Vintage Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Revision as of 08:14, 8 February 2023
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This page hosts vintage Tea Room business cards and clipped newspaper and magazine advertisements. Some offer a free or paid reading with every meal and some merely present as public tea rooms. They are listed on one page, alphabetically first by state and then by tea room name. Some of these tea rooms may also appear in the following sets of images:
- Vintage Tea Room Postcards: These are sorted by state or nation; one page per state or non-USA nation.
- Vintage Tea Room Matchbook Covers: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
You can use the site's search function (at left, in the directory bar, to search for tea room (and tea cup) names.
USA Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Alabama Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Alaska Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Arizona Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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California Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Delaware Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Georgia Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Hawaii Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Idaho Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Illinois Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Ann Sauer offered the Scientific Interpretation of Tea Leaves at the 1933 World's Fair, held in Chicago, Illinois. Oddly, she did so in the German Pavilion. Germany had just passed it's first anti-Jewish laws and was beginning its rapid descent into fascist aggression, a world war, and crushing defeat, but there sat Ann Sauer, snuggled up with the Nazis, engaging in the gentle art of tasseography.
Indiana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Iowa Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Kansas Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Kentucky Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Louisiana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Massachusetts Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Michigan Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Newspaper advertisement for the Bohemian Cave Tea Room in Detroit, Michigan, which offered tea leaf readings with meals.
Minnesota Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Mississippi Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Missouri Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Montana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Nebraska Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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New Hampshire Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
New Jersey Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
New Mexico Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
New York Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Oregon Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Pennsylvania Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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A business card blotter advertising the Blue and Gray Tea Room, 441 7th Street, North, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. "The Home of Good Eats, Famous for Home Cooking" was open as early as 1936, according to local newspaper ads, and the proprietor was Miss Emma Eshleman. The name "Blue and Gray" refers to the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, at which the blue-uniformed Union troops fought and prevailed against the gray-uniformed Confederate troops. Many tourists from both the North and the South visit the battlefield, making the tea room's name appear open and friendly to all.
Rhode Island Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Tennessee Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Utah Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Virginia Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Washington Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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Wyoming Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
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British Commonwealth Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Australia Business Cards and Advertisements
Canada Business Cards and Advertisements
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Professor York offered free tea cup readings at the Hotel York Coffee Shop in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Calgary Herald newspaper ad, May 19th, 1934. Thanks to Dixie M. Ford for bringing Professor Usher to my attention. For more information about Professor George Usher, see the page on Having Your Fortune Told At a Tea Room.
England Business Cards and Advertisements
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The Ellikan Tea Rooms, 7 Crawford Street, W. 1, London, England; magazine advertisement. Mrs. Ellen Kreuger, proprietress offered All kinds of Swedish Bread, Cakes, and other specialties and served "Morning Coffee, Delicious Shopping Lunches, and dainty Teas." Her slogan was, "Meet your friends at Ellikans."
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Fuller's Tea Rooms magazine advertisement, 1921. This chain of "Most Comfortable Tea Rooms" grew out of Fuller's Ltd., a company that provided in Sweets, Cakes, and Chocolates with "agents in all principal towns." At the time that this advertisement was published, the Fuller's outlets that featured tea room service numbered 28 in London, 5 in Liverpool, and 1 each in another 16 cities in England and Scotland, for a total of 49 locations.
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The Jap Tea Rooms, 35, Northgate, Gloucester, England; A. M. Latter, proprietor; 1907 magazine advertisement. Like quite a few early 20th century tea rooms, this one began its existence as a confectionary or sweets shop which sold ices during the summer months and added sit-down tea service during the tea room craze. The window signage advertises Cadbury Chocolates, with a large display. The name "Jap," now considered offensive, derogatory, and disrespectful, was in 1907 little more than a shortened reference to Japan, the provenance of the type of tea being served, the other types being Chinese and Indian.
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Old English Tea Rooms
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The Saxon Bridge Luncheon and Tea Rooms, Polperro, Cornwall, England,was located near the Bus Terminus. The proprietress, D. Ede, offered modest prices, catered for parties, and specialized in morning coffee, hot and cold luncheons, Cornish cream teas, suppers, and Cornish cream ices." Cornish cream, also known as Devonshire cream and clotted cream, is a thick dairy product made by heating full-cream cow's milk with steam heat or in a water bath and placing it in shallow pans to slowly cool. It combines the velvety texture of crème Fraiche or Greak yoghurt with the fatty richness of butter or whipped cream.
Ireland Business Cards and Advertisements
Scotland Business Cards and Advertisements
Europe Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements
Switzerland Business Cards and Advertisements
If the number of business cards grows too great for one page, they will be broken out into individual state lists, as with the Vintage Tea Room Postcards.
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room