Pollard's Anti-Malaria Pills

 

McClellan's Fever Remedy, McClellan's Diphtheria and Tennessee Ague Cure

 

Merchant's Gargling Oil

 

Mexican Mustang Liniment

 

Mother Swans Worm Syrup

 

Mystic Drop

 

One Minute Toothache Drops (Hurtzig & Schultze)

 

Oregon Kidney Tea

 

Parker's Tonic

 

Peruvian Bitters

 

Pond's Extract

 

Red Star Cough Cure

 

Redding's Russia Salve

 

Sanitas Grape Food

 

Scott's Emulsion

 

Slaven's California Fruit Salt

 

Stubbs' Big Medicine Bitters

 

Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient

 

Vegetine

 

White's Prairie Flower & German Elixir

 

Wistar's Balsam

 

Mirrors, pictures and frames

 

Dampf & Schussler

 

S. & G. Gump

 

Musical instruments

 

Chickering Pianos

 

Girard

 

Hallet, Davis & Co.'s Pianos

 

Kohler & Chase Pianos & Organs

 

Matthias Gray Co.

 

Model Music Store

 

S. Newman & Company

 

San Francisco Music & Piano Company

 

Steck, Estey, Bradbury & Schwechten Pianos

 

Stockbridge's

 

Tobin, E.M.

 

Opera

 

Kimball Opera-Comique Co.

 

Moore's Opera House

 

Opticians and eyeglasses

 

Celluloid Eyeglasses (Smith, E.F.)

 

Lawrence & Houseworth

 

West, R.

 

Perfume and cologne

 

Alfred Wright's Perfumery Sachet Powder

 

Austen's Forest Flower Cologne

 

Burnett's Cologne Water

 

Eastman's Fine Perfumes

 

Franco-American Perfumery Co.

 

Henry Tetlow's Extracts

 

Hoyt's German Cologne

 

Keil's California Floral Extracts

 

Mellier's Perfumes

 

Murray & Lanman's Florida Water

 

Orange Flower Cologne

 

Peck's Premium Perfumes

 

Seely's Perfumes

 

Slaven's Yosemite Cologne

 

Pharmacies and pharmacists

 

Coffin & Mayhew

 

Daggett, Henry

 

F.L. Bartlett & Co.

 

Fouch, John F.

 

Hyde, W.I.

 

Stockton Pharmacy

 

Merrill, M.C.

 

Wenzell, W.T.

 

Wollweber, Theo.

 

Photography

 

Edward Gagne's Photo Gallery

 

Ehmann

 

George Fiske, Landscape Photographer

 

Lamson, J.H.

 

Morse, G.D.

 

Plumbing

 

Scott, Tom

 

Real estate agents

 

Palermo Land & Water Company (McAfee Brothers, Agents)

 

Will E. Fisher & Co.

 

Restaurants and cafes

 

Bird's Quaker Restaurant

 

Neptune Gardens

 

Tivoli Cafe

 

Roller skating

 

Mission Skating Pavilion

 

Olympian Club Elite Roller Skating Rink

 

Will & Finck

 

Saloons

 

Eite Saloon

 

Sample trade cards

 

Animals

 

Children

 

Flowers

 

Miscellaneous

 

Saws

 

Wyman, J.F.

 

Sewing machines

 

Higham, E.

 

Household Sewing Machine Company

 

Light-Running Domestic

 

New American Sewing Machine

 

New Home Sewing Machine Company

 

Sheldon, Mark

 

Singer Manufacturing Company

 

Standard Sewing Machine Co.

 

Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company

 

The White Sewing Machine

 

Willcox & Gibbs

 

Sewing thread

 

Belding Brothers & Company

 

Brooks Spool Cotton

 

California Silk Manufacturing Company

 

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

 

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

 

Corticelli and Chadwick's

 

Corticelli Spool Silk

 

Eureka Silk

 

Goff's Braid

 

J. & P. Coats

 

John D. Cutter & Co.

 

Semple's Best Six Cord

 

Shoe polish

 

Bon-Ton Polish

 

Frank Miller's Crown Dressing

 

Shoes

 

A.S.T. Co.

 

Arcade Boot & Shoe House

 

Bloomfield, S.

 

Cahn, Nickelsburg & Co.

