Gartner & Bender was a publishing company in Chicago, Illinois, that among other things produced art postcards - reproductions of original art work. These cards are unsigned and the artist remains unknown. The origin of this elusive unnumbered series of cards remains unclear. It was most probably introduced sometime between 1912 and 1915. The cards were certainly not issued by the Boy Scouts of America, and most likely they were authorized neither by that organization nor by one of its competitors. The cards show boys in unmistakable uniforms, but no insignia or other identifying marks are visible, and the word "Scout", which appears in each of the descriptions, appears to be carefully used in a generic sense. The themes for the cards seem to come from a mixture of the Scout Law, the Scout Slogan and requirements for various badges. In some cases the text does not seem to fit the picture.