Trade card for Thurbers' Deep Sea Mess Mackerel and Deep Sea Cod, H.K.& F.B. Thurber & Co., location unknown, undated

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GUSN-249507

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Food enterprises - Butchers - Folder 2
Trade card for Thurbers' Deep Sea Mess Mackerel and Deep Sea Cod, H.K.& F.B. Thurber & Co., location unknown, undated
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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Food enterprises
    - Butchers
      - Food enterprises - Butchers - Folder 2
        Trade card for Thurbers' Deep Sea Mess Mackerel and Deep Sea Cod, H.K.& F.B. Thurber & Co., location unknown, undated (current record)
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        Billhead for Boston Beef Packing Co., slaughterers & packers of beef, 187 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. and 15 Front Street, New York, New York, undated
        Billhead for Potter & Wrightington, fish & canned goods, 197 Atlantic Ave, 118 to 128 Commerce Street, Boston, Mass., dated August 9, 1884
        Sea foods with the tang of the sea, how to prepare and serve them, Frank E. Davis Co., Central Wharf, Gloucester, Mass., undated
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Description

The card verso urges customers to ask their grocers for the mackerel and cod.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
food

Physical Descrption

1 trade card : color illustration ; 3 x 5 1/4 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.046.02.02.001

Image Dimensions

3 x 5 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Purchased from Greg Smart, 2007.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Forbes Co.

Subjects

Fish

Description Level

Item

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