Subject: Landscape

This trade card advertises Chas. Holtzmann, a wholesale and retail clothier located at the corner of State & Ferry Streets in Schenectady, N.Y. The front of the card features a decorative image of a white rose surrounded by other blue and purple flowers, with a small landscape scene, possibly depicting a town with a church steeple and a body of water, visible behind them. The reverse side contains the business information in stylized lettering.

This trade card advertises H. J. Radin, a dealer in Clothing, Hats, Caps, and Gents' Furnishing Goods located in Carthage, N. Y. The card features a decorative illustration of a young woman in a long dress and bonnet, holding a basket of flowers and an umbrella, set in a pastoral landscape with hills and a house in the background. The business information is presented in a red rectangular frame on the right side of the card. The overall style is typical of late 19th-century chromolithographed advertising. 3.

This item is a folded trade card for H. Roman & Co., advertising the opening of their new business, The Model Clothing House, located at 101 & 103 Montgomery Street, corner of Sutter Street, San Francisco, California, in September 1886. The advertisement announces a large and varied stock of men's, youths', boys', and children's clothing, as well as a complete assortment of furnishing goods including underwear, shirts, neckties, and hats. H. Roman & Co. emphasizes their "ONE PRICE PRINCIPLE" with prices marked in plain figures, and a commitment to offering "BETTER CLOTHING AT LOWER PRICES" with a motto of "THE BEST POSSIBLE GOODS, For the Least Possible Prices." The card features two ornate lithographic illustrations: one side depicts irises and cattails surrounding a framed scene of a pond with a house in the background; the other side shows dandelions with a framed scene of a rural road and a house. The interior text is presented in various elegant serif and script fonts typical of the late 19th century.

Trade card depicting a girl and boy in a wooded stream scene. The address 17 South Greene Street is visible on the card. The card is estimated to be from circa 1860. This item is part of the Lowenstein Collection and located in Arc.MS.56, Volume 17, Page 51.