This is part of my history and guide to my adopted home - Terre Haute, Indiana.
More postcards from my collection...
Hulman Wholesale Grocer & Dealer Receipt
This receipt is dated 24th March, 1864. It has the printed text...
Bought of H. Hulman
Wholesale Grocer & Dealer
in all kinds of
Liquors, Flour, Salt, Nails &c.
Corner of Main and Fifth Streets
Engraved by Forbriger & Co. Lith. Cincinnati
"Hulman Coffees / Clabber Girl Envelope
This envelope is postmarked December 28th, 1904. The front advertises Hulman coffees and the rear hulman Clabber Girl baking powder. The advert for Clabber Girl reads...
What It Will Do
Make the healthiest and sweetest yeast bread on earth.
Make bread hold moisture. Restore that good taste
which is taken out of flour in order to make it white.
Make the best tasting cakes of any baking powder on
the market.
It contains a large per cent, of Vegetable Phosphates
which is a pure food.
THE healthiest baking powder in the world.
Hulman made a couple of beautiful bookmarks and trade cards...
Hulman & Co. - Rex Coffee bookmarks
Not a postcard but trade cards or bookmarks, the text on both is the same and says...
Hulman's Original A Rex
The Best and only Blend
of Coffee that gives
Universal Satisfaction
Everywhere
This Coffee has been
blended, roasted and
sold by Hulman & Co.
for the past 24 years
without a complaint.
Therefore we guarantee
every pound we sell to
give satisfaction.
Sold Only By
Hulman & Co.
Terre Haute, Mattoon,
Paris and Evansville.
Hulman Crystal Coffee trade cards
The Hulman Crystal Coffee trade card back on the left above reads:
Why
Crystal Coffee
is the Best
Because it is absolutely pure.
Because it is stronger and retains its
strength much longer than any
other coffee.
Because we know the better we make
Crystal Coffee the more we
we sell of it.
Because we import, roast and pack
Crystal Coffee, hence can
afford to give you a better coffee
than any one else for the same
money.
Take notice in mailing Crystal Trade
marks that the word "Crystal" is cut from
the side of the package which bears the words
Trade Mark. Ask your grocer for Crystal
Coffee Premium List.
To guard against fraud and imposition see
that each label bears our name. None others
are genuine.
Hulman Coffee Co.,
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Hulman Crystal Coffee trade card back on the right above reads:
Crystal Coffee
Is a blend of high grade Coffee, and is the
Coffee for those who appreciate a good thing.
we buy this Coffee on the plantation where
it is grown, and we buy it as cheap as it can
be bought.
We do not claim to be smarter than any one
else, but we do claim that CRYSTAL
COFFEE is the equal of any Coffee on the
market sold at the same price, and it is the
same quality as a number of brands for which
a much higher price is paid.
Save your Crystal Coffee wrappers until
you have 25, cut the word Crystal from the
side of each wrapper and mail them to us with
your name and Post Office address, and we will
send you in return, postage paid, a large beau-
tiful Imported Picture or a Handsome Sou-
venir Book, containing 17 views of the
World's Fair. Do not fail to specify which
you prefer, souvenir Book or Picture.
Hulman & Co.,
Importers and Roasters of Fine Coffees,
Terre Haute, Ind.
This text on both was also used on some Dauntless Coffee trade cards but with the word Dauntless substituted for Crystal.
Hulman Dauntless Coffee trade cards
The Hulman Dauntless Coffee trade card back on the left above reads:
Dauntless Coffee
Is a blend of high grade Coffee, and is the
Coffee for those who appreciate a good thing.
we buy this Coffee on the plantation where
it is grown, and we buy it as cheap as it can
be bought.
We do not claim to be smarter than any one
else, but we do claim that DAUNTLESS
COFFEE is the equal of any Coffee on the
market sold at the same price, and it is the
same quality as a number of brands for which
a much higher price is paid.
Save your Dauntless Coffee wrappers until
you have 25, cut the word Dauntless from the
side of each wrapper and mail them to us with
your name and Post Office address, and we will
send you in return, postage paid, a large beau-
tiful Imported Picture or a Handsome Sou-
venir Book, containing 17 views of the
World's Fair. Do not fail to specify which
you prefer, souvenir Book or Picture.
Hulman & Co.,
Importers and Roasters of Fine Coffees,
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Hulman Dauntless Coffee trade card back on the right above reads:
1. Since it is packed in sealed packages, you are bound to get Dauntless Coffee every time.
2. As it is packed by no one else but ourselves, we are to blame if it does not give satisfaction, and everyone knows who to blame.
3. It is to our interest to pack the very best coffee we can for the money because the better we make it the more we will sell of it.
4. Being a standard package which everyone knows the price of, it is sold at a uniform price with only a reasonable profit to the Grocer.
5. We can give you a better Coffee for the same price because we import, roast, and pack, Dauntless Coffee, and sell it to the retail trade direct, thus saving one profit and we have put this profit in the quality of the coffee.
Take notice in sending us Dauntless Coffee Wrappers in exchange for engravings it is not necessary to send the entire wrapper, send only the Round Picture on the front of the wrapper bearing the words TRADE MARK.
Hulman Coffee Co., Terre Haute, Ind.
This text on both was also used on some Crystal Coffee trade cards but with the word Crystal substituted for Dauntless.
Hulman's created some beautiful trade cards featurung different subjects. These fronts used a variety of backs including the ones shown above.
Hulman Coffee trade cards - birds
Hulman Coffee trade cards - flowers
Hulman Coffee trade cards - women