Business card for Ruth's Hobby Shoppe, Middlesex Road, Tyngsboro, Mass., circa 1940

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Date

undated

GUSN

GUSN-359163

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Ephemera collection
Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Antiques
Antiques - Trade Cards - Folder 1
Business card for Ruth's Hobby Shoppe, Middlesex Road, Tyngsboro, Mass., circa 1940
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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
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    - Antiques - Trade Cards - Folder 1

Description

Business card for Ruth's Hobby Shoppe in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. According to the card, the shop dealt in antiques, glassware, primitives, buttons, and choice dolls. The owner of the shop was Ruth Boucher. The card is also a red-colored, transparent, plastic material.

Details

Descriptive Terms

antiques (object genre)
advertising
dolls
printed ephemera
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Descrption

1 business card : illustration ; 3 1/2 x 2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.005.01.015

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Jane Nylander, 2014

Places

Tyngsboro (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

printed ephemera
trade cards (advertising)

Accruals Note

From the donor: "The business cards were found with others less interesting in material from the Colonial Acres Antique Shop which was located in the shed of my parents house in 1940s and 1950s"

Description Level

Item

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