Advertising Trade Card from Lautz Brothers and Company's Soap - "Unequaled for the Laundry" with Hiram Tuthill's dry-goods store promoted in the form of a billhead on the reverse side.
Newspaper article about the arson trial resulting from the investigation following the disastrous fire of July 5, 1877 that consumed much of downtown Chester.
Three children are blowing soap bubbles in a Victorian parlor. They are using pipes to make the bubbles. On a table covered with newspapers is a cake of homemade soap and a dish of water.