Vintage Tea Room Business Cards

From Mystic Tea Room

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 Menus: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
Vintage Tea Room Business Cards: These are listed on one page, alphabetical first by state and then by tea room name
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

Arkansas Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

California Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Colorado Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Connecticut Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Olympia Tea Room, London, Connecticut, business card.

Delaware Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Florida Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

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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Indiana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

The Robinson Tea Shoppe Tourist Rooms, Gary, Indiana, business card with blotter back.

Iowa Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Kansas Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Kentucky Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Ko-Z Tea Room, Smiths Grove, Kentucky, newspaper ad, 1939.

Louisiana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Maine Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Maryland Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Massachusetts Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

The Wishing Cup Tea Room, Boston, Massachusetts, business card. Tea Leaf Readings 50 cents by Ross, formerly of the Gypsy Tea Shop, he also offered card readings.

The Original Tremont Tea Room, Boston, Massachusetts, business card. Tea Leaf Readings 75 cents.

Michigan Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Newspaper advertisement for the Bohemian Cave Tea Room in Detroit, Michigan, which offered tea leaf readings with meals.

While not strictly a business card or magazine ad, this glass ashtray from the Devon Gables Tea Room in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, qualifies as a nice piece of tea room advertising ephemera.

Private-labeled sugar cube for the Devon Gables Tea Room in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1930s.

Minnesota Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Mississippi Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Missouri Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Egyptian Tea Room, Kansas City, Missouri, where Don Luis, "the Boy Who Sees Tomorrow," provides free readings.

Montana Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Nebraska Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Nevada Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

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

Gypsy Tea Kettle, New York City, New York, business card. Prof. Punditjee offers a free palmistry reading with meal. The Gypsy Tea Kettle had three locations in New York at this time.

North Carolina Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

North Dakota Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Ohio Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Oklahoma Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Oregon Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Pennsylvania Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Rhode Island Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

South Carolina Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

South Dakota Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Tennessee Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Texas Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Utah Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Vermont Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Virginia Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Washington Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

West Virginia Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Wisconsin Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Wyoming Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

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Madame Evelyn reads tea leaves at the Spanish Court Tea Room, location unknown, newspaper advertisement. Tea Leaf readings free with meal.

British Commonwealth Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Australia Business Cards and Advertisements

Canada Business Cards and Advertisements

Professor Usher 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

The Ellikan Tea Rooms, London, England, business card, Mrs. Ellen Kreuger, proprietress.

Norman Palace Tea Rooms, Winchester, England, magazine advertisement, 1913.

Ireland Business Cards and Advertisements

The Suffrage Tea Room, Dublin, Ireland, advertisement.

Scotland Business Cards and Advertisements

Europe Tea Room Business Cards and Advertisements

Switzerland Business Cards and Advertisements

Kunzi Cafe Tea Room, Locarno, Switzerland, oversized linen business card, 1940s. Printed like a oversized linen-finish postcard, this is non-mailable, so it must be considered a very large business card.

Kunzi Cafe Tea Room, Locarno, Switzerland, oversized business card, back.

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