See summary of illustrations on cover scan.

Plenty of color photographs in NG by this time, as well as black and white. Quarto, wraps, 128 numbered pages, plus 32 pp. The May,1944 issue, Volume LXXXV, Number Five. Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society,1944. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Taffe's, a millinery shop in Kansas City, Missouri. This loss of text may have resulted from the original cut. 1 3/4' x 3.' Trade card is clean and intact overall but has age toning, a few tiny marks, slight corner and edge wear, and some loss of text limited to 'Kansas City, Mo.' on the back.

A man with a curious and concerned look on his face watches from the background. Original trade card with a black-and-white illustration alluding to the caption, 'Ducks Foot in the Mud' a woman appears to be walking through mud while lifting her dress hem so its does not touch the ground.

Mud city book