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Gallery of Victorian trading cards

Mark Frauenfelder at 12:19 pm Fri, Sep 21, 2007

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Amy Crehore says:
200709211218 I just came across an incredible resource for artists or anyone who loves Victorian illustration, humorous advertising and the color lithography of the late 1800's. I have shown only a few examples of Victorian Trade Cards here. The Trade Card Place is an online reference library of an amazing amount of unique and exciting images
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  • Eduardo Padoan

    Looks like Monty Python.

  • Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator

    I love the picture of a woman in bed with a lobster.

    Rex Kidney & Liver Bitters must have been a digestive — lobsters were thought hard to digest, so the message would be something like “Why take that lobster to bed with you?”

  • Anonymous

    Your website is outstanding! Here is the url to the blog from the Archives of the Sandusky Library, if you would like to take a look:

    http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/04/victorian-trade-cards-from-graham-drug.html