Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - The End of the Race, A Put Up Job -
Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - The End of the Race, A Put Up Job -
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Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Newton Boat Club Amateur Minstrels - The End of the Race, A Put Up Job -
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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: "The End of the Race, A Put Up Job" 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. - Cartoon of two rowers flying in the air as their two sculls collide and break up. In background committee boat with five men, shore, sailboat, buoy -
