Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: 1881

A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself and her daughter from the menacing approaches of a giraffe and seal in this nineteenth-century advertising trade card by M. F. Tobin for Hayward's, a dry goods store in New York City. Hayward's 131 Eighth Avenue, bet. 16th & 17th Sts., New York. Silk umbrellas, $1.00 & $1.50 a specialty. Repairing & recovering. Copyrighted 1881, M. F. Tobin, N.Y.

"Backus, the Clothing Row hatter and gent's furnishing goods, 799 Broad St., Newark, N.J."

"Henry Felix & Co., manufacturers and dealers in fine confections, ice cream, cakes, and fruits, 10 N. Market Square, Harrisburg. . . . M. F. Tobin, N.Y. Scheffer, job printer, Harrisburg." A stock Victorian-era advertising trade card produced by New York lithographer M. F. Tobin in 1881. Theodore F. Scheffer, a local Harrisburg printer, added the information for Henry Felix and Company. See below for some other amusing and interesting trade cards.

"Walter S. Welton, dealer in fine boots & shoes, 338 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn. Copyrighted by John Gibson, 1881." A colorful and amusing Victorian-era advertising trade card.

"Philadelphia Carnival, Easter Monday night, April 18th, 1881, at the Academy of Music. A. M. J. Mueller, del. J. H. Camp, litho." An elaborate trade card announcing the Philadelphia Carnival, which was held at the Academy of Music on the day after Easter in 1881.

"Our valentines will be sold at cost to-day Centre aisle (round table). Sharpless & Sons, Philadelphia." A nineteenth-century advertising trade card that announced reduced prices for Valentine's Day cards.

J. Kohn, the leading clothier and hatter, corner First and Morrison Sts., Portland, Oregon.