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A Victorian-era calling card sample.
"To the keeper of my heart. Price net to agents, twenty for 15 cts. Agents charge 25 cents."
"E. L. Muellich, wholesale and retail dealer in love, kisses, and up-to-date hugs. I have no soliciters, all claiming to be, are fakes. Sole proprietor, lover's lane. A trial is all I ask, special attention to other people's girls. Cable address: I got a feeling for you. Holding hands a specialty."
Acquaintance cards like this one were popular in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries They were a humorous way for young men to start up conversations, break the ice, flirt, or otherwise get acquainted with young ladies. In contrast to the formality of the Victorian-era calling cards, acquaintance cards were lighthearted and humorous, and they parodied the conventional etiquette of exchanging calling cards. The elaborate penmanship executed for the name in this example suggests that it may have been purchased through the mail or perhaps at an amusement park or at the beach.
For additional examples, see my Flickr Acquaintance Cards set, which was featured in Brett and Kate McKay's article "May I See You Home? 19th Century Calling Cards Guaranteed to Score You a Date" on The Art of Manliness blog, Feb. 13, 2014.
Originally posted on Ipernity: E. L. Muellich, Dealer in Love, Kisses, and Up-to-Date Hugs.
This delicate Victorian-era Christmas greeting card (smaller in size than a modern business card) displays an eye-catching, three-dimensional design featuring embossed flowers, die-cut stems and leaves peeking out from under a faux folded corner, and stippled shadowing around fake slits through which the flowers and pin extend.
Based on a Find A Grave search, this is probably Elwood C. Everhart (1893-1979), who lived in York County, Pennsylvania.
Judging by all the smudges, folds, and tears on this acquaintance card, Elmer E. Trutt carried it around in his wallet for quite some time. For a similar card, see Elmer Miller, Ragtime Millionaire (below).
Elmer E. Trutt, Milton, Pa.
Ragtime millionaire, sole owner and agent for up-to-date hugs and kisses. Holding hands a specialty. Send me your order on a postcard.
If you wish to get acquainted come with me. Capital, two thousand dollars in my dreams. Kind regards to all friends and other fellows' girls. Not married but out for a good time.
Rebus: "May Eye C U Home."
Translation: "May I see you home?"
An acquaintance card that uses a rebus to pose its question. For a similar card, see May I See You Home?
Compliments.
May I see you home?
If not, please return this card.
"Compliments of Wm. J. C. Dunlany & Co. Books -- Engraved wedding and visiting cards -- Fine stationery. 8 E. Baltimore Street, near Charles, Baltimore."
An elegantly designed calendar for 1888 that served as an example of the printing work of Wm. J. C. Dunlany & Co.
For the other side, see Best Wishes for a Happy New Year, 1888.
Calling card decorated with a marbled pattern (see Wikipedia's article on paper marbling). The tiny dark spots come from glitter that has lost its gleam.
"John B. Hefflefinger, White House, Pa. My love to you."
The design of this calling card is a printed version of the flourished birds (or bird flourishes) commonly found in ornamental penmanship.
"Emma K. Stein. Compliments."
An example of ornamental penmanship on a calling card dating to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Compare this card with Charles Smith—Ornamental Pensmanship on a Calling Card.
Originally posted on Ipernity: World's Columbian Exposition Calling Card, Administration Hall.
"Administration Hall. From your friend."
A Victorian-era hidden-name calling card with an illustration of the Administration Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The illustration is a separate piece that lifts up to reveal the name (in this case, "Harry Owens") printed underneath.
"A Happy New Year. Haddocks. Come to your milk now."
A Victorian-era New Year calling or greeting card with a hand-drawn sketch.
"Come to your milk" seems to have had a specific meaning in the nineteenth century beyond pulling on a calf's tail to try to get it to drink out of a milk bucket. Besides a few hits on the phrase in Google Books, however, I haven't uncovered any source that reveals what that meaning might have been.
Update: The Dictionary of American Regional English gives the meaning of "come to one’s milk" as "To yield to authority, comply."
Originally posted on Ipernity: A Happy New Year.
"This is one card from our pack of 50 elegant assorted chromo cards. Gold, silver, tinted, shells, mottoes &c."
A sample Victorian-era calling card.
A nineteenth-century calling card.
