1.06.130

Card, Trade

1885 Approximate

W. H. Gillis.Material: paper. Size: 3 1/2" x 5" Description: business or trade card; front side printed in full-color showing image of little girl sliding on a toboggan in winter landscape; bottom imprinted with "Western School Shoes" manufactaured by I. P. Farnum, 240 Madison St., Chicago; backside is stamped with "W. H. Gillis, Waseca, Minn."

Waseca business: Gillis Clothing. W. H. Gillis was a Waseca mainstreet business in the 1880s and 1890s, clothiers for men, women and children, shoes, hats, etc. Several ads in newspaper index.