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The Myers Bros. and Co. Trade Card shows a Confederate soldier swapping tobacco with a Union soldier in exchange for a bag of coffee.

In the late 19th century, Quaker Oats produced a series of collectible trade cards featuring lithograph landscapes and scenes from America. These two cards represent several held in the Culinary Ephemera Collection.

An advertising booklet for a patent medicine used to treat indigestion, nervousness, and physical and mental exhaustion. The back describes the medicine as "a tonic for the weak and debilitated."

Garfield Tea (Stillman Remedies Co.) table top advertisement, 1880s, likely c.1885?

At the earliest, this item probably dates to around 1885, four years after the death of James A. Garfield. Produced by Stillman Remedies Co. Garfield Tea was a…

These two trade cards were advertisements for Storey & Bunnell, who shipped oysters around the east coast of the United States in the early 20th century.

An advertisement for bitters used to treat jaundice, weakness of the stomach, and general debility

An advertisement for "Indian Root Pills" depicting a Native man on a horse. The medicine is described as "The great blood purifier."

Questionnaire created by Mark Weber, President of Lambda Horizon, for an independent class project. The questionnaire was distributed to members of Lambda Horizon in order to gauge their level of knowledge about the AIDS virus. Weber planned to…

Being Gay announcement card from Virginia Tech's radio station WUVT. The public service announcement promotes Lambda Hoizon and gay and lesbian life on the campus.

These are a few of the Horford Baking & Phosphate trade cards in the larger Culinary Ephemera Collection.

Scientific American advertisement

<p>Tolu Rock and Rye appears to have a short history of distribution between 1880 and 1881 (possibly a little later) as a patent medicine.</p> <p>Classification of the drink as a medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

While Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil was marketed until the 1940s and 1950s, the particular trade card in this collection most likely dates to the late Victorian era. The Victorian era is a period of time that directly corresponds with the reign of the…

This item is a French board game from the Van Houten Dutch Cocoa company. The rules of the game are based on "Game of the Goose."