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Trade Cards were a huge craze in the 1880s up to maybe 1900. They were small pictures either produced as a form of adverising or cut out from newspapers or magazines and vey often pasted into scrapbooks.
Where the reverse of a card looks interesting I have scanned it.
Title: Victorian Trade Cards
City: London
Date: 1890
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Bird fishing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TradeCards/wm/big/0004-bird-fishing-q67-134x200.jpg "[picture: Bird fishing]")
![[picture: Cartoon: barefoot boy fishing]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TradeCards/wm/big/0005-cartoon-boy-fishing-q75-172x200.jpg "[picture: Cartoon: barefoot boy fishing]")
![[picture: Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade Card]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TradeCards/wm/big/0001-atlantic-and-pacfic-tea-q75-130x200.jpg "[picture: Girl in the window: Atlantic and Pascific Tea Company 1880s Trade Card]")
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...]
[$]![[picture: Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TradeCards/wm/big/0006-bird-smoking-pipe-meets-rabbit-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit]")
Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit
In this somewhat surreal Victorian trade card, or something similar, a bird, perhaps a wild turkey, meets a rabbit (or hare) walking upright on its hind legs down an inpaved road. Theres a wooden white-painted signpost in the background with a carved human face and grass for hair, a pointing hand, and a bird sitting on it. The turkey (if that’s what [...] [more...]
[$]Trade Cards were a huge craze in the 1880s up to maybe 1900. They were small pictures either produced as a form of adverising or cut out from newspapers or magazines and vey often pasted into scrapbooks.
Where the reverse of a card looks interesting I have scanned it.
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![[picture: Back of boy fishing cartoon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-TradeCards/wm/big/0005-cartoon-boy-fishing-reverse-q67-228x200.jpg "[picture: Back of boy fishing cartoon]")
