1996.270.001

This is a scrapbook containing several pages of trade cards from a variety of businesses that operated in Lawrence around the 1920s. These cards depict situations in which a product of the business would be used, humorous images or delightful little drawings used to indicate what the business was and what it sold. Each card has the address of the business and its name, but aside from these similarities every card pasted into this scrapbook is unique to the business. Some examples include The Mead and Mash Hairdressers on 10 Lawrence Street, Weber Confectioners on 25 Temple Place and R. Preston and Co. Clothing Company on 196 Essex Street. One particular company, Day and Martin shoeshine, even has a few trade cards in this book that tell a short story about the product, and the cards continue this story in a set, urging the reader to collect them all.

Small, blue, hardcover scrapbook with a silver eagle etched into the front cover

Spine is ragged and fragile, some pages are ripping at the seam, some cards are falling out or have already