Coupon from Lovell’s Amherst Picture Gallery
Amherst (Mass.)
The small double-sided card advertises J. L. Lovell’s Amherst Picture Gallery, and offers $2.00 off photographic processes and prints. These cards would have encouraged residents of Amherst to have their photo taken by Lovell in his downtown studio.
Lovell, John L., 1825-1903
Circa 1889
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Photographs
Advertising card for Diamond Dyes
Dyes and dyeing
Advertising cards
Business cards
Home economics -- Massachusetts
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card distributed by the Amherst pharmacy W. H. H. Morgan around the turn of the century. The illustration is an image of a group of young women being instructed in home economics. On the back is printed the price, the list of colors, and other details about the dye.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1900
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards
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
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
Advertising card for Edgar R. Bennett business in Amherst
Advertising cards
Business cards
Eyeglasses
Amherst (Mass.)
This trade card advertises the optical business which was run by Edgar R. Bennett from sometime in the 1880s through 1903. Bennett was a watchmaker, jeweler, optician, and bicycle agent. His shop was in Merchants' Row on South Pleasant Street.
Circa 1890
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards
Amherst Roller Rink advertising card
Advertising cards
Business cards
Roller skating
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card for the Amherst Roller Rink, a roller-skating establishment which was located in Palmer Hall (today the site of Amherst Town Hall) in the 1880s.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1885
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards
Latest styles in hats advertising card
Advertising cards
Business cards
Hats
Amherst (Mass.)
Trade card advertising the Amherst business of J. M. Waite & Son, a hatter and outfitter for gentlemen, whose establishment was located in Cook's Block, Phoenix Row, in the late 1880s.
Jones Library Special Collections
Circa 1886
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Cards
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards
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
Folder: Amherst -- Trade cards