"Gen. Wayne Herman. True loves offering."
Originally posted on Ipernity: Gen. Wayne Herman, True Love's Offering.
This is one of twelve "highly amusing fun cards" that came in a Novelty Fun Cards envelope (see below).
For a similar card, see Acquaintance Compliments with Confidence and Respect.
For more "fun cards," see my Novelty Fun Cards album.
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"Confidential card, between ourselves. May I have the pleasure of seeing you home this evening? If so, keep this card; if not, please return."
For another acquaintance card featuring John J. Carberry's name, see I Am Fishing for a Sweetheart.
For other similar cards, see Charles M. Krout, Dealer in Love, Kisses, and Up-to-Date Hugs, Elmer E. Trutt, Ragtime Millionaire, Milton, Pa., E. L. Muellich, Dealer in Love, Kisses, and Up-to-Date Hugs, and James L. Gallas, Kissing Rogue.
John J. Carberry
Dealer in up-to-date hugs, kisses, and squeezes. I have no solicitors or agents; all claiming to be such are fakes.
Discounts given to treatments taken in quantities. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
Special attention given to good looks and other fellows' girls. No old maids need apply for treatment.
Office: Lover's Lane, near Cupid's Bower.
Mail orders promptly attended to, provided all expenses are advanced.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Alice G. Junker, Yreka, California.
"Compliments of your neice Alice."
Handwritten note on the back of this photographic calling card: "Mrs. A. E. Junker, Yereka, Cal. Taken some years ago."
Based on the handwritten additions, this card and its inset tintype photo belonged to Alice G. Junker, who was married to Albert E Junker. In 1910, when Alice was 44 years old and Albert was 48, they lived in Yreka Ward 2, Siskiyou County, California. It's likely that the calling card dates to the 1880s or 1890s.
Thanks to everyone for confirming that this wasn't the Great Northern Railway Station in Belfast as it said in our catalogue, but rather York Road Railway Station!
Really love the chap striding towards the camera - he looks like a docker? (Re-reading Strumpet City at the moment for Dublin: One City, One Book so that may be influencing me).
Date: Circa 1907?
NLI Ref.: L_ROY_00329
A Victorian-era acquaintance card with a scroll ribbon border.
Acquaintance Card
M ________
I would be pleased to form your acquaintance, if this, with my COMPLIMENTS, be favorably received.
Return this card, and state on the back how my request may be brought about.
Confidingly yours, ________
"James L. Gallas, kissing rogue. Kissing our main specialty. Hugging a sideline. Office hours: 1 p.m. to 4 a.m. Hugtite Lane, Squeezemburg."
Sample sheet showing the variety of calling cards, rewards of merit, and other printed items available in 1886 from the Connecticut Steam Card Works, Hartford, Conn.
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For the front of this sample sheet, see the following:
part 3, top middle (above)
See also Explanation of Hidden Name Calling Cards for an excerpt from the reverse side of this sample sheet.
"J. Shisler, agt., dealer in selected family groceries, pure coffees, spices, and good teas, Third St. (opposite Opera House), Harrisburg."
This is one of a six-part "Comic Visiting" card series printed by E. Currier & Co., Boston (probably related to the Currier of Currier & Ives but I'm not sure how). Other cards show a woman trying to attract a cat with a saucer of milk, a man peering through his eyeglasses at an owl, and a baby dangling a cup or something else to get a dog's attention.
For another illustration of a slipper-shaped calling card, see the "No. 23 - Slipper" design on Samples from Connecticut Steam Card Works 1886 (Part 3 of 6).
The last line on this amusing acquaintance card refers to a song, "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me," which was published as sheet music in 1901 and recorded on phonograph cylinder in 1902, making it likely that the card dates from sometime in the early 1900s.
See my Flickr About page for information on my book of detachable acquaintance cards.
L. M. Arnold, Sand Patch, Pa., R.F.D. No. 1
Let's get acquainted. Capital 50 millions in my dreams. Not married.
Stick to me and you will wear diamonds,
Kind regards to friends and knockers. Out for a good time.
Any old place I hang my hat is my home sweet home.
A late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century escort or acquaintance card. This twist on the typical Escort Card asks permission to "stand under my umbrella" rather than "sit on the fence" to "see you go by."
Escort Card.
