Trade Card: Noxall Shirts and Pants; Stock Card with Advertisement and Biographical Information on Isaac Lesem

This archival object consists of a stock card featuring an advertisement for "Noxall Shirts and Pants." The card's reverse side includes a full-page advertisement for Noxall and an image of a young boy smoking a cigar. Accompanying the card is biographical information about Isaac Lesem, who immigrated to Quincy, Illinois from Bavaria in 1856. The text details his career as a trustee of the Illinois Deaf and Dumb Asylum, his appointment to the Illinois State Board of Education, and his role as a Republican presidential elector-at-large. It also mentions his involvement in establishing the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors' Home in Quincy. The information is contextualized within the history of the B'nai Abraham Congregation in Quincy, established in 1852, and the community's early Jewish settlers. The card is dated circa 1885, based on the context of Lesem's biography.

Associated People/Businesses

• Lesem, Isaac

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Subjects

• Advertising cards
• Clothing trade
• Jews--United States

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