Trade card for Buffaline Universal Insect Killer, location unknown, undated

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Collection Type

Ephemera

GUSN

GUSN-241748

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Agriculture
Fertilizers and repellents
Agriculture - Fertilizers and repellents - Folder 2
Trade card for Buffaline Universal Insect Killer, location unknown, undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Agriculture
    - Fertilizers and repellents
      - Agriculture - Fertilizers and repellents - Folder 2
        Read Fertilizer Co., phosphate fertilizers, Syracuse, New York, undated
        Wheeler and Sheldon, high grade fertilizers made from blood, bone and meat, Rutland, Vermont, 1892
        Chemo for getting rid of moths in warehouses, Chemo Company, Buffalo, New York
        Cheapest spray, Bowker Insecticide Company, 48 Chatham Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        How to make house plants bloom, by Prof. S.T. Maynard, Bowker Fertilizer Co., Boston and New York, 1879
        Trade card for Buffaline Universal Insect Killer, location unknown, undated (current record)
        How to raise good crops on a New England farm, Russia Cement Co., Gloucester, Mass., 1898
        Keystone to success in farming, the liberal use of the Read Fertilizers, Read Fertilizer Co., Syracuse, New York

Description

The head and shoulders of a little girl is shown in the middle of flowers. The card verso has the Boston & Maine Railroad Eastern Division schedule between Boston, Lynn and Revere Beach.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
insecticide
pest control
girls
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card : illustration ; 5 x 3 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.002.04.02.006

Image Dimensions

5 x 3 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Purchased from Gregory Smart, 2000.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Lynn (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Revere (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Other Organizations

Boston and Maine Railroad

Subjects

Insecticides
Insects

Description Level

Item

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