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Reverse of A & P trade card Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

The back ofthis trade cardlists 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 [...]

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Added: 2018-01-13

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Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade Card Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

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 w [...]

Keywords: people, girls, advertisements, colour, trade cards, plants, victoriana

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Added: 2018-01-13

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Bird fishing Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this 1880s trade card there’s a group of creatures at a pond. In the foreground stands a long-necked bird, a crane, wearing a hat with feathers and carrying a leather satchel. The ird has caught a [...]

Keywords: trade cards, birds, cranes, frogs, butterflies, btterfly nets, colour, victoriana, monkeys, ponds, water

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Cartoon: barefoot boy fishing Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

A boy wearing a broad-brimmed sun-hat, a shirt, ragged breeches held up with suspenders, and who has bare feet, stands on a rock by a river and holds a fishing rod.A well-dressed and carefully-manicur [...]

Keywords: cartoons, humour, people, boys, fishing, men, bare feet, drawings, water, rivers, outdoors, greyscale

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Added: 2018-01-13

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Back of boy fishing cartoon Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

I scanned this, the reverse side of a cartoon about a boy fishing, because the typography somewhat dates the cartoon.There is part of an advert for Dry & Fancy [Goods], groceries, clothing, boots, hat [...]

Keywords: typography, fonts, advertisements, lettering, colour

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Added: 2018-01-13

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Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

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 whit [...]

Keywords: trade cards, animals, signposts, walking sticks, birds, rabbits, costumes, surreal art, illustrations for children, smoking, pipes, travel, chance meetings, colour

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Added: 2018-08-09

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