World's Columbian Exposition collection, 1892 - 1893

These trade cards are part of the World's Columbian Exposition collection. 

The bulk of this collection consists of printed ephemera produced by exhibitors at the fair to promote their products. There are brochures, fliers, trade cards, advertising literature, and giveaways promoting a wide range of contemporary consumer, professional, and industrial products, including clothing, textiles, sewing equipment, jewelry, food and food services, storage equipment, fire extinguishers, laundry supplies, medicines, furniture, heating equipment, window shades, building materials, cooking and eating utensils, tool and machine manufacturing companies, restaurants, hotels, photography, lithography, art, writing materials, and merchants. One group of trade cards represents foreign businesses that exhibited at the fair. There are also transportation schedules for routes to Chicago, an album of train tickets for routes to the fair, and information promoting lodgings and attractions in Chicago itself.

See photographs from the collection here.