
The Trade Card Place is a fantastic resource dedicated to the incredibly amusing ephemera that are Victorian trade cards. A little more about what trade cards are, from the site:
Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards…Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm. The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective
Thanks to Amy Crehore for the link!