Trade Card for Children's Leather Shoe Tips, American Shoe Tip Co., 1870-1900
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In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often playful little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often playful little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1870-1900
Subject Date
1870-1900
Creators
American Shoe Tip Company (A.S.T. Company)
Place of Creation
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
United States, Massachusetts, Westfield
United States, New York, Five Points
Creator Notes
Advertisied product manufactured by American Shoe Tip Co. Boston, Massachusetts, sold by F. L. Childs, Westfield, Massachusetts. Card printed by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York.
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.541.34
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.25 in
Width: 5.063 in
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