Gallery of Victorian trading cards

Amy Crehore says:

I just came across an incredible resource for artists or anyone who loves Victorian illustration, humorous advertising and the color lithography of the late 1800's. I have shown only a few examples of Victorian Trade Cards here. The Trade Card Place is an online reference library of an amazing amount of unique and exciting images

Link

[#1 posted by Eduardo Padoan , September 21, 2007 12:25 PM]

Looks like Monty Python.

[#2 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator , September 21, 2007 1:06 PM]

I love the picture of a woman in bed with a lobster.

Rex Kidney & Liver Bitters must have been a digestive -- lobsters were thought hard to digest, so the message would be something like "Why take that lobster to bed with you?"

[#3 posted by Anonymous , April 1, 2009 1:09 PM]

Your website is outstanding! Here is the url to the blog from the Archives of the Sandusky Library, if you would like to take a look:

http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/04/victorian-trade-cards-from-graham-drug.html