May I have the pleasure of escorting you home this rainy evening? If so, keep this card. If not, please may I stand under my umbrella and see you go by?
Strictly Confidential.
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"Raffle for a double-jointed, steam-heating, anti-corrosive, self-acting, non-explosive, back-action Centennial Bustle. Warranted not to rip, ravel, or run down at the heel. For the benefit of a young lady suffering from the pull-back. Tickets: 3 smacks and a squeeze."
"Let's get acquainted for fun and results. I am a millionaire's only son, not married. Looking for someone to love. License to knock and butt-in. Office hours, 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. in some young lady's parlor."
A Victorian-era calling card for Stephen T. Bruce. The typeface is MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan's Spencerian Script with ornamented capitals.
With prices on one side and his name on the other, J. E. Wittmer designed this card to serve both as a business card and as a sample of the visiting (or calling) cards that he sold in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, in 1876. Please note, however, that "Gold Extra" cards are no longer available.
J. E. Wittmer / Fine Visiting Cards
Reduced Price List, May 10, 1876
New and fashionable styles and varieties. Only the finer qualities of cardboard are used.
Fancy Cards. - Bristol Board. - Gold Extra.
100 cards, one name and one style of type. 75c. 45c. 20c.
75 cards, 60c. 35c. 15c.
52 cards, 45c. 25c. 10c.
26 cards, 25c. 15c. 10c.
When ordering cards please write name very plainly, thereby avoiding mistakes. Give your name, post office, county, and state in full, and mention the amount of money you send.
J. E. Wittmer, Washington Boro', Lancaster Co., Pa.
"Mrs. Margaret Kushmore, nurse, No. 319 Richmond Street."
An unusual Victorian-era business card. Calling cards that listed just a name were the norm for women and men in the late nineteenth century, but it's not as common to find a business card from that period that advertises a woman's name, occupation, and address in this manner. It's likely that this is the same Margaret Kushmore (1828-1909) who is buried in the East Cedar Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is located about six miles from the 319 Richmond Street address that she used on her card.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Mrs. Margaret Kushmore, Nurse, Philadelphia, Pa.
"The sea may rise and mountains fall, but my love for thee will live through it all. Sweet dreams and glad awakernings be thine."
"Miss _______, I am very fond of dancing and beg leave to say that the next party at ________ will occur on ________. I should greatly appreciate your company and feel much honored in being your escort."
"Acquaintance Card. Name ________. Fair lady, may I have the pleasure of seeing you home this evening? If so, keep this card. If not please return it."
"Name ________. Not married. Subject to change without notice. Let's get acquainted. Cash on hand 00. Worth $25,000,000 in my dreams. Kind regards to friends and knockers. Out for a good time. Can't sleep at night. Address any old place between S.F. and N.Y."
This is one of twelve "highly amusing fun cards" that came in a Novelty Fun Cards envelope (see below).
For a similar card, see I'm Just Your Size and Complexion.
For more "fun cards," see my Novelty Fun Cards album.
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"As you are my style and complexion and as I am going in your direction, let's get acquainted. If you have no objection, I will be your protection, for you certainly are my selection. A chance of a lifetime. Yours with affection, signed ________. Phone no. ________. Address ________."
"Eugene O. Chase, Second Leading Hoseman, Danielsonville, Ct."
For other firemen's calling cards, see Fireman Calling Card and C. H. Moscrip, H. G. Phelps Hose Company No. 1, Sidney, N.Y.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Eugene O. Chase, Second Leading Hoseman, Danielsonville, Conn.
Sample sheet showing the variety of calling cards, rewards of merit, and other printed items available in 1886 from the Connecticut Steam Card Works, Hartford, Conn.
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For the front of this sample sheet, see the following:
part 4, bottom middle (above)
See also Explanation of Hidden Name Calling Cards for an excerpt from the reverse side of this sample sheet.
"May joy be around you."
A Victorian-era calling card with a winter theme for Christmas.
See also a card for Harry Sprenkil that uses the same illustration.
A Victorian-era acquaintance card.
Caution
Dear Miss:
The accompanying Chromo is a good illustration "done in ile" of the gent who escorted you home last Sunday evening, as he appeared at three in the morning while ascending to his room. The Society for the "Invention of Cruelty to Animals" wishes me to caution you against keeping him up so late again!