Trade Card for Halladay Windmills, U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Co., 1870-1900
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In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated 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 and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated 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
Place of Creation
United States, Illinois, Batavia
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Creator Notes
Product manufactured by the U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Co. (Batavia, Illinois). Sold by W. G. Rhoads (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Card published by Rand McNally and Company (Chicago, Illinois).
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
90.0.281.275
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3 in
Width: 4 in
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