Tan paper covers with the title "The Round Oak Prospect Book," the logo, and a rectangle outlined with this wording inside it: "The Round Oak Folks will invest 47 cents to sell your customer, to the two cents necessary for mailing in his name." Inside cover tells how to make out a prospect slip with the balance of the booklet with three forms per page for prospect's name and address, which product he's interested in, remarks, etc.

H—8.35 W—5.5 D—0.15 inches

Round Oak collection of advertising materials found in donor's hardware store, Priestley Hardware of Princeton, IL. Family has owned the hardware store since the 1850s and carried Round Oak stoves and furnaces during that time.

2008—0008.0018

Booklet

Round Oak