Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - His First Lesson -
Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - His First Lesson -
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Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - His First Lesson -
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Newton Free Library trade card collection - Note Title from container. Handwritten title on CD-ROM: Trade cards database. Bound in mylar sleeves in three boxes. A collection of trade cards. - In the late 1800's advanced industrial technology meant major reduction in the cost of printing and producing advertising. Trade cards were given away by shopkeepers with the purchase of a product. Consumers collected trade cards, accumulating them in scrapbooks or boxes. This collection of Newton, Mass. company cards was donated to the Newton Free Library - Text on front: "His First Lesson", 444 Copyrighted, Bufford Boston, Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels at City Hall, Wednesday, Dec. 21st, 1881. Text on verso: Tickets may be obtained of members and at the following places: J. W. Davis' Store - Auburndale, Ingraham's Apothecary Story - West Newton, Gaudelet's - Newtonville, Hudson's - Newton, On and after December 12th. - Produced by J. H. Bufford's Sons, Manufacturing Publishers of Novelties in Fine Arts, 141-147 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. - Cartoon of novice rower underwater straddling capsized scull with only his legs and one arm above water. Two men and dog on dock, another rower with scull and sailboats in background -
