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We're remodeling the upstairs of our house, which was built around 1880. Except for carpet and fresh paint jobs the upstairs hasn't really been touched as much as the rest of the house. So this is the first substantial redo and stuff is being pulled up that hasn't been pulled up before.
My brother found this stuffed under some trim that he pulled up, an old grocery ad from November 1878
Having spent the last 130 some years inside a trim board it looks to be in pretty good shape.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Are you in Dubuque? The German is great - love the various typefaces.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I live fairly close to Dubuque. Close enough that this traveled all the way down from there in the 1880s, which would have been quite the journey back then.
ellisonz
(27,739 posts)How do I order frozen White Castle sliders?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Historian, somebody like that ...
NJCher
(37,897 posts)check around and see if there are any relatives.
I live in a house built in 1875, so I can identify.
Thanks for sharing.
Cher
Hissyspit
(45,790 posts)in an old abandoned dog-trot cabin in the backwoods of Tennessee. I still have it.
1monster
(11,026 posts)were unavailabe. I grew up in a pre Civil War home that has a kitchen added during the Depression. We tore out the kitchen walks when I was a preteen and found that inside the clapboard shell was only painted newspapers and canvas. the rest of the house had the traditional clapboard outside and horse hair, wooden slats covered by plaster inside. The kitchen was simply clapboard outside with layers of painted newspaper and canvas inside. It worked. Necessity is the mother of invention or needs must when the devil drives.
jdadd
(1,320 posts)Works in the reference dept of our local Library. He's constantly getting donations of old papers,ads, and photos found by owners of old houses. Maybe the Dubuque Library would be interested in this.
Mopar151
(10,179 posts)Or the one from Dubuque. They often maintain a local history archive.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I had a roommate after collage who liked antique furniture. He was a set dresser and I was a costumer. He bought an 1830's couch at some flea market, and the upholstery was dreadfully faded and coming apart. It musta been the original because when we took it off we found in the seat stuffing half (????) a velvet coat. It was picked apart into its pieces but all the parts of the left side of an 1830's cutaway coat were there.... in bottle green velvet. I made a pattern out of it and used it in a Dickens show I did a year or so later.
It looked very much like this coat:
But with sleeves that were fuller and gathered into the armseye at the top and a very high collar around the back of the neck. (this coat looks more 18-teens/20's... the gathered sleeve and high collar gave the decade away...1830's)
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Interesting mixture of English and German -- and in print. You don't see that very often.
This was printed for a community in which, as a rule, people must have spoken both languages.
47of74
(18,470 posts)The first wave came in the 1850s and 60s and by the 1860s were about 30% of the population. There was another large boom in the 1880s when the Milwaukee Railroad Shops opened bringing a large number of young German families to the area. Even into the 1900s German was spoken in north end churches and schools.
FedUpwithcalls
(4 posts)reminds us of what prices were in the good old days