Three cards advertising Williams' Blood Purifier. "If you do not feel absolutely well and strong, you should take Williams' Blood Purifier immediately…. "
Three cards advertising Williams' New England Cough Remedy. "It is very pleasant to take, contains no opium in any form and is perfectly harmless, and at the same time very effectual in 'breaking up' Colds and Coughs."
Six cards advertising Williams' Root Beer Extract and Williams' Root Beer, "The Great Family Drink." Three cards printed by The Kellogg & Bulkeley Co., Hartford
Postcard with picture of a bottle of Root Beer Extract. Card is adddressed to E. C. Dickenson Company in Essex, Connecticut and is an order for birch oil.
Postcard advertising "A. Woollcott: His Life and His World." "Due to wartime paper difficulties, our supply of this book will be limited for some time."
1867 calendar on the back. "Builders of Engines in the U.S. Steam Sloops of War 'Mohican', 'Kearsarge', 'Piscataqua', 'Minnesota', and 'Manitou'; and the U. S. Gunboats 'Cayuga', 'Pequot' and 'Nipsic…"
The collection includes billheads, letterheads, calendars, paper bags and boxes, trade cards and other forms of printed matter documenting Hartford businesses, including banks, insurance companies, and stores, from the mid-nineteenth century through the present day.