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[Advertisement for Dwight's Cow Brand Soda Cook Book]

Description: A card containing an advertisement for Dwight's Cow Brand Soda Cook Book. The advertisement offers a free cook book when customers send their name and address to John Dwight & Co., No. 11 Old Slip, New York, Department 2. There are some handwritten personal notes on the back of the card.
Date: unknown
Creator: John Dwight & Co.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Common Sense Exterminator]

Description: Postcard with an illustration of a rat wearing a top hat, pince-nez, and tails. According to the information on the back of the postcard, the image is from an early-twentieth century advertisement for rat poison.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Gunther's Candy Postcard]

Description: Postcard for Gunther's Candy. The front of the card has a picture of a snow-covered log cabin next to a lake and says underneath: "Compliments of the season. Eat Gunther's Candy and be happy."
Date: unknown
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Humor Postcard, Potato; Humor Postcard, Corn

Description: Copy negative of two humor postcards advertising for Bradshaw, Texas. In the top postcard two oversize potatoes are carried on a train. In the bottom postcard an oversize cob of corn is carried on a train. The text on both cards reads, "The Kind We Raise in Bradshaw, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Humor Postcard, Apple; Humor Postcard, Pumpkin

Description: Copy photograph of two humor postcards advertising for Bradshaw, Texas. In the top postcard two oversize apples are carried on a train. In the bottom postcard an oversize pumpkin is carried on a train. Text on both cards reads, "The Kind We Raise in Bradshaw, Tex."
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Signboard advertising auto and buggy painting]

Description: Postcard image of a signboard advertising auto and buggy painting, sign painting. One man is standing to right of sign, and another man is standing in doorway of building. There is a house to left of photo and a tree on the far left with white picket fence in foreground.
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Postcard from Southern School-Book Depository]

Description: An unused return postcard from an advertisement for maps and hairnets of the Southern School-Book Depository.
Date: 1921~
Creator: Southern School-Book Depository
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

[Advertising Card from Richard Bennett]

Description: Advertising card from Richard Bennett addressed to I. H. Kempner providing details of their semi-annual tailoring sale.
Date: 1963~
Creator: Richard Bennett
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Advertisement from Holiday Magazine]

Description: Postcard advertisement from Holiday Magazine advertising their photographs of the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. The postcard is green with white letters, with a couple rectangles with white backgrounds and green writing.
Date: 1952
Creator: Holiday Magazine
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Postcard of El Encanto de un Pueblo Exhibit]

Description: Exhibit hall with brightly colored exterior walls, one red with a geometric sun, one orange and one blue with a light blue crescent moon with a face, described on the back as the "El Encanto de un Pueblo / The Magic of a People" theme exhibit. This is where the Alexander Girard Foundation collection of folk art, with over 10,000 pieces of Latin American folk art was exhibited. The mini-monorail can be seen just at the right edge.
Date: 1967
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Thought for Today

Description: Postcard from the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. The image on the card shows a face wearing a cowboy hat with a finger at his mouth in a pondering gesture. The text "Thought for Today ..." appears below it.
Date: 1968
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

We May Never Go Home

Description: Postcard from the 1968 World's Fair known as HemisFair '68, held from April to October 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. The image on the card shows a happy smiling face from a side profile separating the text "We May Never Go Home".
Date: 1968
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

IBM Lakeside Pavilion

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring an illustration of the IBM Lakeside pavilion, a single -story building that appears to be open, or have glass walls. People are inside looking at various displays. Printed on back: "IBM: Lakesde. Key feature of the IBM Lakeside Pavilion, one of two the corporation has constructed on site, is a light-hearted informative move explaining the operation of modern computers."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Las Plazas del Mundo at HemisFair '68

Description: Postcard of an architect's model of Las Plazas del Mundo (Plazas of the World) HemisFair’s international area, where foreign governments had exhibits. More than 20 countries participated in HemisFair '68.
Date: 1967
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

Pearl Pavilion at HemisFair '68

Description: A postcard of a three-dimensional model of the pavilion of the Pearl Brewing Company with its indoor and outdoor dining facility including refreshment and entertainment areas. In the picture some people are shown canoeing in front of the building.
Date: 1967?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

U.S. Exhibit Pavilion

Description: Postcard illustration of the U.S. Exhibit Pavilion, one of two buildings that comprised the United States exhibit at HemisFair '68. The Exhibit Pavilion's theme was "Confluence, U.S.A."
Date: 1967?
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

HemisFair '68 headquarters

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photograph of the building used as the headquarters. Printed on the back: "Headquarters, HemisFair '68. Strung with Mexican lanterns by night, the center of HemisFair activity by day, this beautifully restored 109-year-old structure was originally the German-English School, the grammar school for the children of German families in San Antonio."
Date: 1967
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

The Bell System pavilion at HemisFair '68

Description: Postcard advertising HemisFair '68, featuring a photograph of a model of Southwestern Bell's pavilion. Printed description on the back: "Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Pavilion. Visitors to this exhibit will be treated to a lively show of the progress of communications. The past, present and future of communications will be shown, but the emphasis will be on the future."
Date: 1967?
Creator: Plastichrome of Texas
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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