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"Dear Sir:--Below find to-day's value of Grass, Clover and other Seeds…."

Includes calendar for 1870. "Get your Neighbor to Subscribe."

Receipt for payment for subscription to the Connecticut Courant

One card with Oriental design

Card advertising Lactart (acid of milk) featuring a milkmaid

One card featuring jockeys riding rabbits

One card featuring jockeys riding rabbits

Seven cards with 1881 calendars on the back

Note on back "Went out of business 6/77"

"Jobbing of all kinds a specialty…. Door and window screens made and put up at short notice."

"Emphatically the best and most beautiful Lawn Mower in the World."

Business card of Graham H. Hoagland

"Ask for Fruit Tablets M'f'd by E. J. Hoadley, Hartford, Conn."

Postcard with a view of the storefront

Six cards with five different designs: "Fine Custom Goods a Specialty"

Four different designs

Business card of Samuel Hollander

"Fine Custom Work A Specialty"

"Also a Fine Assortment of Jewelry."

Thomas F. Horan, Mary Margaret Horan, Proprietors. "Expressing Your Thoughtfulness With Flowers, Plants, Fruit and Gifts since 1909."

Three cards with oriental subjects: "The Caravan," "Suleiman Pasha," "Arabian Mail Carrier."

Seven cards with humorous subjects

Two cards. "A Select Stock of Embroideries, Laces, Zephyr Worsteds, Hosiery, Cambric and Muslin Corsets, Edgings and Insertions, Scarfs, Collars, Sleeves, Sets, &c."

"We take pleasure in announcing our Spring Opening of Fine Tailor Made Clothing and Overcoats."

Two postcards with view of "Old Newgate" Prison, one printed in green, the other in black

"The Smart Stein-Bloch Clothing."

"Shawls, Silks, Satins, Bombazines, Alpacas, &c."

"Order your fuel before you are out of it--Any day storms may slow up deliveries."

Three designs featuring women printed in green on gold backgrounds

Seven different designs

Three different designs. "Our Team: W. C. Burpee, J. D. Darling, E. S. Kendall, F. W. Kendall, C.V. Cornish."

"Schooltime is at hand. Wouldn't you better decide now to enter Huntsinger's?"

Two different designs

Three cards with portraits of Presidents. Partners are Charles F. Hurd and Moses Mellen.

Business card of Robert L. Edwards, Minister Emeritus. Edwards retired in 1980.

Store opened in 1904

Business card of Robert E. Hanson

Two different designs, one with frogs holding a balloon, the other with a stork and snake

Business card of Karen McCredie, Catering Sales Manager

Two different winter scenes

One humorous design featuring small boys

W. M. Johnson and H. C. Ransom, Proprietors

One floral design

Partners are R. M. Jones and H. B. Little. "Gear Patterns and Cogging, Wood Turning, Scroll Sawing, and Shop Jobbing."

"Hartford's only second-hand bookstore."

"Don't send your friends trashy, cheap valentines, but send them something that will make their good opinion of you last a long time. Send them a nice piece of jewelry."

Two different designs

"Give us a Call before you Purchase."

Partners are Robert H. Kellogg and Hiram Buckingham

One floral design

Partners are E. N. Kellogg, Austin Dunham, and A. C. Dunham

"W. Bromley Keeney, with Kellogg, Douglas & Seidler."

"Pure No. 1 Pervian Guano; Coe's Super Phosphate of Lime; Pure Bone Dust; Land Plaster; Genuine Lodi Poudrette; Castor Pummace; Ag'l Lime; Fish Guano."

"Hub" Clothing House

"Cutlery, Steel, Nails, and Shovels, also, Agents for the Sale of Domestic Hardware, Brass Wire, Sheet Brass, Malleable Iron, Collins Axes, Miscellaneous Tools, &c. &c."

Card features portraits of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey

Two images of boys in uniform

One design featuring a naked child

Book with 1926 and 1927 calendars, maps, and "useful information."

Headquarters for the 'Good News' Portable Range."

One floral design

"All Kinds of Carriages and Wheel Work, from the Connecticut Oak & Hickory."

"Teeth? Full Set $5.50."

Proprietors are K. C. Kingsley and H. G. O. Miller

"Goodrich Hi-Press Rubber Footwear for Fishermen."

One Japanese design

"A Single Source for all your Paperbacks."

Brochure listing brands of whiskey and other liquor available at 222, 224 and 226 State Street, but owner's name does not appear. J. G. Lane had a liquor license for this address in the early 1900s.

On verso "Wm. F. Whittelsey / Salesman"

Three different floral designs

Image depicts the Main Exhibition Building at the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia.

"Perfected Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, Opera Glasses, Optical Instruments and Drawing Materials."

Dealers in Pharmaceutical Preparations, Toilet Articles, Wines for Medicinal Use, Mineral Waters, Etc.

Three different floral designs

Dealers in Pharmaceutical Preparations, Toilet Articles, Wines for Medicinal Use, Mineral Waters, Etc.

Three different floral designs

"Motor repairs delivered when Promised. Used Motors Bought Sold and Rented. Industrial Electrical Repairs."

Two different floral designs

"Ensign's Old Stand." Proprietors are Henry Lewis and John Alexander.

Business card of Julie Stone, Director

Performers include George Wright, James Finley, John Mackey, Jack Barry, and Jack Russell.

"First-Class Help Furnished, Both Male and Female…."

"Choice Butter and Fresh Eggs a Specialty."

"Climax Mowing Machine Oil, for Mowers, Threshers, Reapers, &c., Little Giant Lubricator for Lawn Mowers, Fine Engine Oils, Light and Dark Axle Oils, Harness Oil."

Partners are C. A. Lovell and S. G. Tracy. Successors to C. A. Lovell and Company.

Image depicts the Main Exhibition Building at the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia.

View of Hartford skyline

Postcard advertising an exhibition of Limoges Boxes at store in West Hartford

Advertisement on back of Bushnell Memorial Hall ticket envelope

Business card of Lana Tan Lee

"Established 1841. Incorporated 1879. Telephone 21-2."

"Inventor and Manufacturer of the 'Simplicity' Sofa and Lounge Bed."

One card depicting a boy with a basket and a flowering branch

"Established 1841. Incorporated 1879. Telephone 21-2."

Business card of Raymond J. Manzi. "Catering with Elegance."

Partners are F. A. Marcy and C. W. Haynes

"Money to Loan on First and Second Mortgages in Sums and Terms to Suit Patrons."

"Nearest Drug Store to Union Depot."

"Will furnish Newells, Balusters, Screws, and Rails wrought and un-wrought of the different kinds of wood and send to any part of the country."