Trade Card for Homestead Fertilizer, Michigan Carbon Works, 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, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant 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, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant 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
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Place of Creation
United States, Michigan, Detroit
Creator Notes
Advertised product by Michang Carbon Works, Detroit, Michigan. Card printed by Calvert Lithographing Co., also in Detroit.
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.541.1251
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3 in
Width: 4.75 in
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