Something From Nutting

I've got plenty of Nutting for you today.

I was looking through the superb digital collections of the Brooklyn Public Library - specifically their collection of Victorian trade cards - ancestors of the little business cards that you can pick up at many stores and businesses today. My great grandfather ran a shoe store in Brooklyn in the late 19th century and I am lucky enough to own one of his cards:

A few names in the trade card collection were familiar to me but one that stood out was that of Alexander Nutting, a clothing manufacturer. It was his ad at the back of a mystery cookbook that led me to identify it as the masterwork of the St. John's Parish Aid Society ladies, circa 1910. You can read about that in A Post About Nutting.

Here is his beautiful trade card in the shape of an artist's palette, from the Fulton Street Trade Card Collection of the Brooklyn Public Library. I am very grateful to them for the incredibly rich resources they have made available.