Keeping you posted, front page news for your customers! feature Squirrel Peanuts and profit today! The Boston Post, Boston, Mass., undated

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GUSN

GUSN-287575

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Food
Peanuts and Peanut Candy
Food - Peanuts and Peanut Candy - Folder 1
Keeping you posted, front page news for your customers! feature Squirrel Peanuts and profit today! The Boston Post, Boston, Mass., undated
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Food
    - Peanuts and Peanut Candy
      - Food - Peanuts and Peanut Candy - Folder 1
        Squirrel label, Squirrel Brand Co., salted peanuts, 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Letterheads, Squirrel Brand Co., salted peanuts, 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Personal story of Mr. Peanut, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Planters Nut & Chocolate Company, Planters Nut & Chocolate Company, Suffolk, Virginia, 1956
        Peanut grades guide, James E. Wood & Company, peanut brokers, Edenton, North Carolina, March 1, 1955
        Ask for Squirrel Brand Nuts, Nut Candies, Salted Peanuts, Peanut Butter, Squirrel Brand Co., 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Squirrel sample package 10 cents, Squirrel Brand Co., 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Fountain sale nut bowl sundae and take the nut bowl with you!, location unknown, undated
        Label for Squirrel Brand Co., Squirrel Brand Co., 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Envelope for Squirrel Brand Co., 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Nut caramels 1 cent each, trade card, Squirrel Brand Co., 10-12 Boardman Street, Cambridge, Mass., undated
        Keeping you posted, front page news for your customers! feature Squirrel Peanuts and profit today! The Boston Post, Boston, Mass., undated (current record)

Description

Customers are urged to feature Squirrel Brand Salted Peanuts like those "advertised in The Boston Post, New England's largest daily newspaper."

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
food
candy
newspapers
postcards

Physical Description

5 postcards : illustration ; 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.045.10.01.011

Image Dimensions

3 1/4 x 5 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Cambridge Historical Commission, February 8, 2001.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Squirrel Brand Company

Material Type

postcards

Subjects

Peanuts
Squirrels
Boardman Street (Cambridge, Mass.)

Description Level

Item

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