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Jas. S Kirk & Comp’y, : soapmakers-perfumers-chemists

Description: Image of an advertisement for James S. Kirk & Company; four vignettes and views surround central view of boats in a harbor lined with factories: one of Native Americans in canoes on water, in upper left corner; one of a burning cityscape, in upper right corner; one of a woman with a Roman fasces, American flag, and bald eagle in the upper center; and one of the Chicago, Illinois, lake shore with boats in Lake Michigan, bottom half; front and back of a medal won the Cotton Centennial Exposition at center; six small images of card giveaway examples along the bottom showing children, war scenes, a waterfront, and pets.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_HHD_000594
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A. Hawley & Co. Perfumers and chemists

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Image of an advertisement for perfumed toiletry products sold by A. Hawley & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; list of soaps, lotions, extracts, toothpastes, and other products with descriptions surrounded by an elaborate floral border with women and fauns; A. Hawley & Co. "A.H.&Co." monogram at bottom center.

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Rand, McNally & Co.'s California

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Image of a map of California with railroad routes shown; inset in the bottom left corner of Southern California from Los Angeles to San Diego and an inset in the upper right corner of the San Francisco area; reference key for 37 railroads printed in red and titled "California Railroads." A key of "California. / Chief Cities" with populations printed in left margin.

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Great Lake Shore route : No ferries! No delays! The fastest limited trains in the world run via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and New-York Central & Hudson River R.R

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Image of a broadside with promotional descriptions and timetables for the Lake Shore Route with a wood-engraved image in the upper center of two steam locomotive trains labeled "Lake Shore & Michn. Southn." and one with the number "317" on its firebox door, passing on tracks, with a waterscape view of boats, shoreline, lighthouse, and clouds with lightning in the background, and onlookers waving to the train in the lower right.

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White Russian soap Jas. S. Kirk & Co

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Image of an advertisement for White Russian Soap sold by Jas. S. Kirk & Company of Chicago, Illinois; bear in circular frame at top left with decorative text and borders.

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The squirrel hunter's discharge

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Image of a Squirrel Hunter's honorable discharge certificate illustrated with a scene of a river bank with an older civilian with a pack holding a rifle, a squirrel on a tree branch, and an American flag laid over the ground; vignettes of bust-length portraits of Major General Irvin McDowell, in the upper left corner, and Ohio Governor David Tod, in the upper right corner; seal of the state of Ohio in the lower center.

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Mallory S. S. Lines to Texas and Florida

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Image of a curtain pushed aside next to an open porthole window with a steamship and a sailboat sailing at night under a moonlit sky visible outside; palms and foliage at bottom left; compass and other navigational tools at bottom right; image of a steamship sailing at sunset inset in oval frame captioned, "Mallory S.S. Lines." at bottom center.

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Jas. S Kirk & Comp’y, : soapmakers-perfumers-chemists

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