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Author: None identified. Illustrator: Niagara Lith Co., Buffalo. Published by: Chase & Sanborn. Product advertised: Seal Brand Coffee and Fine Teas. General notes: Illustrations of different butterflies.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vermont. Product advertised: Diamond Dyes fabric dye. General notes: Booklet with illustrated poem about a black cat dying her white kittens to be fashionably black colored. Includes testimonials from customers.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: Bunce, Bill. Published by: Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C.. Product advertised: Railroad industry. General notes: Comic book explaining how railroads "fight snow, flood, fires, and other emergencies."

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Walker-Longfellow Co., Boston. Product advertised: First National Bank of Boston. General notes: Short history of money and currency practices in ancient and modern Asian, African, and Native American cultures. Concludes with promoting cheques as modern and effective banking practices. Contains list of bank's directors.

Author: Bunner, H.C.. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: C.I. Hood and Co., Lowell, Mass.. Product advertised: Hood's Sarsaparilla. General notes: Booklet with reprinted story from Puck Magazine, interspersed with explanation of health benefits of Hood's Sarsaparilla.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: Wireman, Katharine R. Published by: Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati. Product advertised: Ivory Soap. General notes: Aunt Mary Goodman introduces young bride, Elizabeth Harding, to Ivory Soap. Contains selection of useful recipes for cleaning household.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. Product advertised: Lydia E. Pinkham vegetable compound tablets. General notes: Includes short histories of famous women (Martha Washington, Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Isabella of Castile, Betsy Ross) as well as testimonials from women about the effectiveness of the Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound, available in liquid and tablet form. Includes illustrations.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: Barry, Dan. Published by: National Association of Manufacturers, New York. Product advertised: American manufacturing and machinery. General notes: Comic book promoting American capitalism. Includes minute men characters, warnings about nationalized socialism and communism, and explanation that "a real liberal stands for individual freedom - not more power for the government!" There are racist depictions and offensive language describing Native Americans.

Author: Fleischmann Company. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Fleischmann Company, New York. Product advertised: Fleischmann yeast. General notes: Advertising booklet of rhymes, poems, and stories for children. Includes an illustrated recipe in verse for White Bread -- Quick Method.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Seeck and Kade, Inc., New York. Product advertised: Pertussin cough syrup. General notes: "With compliments of the Makers of Pertussin 'for coughs'." Illustrated booklet for children and families, featuring Pertussin bottles, party games, magic tricks, brain teasers, shadow pictures, other games.

Author: Bituminous Coal Institute. Illustrator: None identified. Product: Coal. General notes: Coal Genie gives child Jimmy a flying tour to prepare class presentation on uses and "wondrous magic" of bituminous coal, "enough in Earth to last for thousands of years."

Author: Harris, Joel Chandler. Illustrator: F. Henry, Atlanta. Published by: Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.. Product advertised: S.S.S. vegetable compound. General notes: Booklet with "Uncle Balaam" and "Aunt Becky" presented as racist caricatures and including exaggerated dialects. Story is interspersed with testimonials for S.S.S. as a cure for everything from eczema to cancer.

Author: International Harvester Company of America. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Crown Press, Chicago, Ill. Product advertised: International Harvester Company farming tools. General notes: An advertisement in verse for farming tools. An unhappy, poor farmer is visited by a "thrift sprite" named Prospy, short for Prosperity (supplying an acrostic poem as an introduction). Illustrated.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: George A. Clark. Product advertised: Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton thread. General notes: Illustrated booklet with poem about lifetime use of O.N.T. thread.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Chase & Sanborn. Product advertised: Seal Brand Coffee and Fine Teas. General notes: Illustrated history of American colonial and military flags.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: Providence Lith. Co.. Published by: Chase & Sanborn. Product advertised: Seal Brand Coffee and Fine Teas. General notes: Illustrated history of American colonial and military flags.

Author: True, Barbara. Illustrator: Satterfield, Bob. Published by: Building Economy, Cleveland. Product advertised: Bricks. General notes: Mr. Herbert Brown (husband) and a salesman convince Mrs. Mary Brown (wife) that bricks are better for building their new house.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Dr. J.C. Ayer and Co., Lowell, Mass.. Product advertised: Ayer's Sarsaparilla. General notes: Illustrated notecard with poem about health and beauty benefits of Ayer's.

Author: None identified. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: George A. Clark. Product advertised: Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton thread. General notes: Illustrated booklet with poems describing travels of three white explorers. Contains racist depictions and offensive terms describing non-white cultures in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Author: Pond's Extract Co.. Illustrator: None identified. Published by: Pond's Extract Co., NY. Product advertised: Pond's Extract products. General notes: Aesop's fables in booklet, "rewritten in modern way with illustrations to attract and embellished with hints about Pond's Extract."