Trade card - Stone's Bazaar, Hartford, Conn., circa 1885

This trade card advertises Stone's Bazaar, located at 99 Asylum St., Hartford, Conn. The card promotes a wide variety of goods including dolls, doll heads and bodies, toys, games, croquet sets, sleds, carriages, wagons, carts, stationery, blank books, ink, picture books, baskets, traveling bags, Russia and Turkey pocket books, and shawl straps. Stone's Bazaar claims to have the largest assortment of Fancy Goods in the state. The card features a decorative illustration of a large pink rose with green leaves and a smaller white daisy in the foreground. The verso is blank. 3.

Associated People/Businesses

• Stone

Geography

No geographic information available.

Subjects

• Trade cards
• Advertising
• Retail trade
• Fancy goods
• Toys
• Stationery
• Flowers
• Roses
• Hartford (Conn.)
• 19th Century

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 23, Folder 9