This little 2.5” x 1.75” is an advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines. I have not seen other similar cards but it is probably part of a set that features movie stars.

On this card Jackie Coogan is pictured and several of his starring roles are noted. The latest movie, “Trouble” was released in 1922.

State Street M. E. Church was located in Charleston, West Virginia.

1883 dust jacket

The 1883 Peck’s Bad Boy books were both serialized in newspapers. Here is an example from the Meigs County Telegraph published in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. In the October 17, 1883 edition, Chapter 26 from Peck’s Bad Boy, No. 2: The Grocery Man and Peck’s Bad Boy was printed in its entirety.

When this book was released in September of 1883 it had 27 chapters.

For more information, see Atkinson’s Jollities

Here is a postcard advertising Peck’s Sun in November, 1885.

This card is a promotional item that offers potential subscribers a “deal” if they subscribe to Peck’s Sun now.

Dot Karroll played Peck’s Bad Boy in the mid 1890’s and early 1900’s

The Grocery Man and Peck’s Bad Boy 1883 edition

For more information, see Hi Henry Minstrels

Geo. W. Heath managed the Atkinson Comedy Comedy troupe that produced the Peck’s Bad Boy plays in the 1890’s. Each poster is 41” x 28”.