 

California Boot and Shoe Store

 

Cohnreich Brothers Boots and Shoes

 

Dunne, Edward (Queen Boot and Shoe Store)

 

E. Bernheim & Co.

 

Emerson, D.W.

 

Kast's Shoes

 

Mauzy, S.H.

 

Morgan's Boot, Shoe and Slipper House

 

Nolan Brothers

 

Nolan & Company

 

Nolan, M.D.

 

P.F. Nolan & Sons

 

Porter, Slessinger & Co.

 

Reubold, M.

 

Rosenthal's Fine Shoes

 

Russell's New Store

 

S. Mosgrove & Brothers (Curtis & Wheeler)

 

Star Shoe Store

 

Stuart, D. (Laird, Schober & Mitchell)

 

Thomas M. Harris & Co.

 

W.H. Nolan & Company

 

Wilcox, E.J.

 

Soaps and hygiene products

 

Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. (Vaseline)

 

Dr. Hebra's Viola Cream & Viola Skin Soap

 

Dr. Sheffield's Creme Angelique

 

Fels & Company's Toilet Soaps

 

Hagan's Magnolia Balm

 

Lautz Brothers & Company's Stearine Soap (D.L. Beck & Sons)

 

New England Soap Company

 

Pozzoni's Complexion Powder

 

Rachel's Enamel Bloom

 

Ricksecker's Dentaroma

 

Sozodont Teeth Cleanser

 

Standard Soap Company

 

Wisdom's Robertine

 

Spices and extracts

 

Burnett's Extracts

 

Giant Flavoring Extracts & Ground Spices

 

Liebig Company's Extract of Meat

 

Murphy, Adam H.

 

Nicholson's Flavoring Triple Extracts

 

Paul Rieger's Treble-Extra and Concentrated Flavoring Extracts

 

Sporting goods

 

Will & Finck

 

Stationery

 

Topsy Tablet

 

Tailors

 

Gibbs, A.

 

J.M. Litchfield & Co.

 

Lemos, Leon

 

Mrs. M. Herbert, Fashionable Dressmaker

 

Nicoll the Tailor

 

Poheim, Joe

 

Taxidermy

 

Blunt, W.G.

 

Tiles

 

W.W. Montague & Company

 

Tobacco

 

Drummond Tobacco Company

 

Duke of Durham (W. Duke Sons & Co.)

 

E. Sikes & Co.

 

The Fashion

 

Harris Bros.

 

Horse Head Tobacco (Dausman Tobacco Co.)

 

Jackson's Best (C.A. Jackson & Co.)

 

Ligget & Myers Tobacco Company

 

Lorillard's '49 Cut Plug

 

New Vanity Fair Cigarettes

 

Newsboy Plug Tobacco

 

Pet Cigarettes (Allen & Ginter)

 

Pressed Cigarettes (Allen & Ginter)

 

Sam. Lewis & Co.

 

Sanderson & Horn

Scope and Contents

An article titled "Avenues for White Labor" is printed on the trade cards. The article discusses how Sanderson and Horn's tobacco company has eschewed Chinese labor in favor of white labor.
 

Sutliff (Duke of Durham)

 

Sweet Golden Seal Cigarettes

 

Tansill's Punch 5c. Cigar

 

Unidentified

 

William S. Kimball & Co.'s Cigarettes

 

Toys

 

F.M.L. Peters & Company

 

Feigenbaum & Company

 

Trunks

 

Stockton Trunk Factory

 

Typewriters

 

Smith Premier Typewriter Co.

 

Unidentified trades

 

Booth & Co.

 

C.J. Stevens & Co.

 

Champlin & Williamson

 

John A. Lowell & Co.

 

Loucks & McKendrick

 

M. Levy & Bro.

 

Messersmith, M.J.

 

O.A. Hale & Co.

 

O. Lawton & Co.

 

Raphael's, Inc.

 

Rathjen Bros.

 

S. Rosenthal & Co.

 

Shepard Norwell & Co.

 

Steinhart & Koch

 

Thompson & Beard

 

Wallpaper & window coverings

 

Anderson, A.H.

 

Corliss, W.B.

 

Edwards, Frank G.

 

G.W. Clark & Co.

 

Hartshorn & McPhun

 

Wilson, S.H.