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Writ requiring payment of $340.98 to Beach & Ward by Norman Butler

Published by Memorabilia, 10 Evergreen Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. Photographs are from the Library of Congress.

"Hartford's Largest and Most Popular Café."

"With F. M. Warren"

Two-sided puzzle card: "Every Universal Clothes Wringer is Warranted."

One floral design

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 Silo Man, Representing The B. L. Bragg Co. Springfield, Mass."

"Hollow Ware of Every Description. Also, Jobbing in Gold and Silver Plating."

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

Two different designs, one inscribed "Buy War Bonds and Stamps."

Card with girl, harp and shamrocks advertising Estey Organ Co.

Seventeen designs advertising Decker, Fischer, Sohmer, and Steinway pianos

Image of women in an interior with a Decker Brothers piano

One cut-out and embossed card featuring three boys with coffee cups

"Practical Book Binders and Fist Class Blank Book Manufacturers."

William H. Post, E. S. Yergason, Proprietors. "Artistic and Modern House Furnishings A Specialty."

Two different designs featuring sea shells.

Carte-de-visite with photograph of 403-407 Main Street; also includes advertising for T. Steele and Son, Importers and Jewelers.

"If those so-called Food Coffees don't agree with you, try Boardman's 'Gold Star' Coffee and get the Genuine Article."

Three designs featuring Japanese children and animals

"Glycerole for Oiling & Dressing Ladies' Shoes."

"Repairing Promptly Done."

Two different designs, one a cut-out in the shape of a standing bear

Two different designs

"Our Mamas All Have a 'Hartford' Sewing Machine." Printed by The Kellogg & Bulkeley Company, Hartford.

Two humorous designs copyrighted by the Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit in 1881.

Advertisements for Pond's Extract products on front and back of card

J. Earle Duley, Proprietor

"Finishing for Amateurs" "Bromide Enlargments of all Sizes"

One comic design with Perry's name and address added using a rubber stamp

D. A. Rood, Proprietor. "The Largest and most Centrally Located Hotel in the City."

Partners are Thomas Steele and Thomas S. Steele

"Detroit White Lead Works' Ready-Mixed, Varnish Gloss, Carriage Paints."

"Orders taken and delivered in any part of the city."

Includes calendar for 1887

"Stone Cameos from Life, cut to order and mounted."

Three different floral designs. A. W. Lang, Printer, Hartford.

Three different floral designs. A. W. Lang, Printer, Hartford.

One comic design, "Quack Doctor," printed by Bufford, Boston.

"Hot Meals at All Hours 25 Cents." "Formerly Green's Restaurant>"

"New and Second Hand Goods…. Money to Lend on the above and other personal property…."

"American and foreign monuments of various designs"

Two cards with view of Mount Hood, Oregon, with Clark's name and address added with a rubber stamp in different locations

Alfred A. Pocock, Proprietor. "Will Open May 1."

Partners are Roderick Terry and E. S. Munson

"Cut Flowers and Floral Designs."

"Inventor and Only Manufacturer of Spider Web Wigs."

Two different designs featuring chimney sweeps

One card with picture of "Little Red Riding Hood."

Six cards advertising Williams' Root Beer Extract and Williams' Root Beer, "The Great Family Drink." Three cards printed by The Kellogg & Bulkeley Co., Hartford

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."

Two copies of card depicting a boy and a girl on roller skates. One copy stamped "Jas. Mooney & Co. / Bangor, Me."

"Dealers in Birthday, Easter and Business Cards."

One design featuring butterflies

Twelve cards representing the twelve months. Text in French.

Six cards depicting dancing children in costume entitled "Bal d'Enfant."

Six cards, with four different designs depicting costumed frogs

Five cards featuring children

Two different designs "Gems of the Seaside" and "Whoa Emma" featuring silhouettes.

Partners are Julius L. Strong (Late of Welles & Strong) and James Nichols

"Visit the Toboggan Slide at No. 78 Wethersfield Ave."

Four different humorous designs featuring children and animals

One miniature card featuring the flag of Arabia

"Two different floral cards: "Hot Meals at All Hours 25 Cents."

"Successors to Henry W. Katzenberg." Partners are A. Stern and J. Mandelbaum

Partners are Myer Stern and Henry Hartstall.

"Foreign and Domestic Fruit, Wood and Willow Ware, Bird Cages of All Descriptions and Styles, Pickles, Preserves, Olive Oil, Sardines, English and French Mustards, Castile Soap, Choice Havana and Principe Cigars."

"Agent for Decker Bros. Pianos and Wilcox & White Organs"

Two copies. Includes price list

"S. B. & P. have a most extensive assortment of Patterns and manufacture to order, at short notice, almost any description of Castings in common use."

Two copies of card depicting a girl feeding tea to a Newfoundland dog

"Poultry and Game a Specialty."

N[ancy] J. Coyle, Proprietor. Trade card and envelope with return address.

"L. E. Church with S. I. Freeman, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Ready Made Clothing." 2 copies.

"The People are Pleased with What They Buy at Freeman's Clothing Bazaar…" Two different comic designs.

"Finest Clothing at the Lowest Prices"

"All Ready for the Fall & Winter Campaign!"

One floral design

"For Sore Throat, Blisters, Burns, Wounds, Piles, Inflammation, Neuralgia &c. use Risley's Extract of Witch Hazel."

Printed by Bufford, Boston.

Two different designs with winged children and butterflies

Four different cards shaped like artists' palettes. Schall's name is virtually illegible.

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

"Call and see what a dollar will buy." Card with photograph: "Learning A.B.C."

Two copies of card featuring butterflies. "A full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines and Necessities, at Lowest Prices."

Advertisement on back of carte-de-visite photograph of a woman: "We also present free of charge with each and every Dollar's worth of goods bought of us, an elegant Chromo, Engraving or Lithorgraph, which retails from 50 Cents to $1.50."

"Also a Fine Assortment of Jewelry."

Lester S. Hills, Proprietor. "Renovated, Refitted and Refurnished… Fine Billiard Hall in the House."

"I bought my spectacles of R. S. Eldridge." Two designs featuring cats wearing eyeglasses