[ADVERTISING]. A group of 43 advertising pieces, including die-cut Valentines, catalogs, advertising cards, and more.

Miniature book, “The Story of Sunny Jim.” 2.25 x 3.5 in. What at first glance appears to be a juvenile book is indeed advertising for “Force” with examples of conditions treated by this patent medicine. “Jim Dumps had tried some time in vain, / To ease an after dinner pain /Which gnawed at him his belt below, / And filled his world with indigo. Dyspesia now can’t bother him / For FORCE” has made him Sunny Jim.”

Advertising booklet “Story of Esquire Brown and his Mule.” 3.75 x 4.75 in. Testimonials for r. Bull’s Cough Syrup, 24pp. Carpenter & Henderson, Druggists, Athens, Ohio.

Metal (tin?) sign with red pig on yellow background. “People Eat Peoples Meat.” Peoples Meat Packing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (AKA “Porkoplis”) 9.5 x 13.75 in.

Die-cut Valentines include a 3-D ship (boy on boat); large 3-D house opening to approx.. 10 x 12 x 4 in.; another “boat” with an Orthodox priest blowing a trumpet, opens to 9 x 9.5 x 5 in. Plus nine die-cut and doily Valentines.

Flier “The Belle of Virginia” with “Manuf’d in the United States…Petersburg, Va.” Printed by R. Moen & Co., Richmond, Va.

Standing “tableau” of a conservatory, 11 x 15 in.

2Easter cards in German, plus 2 other religious cards.

8 figures (possibly from other cards?), 6 of them die-cuts

Card (4.5 x 7.25 in.) with Western Baptist Theological Institute, 1841.

Other advertising cards for: Heinz; Goodrich Hi-Press Rubber Footwear; Merchant’s Gargling Oil; Willimantic Thread; 3-d frog with “Smoke Greenback Tobacco;” bookmark advertising Hawley & Hoops Breakfast Cocoa.

Three items from the Columbian Exposition 1893: Cards with the Transportation Building; another with the Ethnology Building with Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co., Canton, Ohio on verso; and Columbian Souvenir advertising Kingsford’s Oswego Starch.

Brooks Brothers Clothing Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods pocket catalog (2.5 x 4.5 in.), New York, August 1915, 132pp. (with index). Illustrated with photos.

Small Catalog for 5/A Horse Blankets, “J.S. Bush & Co., Washington C.H., Ohio.” 14pp

Advertising and memo book for W.E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, American Snuff Co., Philadelphia.

Receipt for W.W. Fish, Elmira, NY with illustration of their building.