Advertising

Scope and Contents This file contains a small cloth-bound account book belonging to Ben Zellers. The inside front and both back covers feature advertisements for Royal Baking Powder. According to the back cover, "The United States Government Report shows the Royal to be the purest and strongest baking powder in [sic] the market." Most of the book's pages are blank.

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents relating to the Civil War, but only indirectly. Included are an 1860 ad for General William Walker's book, The War in Nicaragua; a Masonic memorial card for Jere Clemens Dennis of Dadeville, Alabama; a 2007 ad for a rare salt print of General Thomas Carmichael Hindman, C.S.A.; photocopy of page 422 of volume XVIII (1910) of Confederate Veteran, article titled "Proof about Coffin for General...

Scope and Contents This file contains a card with an advertisement for the Fox Company of San Antonio, Texas. On the front is a picture of an elderly couple sitting together. The message on the other side urges readers to order film for a family photograph, and indicates that May 13 is Mother's Day.

Scope and Contents This single page from an undated issue of the Southern Business Guide - Illustrated highlights Columbus Female College in Columbus, Georgia, and the Beymer, Bauman, and Company

Scope and Contents This file contains one folded four-page advertisement for Swans Down Cake Flour sent out from the Educational Department of Igleheart Brothers, Inc. The ad includes a testimonial letter from a bride who says that Swans Down makes her cakes and pies turn out perfectly, and three pages of recipes for baked goods that can be made with the flour, including quick rusks, quick Sally Lunn, and apple cake, with illustrations of the treats.