Food and Drink

"Thank you! Each loaf of Sunbeam you buy is a vote for me. I'm in line for prizes in the big contest if you keep backing me. ________ (sig.) Your Sunbeam Salesman." Hat: "Sunbeam Energy Bread." As Wikipedia explains, " Sunbeam Bread is a franchised brand of white bread, rolls, and other baked goods owned by the Quality Bakers of America cooperative. The bread products are produced and distributed by regional bakeries....The brand was launched in 1942 and was first marketed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." In the 1950s and 1960s, Quality Bakers ran contests with cars as prizes for the salesmen who handled Sunbeam and its other brands of bread. This poster, which dates to 1960, was probably distributed to grocery stores.

See also another Eat Pallister Bros' Candies trade card.

See also another Eat Pallister Bros' Candies trade card.

"Holiday Greetings of E. R. Barry, the Hanover St. Confectioner. Bufford." Although this advertising trade card likely dates to the 1880s or 1890s, E. R. Barry continued in business into the twentieth century, as evidenced by the text of an advertisement in The Manchester [New Hampshire] Directory, 1908 (Boston: Sampson and Murdock, 1907): "E. R. Barry Co., confectioners, caterers, and bakers, ice cream, etc. Dinner served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 35 cents. Odd Fellows' Block, 81 and 89 Hanover Street, Manchester, N.H." See below for some other Victorian trade cards that feature Santa Claus:

"Try Atmore's Mince Meat and Genuine English Plum Pudding." Santa looks likes he's sending plum pudding bombs down the chimney to surprise the unsuspecting inhabitants!

A cardboard milk bottle cap with Santa Claus and greetings of the season.

For another colorful label from this New Zealand company, see Real German Sausages, Irvine & Stevenson, St. George Preserving Works, Dunedin, New Zealand . Ye Olde English Plum Pudding Prepared by Irvine & Stevenson's St. George Coy. Ltd., New Zealand. Back and syde go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold But belly have jolly good duff enough Whether it be hot or cold. This tin is the safest in the world, all soldering being on the outside instead of inside. To open the tin cut along this line.

A breakfast photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. (In selecting images for the VPTP, I normally attempt to find a new photo that I haven't previously posted on Ipernity. But the frig was bare when I went to look for breakfast, so I'm reheating this pic for this week's theme.) An early photo mounted on cardboard captures a group of young women in a student dormitory room (note the bed with folded blanket at lower right). These fourteen ladies have apparently crowded into a single room to share breakfast. Many of them are holding doughnuts, and one--standing in the corner at right--is eating a banana. Some of the students are pretending to feed each other, and a number of them have their eyes closed, possibly due to whatever the photographer used for a flash. Various photos and artworks adorn the walls, including a print hanging in the upper right-hand corner that's derived from Heinrich Hofmann 's painting of Christ in Gethsemane (1890). The blinds on the window at the back of the room are pulled down, and what seems to be an American flag is partially hidden in the folds of the curtains. There wasn't any caption or description on the photo, unfortunately, and we may never know what special occasion or celebration it was that prompted this dorm-room get-together.

"Curve Premium Beer. Brewed and bottled by Altoona Brewing Co., Altoona, Pa. The famous Horse Shoe Curve. Contents 12 fluid ozs." A beer label featuring an image of the Horseshoe Curve , a three-track railroad curve located near Altoona, Pa., that was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1854 and is still in use today.

"Atlantic City Hot Wiener Lunch, 6th & Broad Streets, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Telephone Bell 9221. Save this blotter for your check book. Going to the dogs. Coney Island lunch counter." For a similar blotter/business card, see Swails Restaurant, Best Coffee in the City, Harrisburg, Pa.

"Swails Restaurant, R. O. Swails, prop. Before you try the rest, try the best. Strictly home cooked food. Best coffee in the city. 1913 Derry St., Harrisburg, Pa. Bell 3-9042. Open day and night. Never closed." For a similar blotter/business card, see Atlantic City Hot Wiener Lunch, Harrisburg, Pa.

"Here's to the Birthday We Celebrate! Ellen H. Clapsaddle. Painting only copyrighted by the Int. Art Pub. Co. 1912."

"Thanksgiving Day. Ain't this the dandy bird."

"Inquirer Restaurant, Nos. 53 & 55 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. Lager beer, wines & liquors. Prime oysters all the year round. Game in season. Francis Noll, proprietor."

"Wallace Hotel, H. C. Winger, proprietor, Cumberland and Wallace Streets, Harrisburg, Pa., meal ticket. Name ____________. Raysor, printer."

"Pie Social, to be held in the Lecture Room of St. Paul's Reformed Church, by Class No. 17, on Thursday even'g, Dec. 6, 1900, for benefit of Building Fund. Price, 10 cents." Happy Pi Day !

"I eat at the Royal Coffee Shoppe, 919 Orange St., Wilmington, Del." "I don't." See also Before Eating Potato Chips / After Eating Potato Chips :

"C. Byron Morse, fine and fancy cakes, ice cream, etc. Dining parlors for ladies and gentlemen, 912 Arch Street, Philad'a. Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co."