Advertising card for Warner Brothers Coraline Corset
Advertising cards
Business cards
Corsets -- History
Women's Clothing -- History -- 19th Century
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card distributed by <a title="H. B. Edwards & Co. storefront" href="../../../items/show/124">H. B. Edwards & Co.</a>, an Amherst clothing store that operated in Merchants' Row from the 1880's to about 1915. The store specialized in ladies' fine underwear. The advertisement is for Warner Brothers Coraline Corsets, introduced in 1881. Coraline was a new stiffening agent that was much more flexible (and comfortable) than horn, reed, or whalebone, materials that were commonly used in corsets.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1885
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards
Amherst Record Home Almanac
Almanacs, American
Yearbooks
Calendars
Amherst (Mass.)
Almanac "containing matters of local interest, local business announcements...also some pages of miscellaneous reading." Includes a chronology of notable events (both local and national) for 1876, Amherst marriages and deaths for the year, statistics of marriages, births and deaths for each year between 1810 to 1819, and 1866 to 1875, population statistics for different years, information about town officers, clubs and organizations, churches, schools (including teachers and number of students). Calendar showing sun rise and set, and moon rise is printed along with quaint sayings, poetry, etiquette for different occasions, types of wedding anniversaries, toasts and sentiments, and other miscellanea. Interesting drawings appear on many pages.
McCloud, H. M. (Henry Martyn), b. 1838
Jones Library Special Collections
1877
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Books
Amherst Imprints 1877
Cat-astrophe advertising card
Advertising cards
Business cards
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card advertising the Amherst business of F. H. Howes, a grocer located in Merchants' Row in the 1880s. The cartoon on the card illustrates Victorian humor.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1885
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Cards
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Robert Francis on humor in his poetry
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987
Amherst (Mass.)
American poetry
Amherst poet Robert Francis responds to the question, "How important is humor to your poems?" and talks about how poetry and humor are closely related as both surprise you with unexpected combinations.
Fain Gildea (writer/producer), David Skillicorn (videographer)
Jones Library Special Collections
1979
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from the Robert Francis Collection
English
Motion pictures
We won't go home until morning! advertising card
Advertising cards
Business cards
Liquors
Advertising -- Comic art paraphernalia
Amherst (Mass.)
Advertising card for the business of F. H. Howe, a grocer located in Merchants' Row in Amherst in the 1880s. The cartoon on the card shows a drunk monkey and illustrates Victorian humor.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1885
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards