Click image to enlarge. Established in the 1830s in Massachusetts, the Florence Knitting Mills were a division of the Nonotuck Silk Company. The company was known to produce a number of instructional books which were meant to explain how to use their knitting silk to create articles of clothing. Like most companies of the time, the Florence Knitting Mills produced trade cards--just like the one pictured above--and, like most American cards, there’s nothing printed on the reverse. The obverse simply shows an attractive image with the company’s slogan: “FLORENCE, THE SOFT FINISH, PEERLESS KNITTING SILK.” Pictured is a bespectacled woman who appears to be making a red glove. Meanwhile, her cat (soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur) has stolen some of her Florence Knitting Silk—presumably from the inset picture of the product—to use for his own feline purposes. I'd place this as having been printed around 1885.

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

Lautz Bros. & Co. (Manufacturers)

Ελένη Τομπέα-Οι κάρτες -καρτ ποστάλ- του Γάλλου καλλιτέχνη Albert Bergeret από το 1902, είχαν τίτλο "Οι γυναίκες του μέλλοντος". Ο

File name: 10_03_001412a Binder label: Pianos/Organs Title: The Estey Phonorium. (front) Created/Published: Forbes Co. Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 8 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Women; Organs Notes: Title from item. Statement of responsibility: Estey Organs Works Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions.

Liebig's Beef Extract "Famous Women of Ancient Times" Dutch issue, 1897. Carthage ~ "Salammbo"

Liebig's Beef Extract "Precious Stones" Belgian issue, 1893. Diamond

Van Houten's Cocoa and Chocolate (Netherlands) c1900

Liebig's Beef Extract "Constellations" Italian issue, 1903. Ursa Minor, the Little Bear & Polaris, the North Star

Singer Sewing Machine Trade Cards featuring British Birds.

___________________________________________ page originally published on 29 June 2012: latest edit: 29 November 2021 (below) Excerpts from A History of African American Theatre by Errol G. Hill, Ja…

Liebig's Beef Extract "Constellations" Italian issue, 1903. Pleiades, the Seven Sisters

The lag time between our imagining of social equality and its arrival can be significantly long indeed, or it least it can seem so, given the limitations of human mortality. 113 years may not be an especially long time for a tree, say, or even a very healthy Galapagos tortoise, but if you or I had been alive in 1902, chances are we’d never know that in 2015 the president of Europe’s most powerful nation is a woman, as are two major presidential candidates in the United States.

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File name: 10_03_002353a Binder label: Thread Title: The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. Merrick Thread Co., the cradle of American liberty. [front] Created/Published: N. Y. : Donaldson Brothers Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Women; Infants; Thread; Cotton; Cradles Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Jno. F. Rowland, St. James, Md. Statement of responsibility: Merrick Thread Co. Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions.

Palmin's Margarine "Cooks" c1910 ~ Dutch

File name: 10_03_002354a Binder label: Thread Title: Merrick Thread Co., Best Six Cord, 80 [front] Created/Published: Chicago : Shober & Carqueville Litho. Co. Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Women; Children; Thread; Cotton Notes: Title from item. Statement of responsibility: Merrick Thread Co. Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions.

Zuntz Coffee (Dresden) Richard Wagner's Masterworks, c1910. Parsifal

Typewriter ereader case: There is something poetic about covering your ereader with the image of a typewriter.Banned Book Trading Cards: Designed by local artists for the Lawrence Public Library,

Don't let the seeming progressiveness of these French playing cards from 1902 fool you: women were not actually allowed to participate in French elections until 1945. These cards were intended to be racy, silly, and improbable, even as they depicted women in the impressive (and since achieved!) positions of statesmen, rescue workers, soldiers, students and doctors. Which should be obvious as soon as you notice that the three star general has her stars of rank painted onto her bare arm. Although, we have to say, if we got to dress in hats with ducks on them, fetching pince nez, and high-collared coats like the Journaliste above, we'd be pretty happy. While these cards are racy for the standards of 1902, they're perfectly safe for work these days. Venture forth unafraid!

Many of these images are from old files, their sources long-forgotten. I will give sources as best I can. I apologize for inadvertent blunders.

Conceptualized in the late 1870s through the 1890s, the telephonoscope was an early concept of videophone and television, mentioned in various early

Liebig's Beef Extract "Colours of the Rainbow" Italian edition, 1901.

Player's Cigarettes "The Nations Shrines" (series of 25 large cards, 1929) #20 Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales

Liebig Beef Extract, German issue, 1894

Liebig's Meat Extract "Alphabet, Female Operatic Characters & Costumes" German issue of 12 cards, 1892

Player's Cigarettes "The Nations Shrines" (series of 25 large cards, 1929) #19 Stoke Poges Church, Buckinghamshire

Through the ways these flappers expressed themselves by posing with their classic cars, they were really badass girls.