Tisane des Chartreux de Durbon

A trade card for an herbal tea that features a scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin, and a cut-out of a monk. Apparently, chartreuse liqueur was originally made by Carthusian monks in France. You can read more about it here.

Red hat lady, c. 1880s

Vintage scrap

Hallmark Walking Doll, c. 1971

This illustration style was popular in the early 1970s, and takes me back to high school days, and birthday cards, invitations and pretty boxes of stationery.

Patty and Selma paper dolls

Bongo Comics, 1994.

Colleen of Ireland

Dolls of Many Lands, Whitman, 1932. I posted this doll five years ago, on an earlier blog. It's a favorite set. I like the 1930s style of illustration, something about the quality of the line, patterns and color combinations.

Dublin Bridge Tally, 1926

People were mad for bridge in the 1920s. This comic tally was part of the Chester Thorpe scrapbook that I found a few years back, full of bridge tallys and other ephemera, and documenting the social life and travel of Chester and Carrie Thorpe.

I like the "We"- "They" division of players. This is a newsprint quality slip of paper, and it has held together well over the last 9 decades.

It is dated 3/20/26. The hat and shamrock are glued on tight. But you can still see the caption for the cartoon: "Bridge is such a simple game-- You don't have to remember what cards are out--I like to play solitaire -- It's so scientific!" says the lady with the cards, as her friends look at her in amazement. You can see in pencil "C. E. Thorpe," and "Mrs. Blaisdell" near the illustration.

Sanford Trimming trade card, c. 1920s

This is a small 2 x 5 inch slip of paper, not quite card stock but sturdier than plain paper. This might have been a salesman's handout in a retail fabric store, in the days when clothing was mostly home-made.