Advertising and Trade Cards

Chicago History Museum, Abakanowicz Research Center
1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038
http://www.chicagohistory.org/Research

To search or view this collection in person, visit the Abakanowicz Research Center. Use a blue call slip to request items. Call number: HF5851 .A4 OVERSIZE, specify box number.

Some items in this collection have been digitized. Visit Images.chicagohistory.org and search for “trade cards” to view a selection.

This list was transcribed from an inventory of the folder headings within each box, 1/12/2024.

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Box 1:

- Agricultural implements

- Amusements (see also: Holidays; Sports; Transportation)

- Art dealers, artists, and decorators

- Awnings and cordage

- Banks

- Barber shops and beauty shops (see also: Hair works)

- Barrels

- Beauty shops, see: Barber shops and beauty shops

- Beverages (see also: Coffee and tea)

- Books, see: Stationers and printers

- Brokers, commission merchants, etc.

- Builders, stone masons

- Building fixtures (doors, fireplaces, floors, etc.)

- Building materials

Box 2:

- Candy, see: Confectioners

- Carriages, see: Transportation

- China, see: Pottery, China, and glassware

- Christmas greetings, see: Holidays

- Cigarettes, see: Tobacco and tobacconists

- Cleaning (not laundry)

- Clocks and watches, see: Jewelry, watches, and silverware

- Clothes pins, see: Laundry

- Coal, see: Fuel

- Coffee and tea

- Colleges, see: Schools

- Cologne, see: Perfume

- Confectioners

- Corsets, see: Clothing

- Cosmetics

- Cream, see: Dairy products

- Dairy products

- Decorations, see: Art dealers

- Dentists and doctors

- Dressmaking, see: Clothing

- Drugs

Boxes 3 and 4

- Clothing: general

- Clothing: specific

Box 5

- Dry goods (see also: Clothing; Fancy goods, novelties)

- Dyes

- Embroidery, see: Threads and needles

- Employment agencies

- Fancy goods, novelties

- Firemen

Box 6

- Florists, nurseries, and seeds

- Foods (except: Beverages; Coffee and tea; Confections; Dairy products; Meat)

- Fuel

- Furniture

- Glasses, see: Optical goods

- Glassware, see: Pottery, China, and glassware

- Greeting cards, see: Holidays

- Groceries, see: Beverages; Coffee and tea; Confections; Dairy products; Foods; Meat

- Guns

- Hair ornaments, see: Hair work

- Hair work

- Hammocks

- Harness, see: Leather goods

- Hats, see: Clothing

- Holidays (see also: Amusements)

- Hotels, restaurants, and taverns

- Insurance

- Jewelry, watches, and silverware

- Kegs, see: Barrels

- Lumps and lighting fixtures

- Laundry

- Lawn mowers

- Lawyers

Box 7

- Leather goods

- Liquor, see: Beverages

- Lithography and lithographers

- Luggage, see: Leather goods

- Lumber

- Machinery

- Magazines, see: Newspapers and periodicals

- Meat and meat products

- Metalwork

- Milk, see: Dairy products

- Millinery, see: Clothing

- Miscellaneous, no firm, no product

- Museums, see: Amusements

- Medical instruments

- Needles, see: Thread and needles

- New year’s greetings, see: Holidays

- Newspapers and periodicals

- Notions, see: Fancy goods and novelties; Toys

- Nurseries, see: Florists, nurseries, and seeds

Box 8

- Oil, see: Fuel; Paints, oils, etc.

- Optical goods

- Organs, see: Musical instruments

- Paints, oils, etc. (see also: Fuel)

- Patent medicines

- Perfumes

- Periodicals, see: Newspapers and periodicals

- Pharmacists

- Photographers

- Pianos, see: Musical instruments

- Plumbing and pipefitting

- Policemen

- Pottery, China, and glassware

- Presidents

- Printers, see: Stationers, printers, etc.

- Railroads, see: Transportation

- Real estate agents

- Restaurants, see: Hotels, restaurants, and taverns

- Scales

- Schools

- Seeds, see: Florists, nurseries, and seeds

- Sewing machines

- Ships, see: Transportation

- Shoes, see: Clothing

- Silverware, see: Jewelry, watches, and silverware

- Soaps

Box 9

- Spectacles, see: Optical goods

- Sports

- Starch

- Stationers, printers, etc. (see also: Newspapers and periodicals)

- Stenographers

- Stoves

Box 10

- Tailors, see: Clothing

- Taverns, see: Hotels, restaurants, and taverns

- Tea, see: Coffee and tea

- Theaters, see: Amusements

- Threads and needles

- Tobacco and tobacconists

- Toilet water, see: Perfume

- Toys (see also: Fancy goods and novelties)

- Transportation (see also: Fuel)

- Typewriters

- Umbrellas

- Undertakers

- Universities, see: Schools

- Washing machines, see: Laundry

- Wire

- Wood, see: Fuel

- Wringers, see: Laundry