Trade Card for C. M. Henderson & Company Boots and Shoes, circa 1900
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Trade cards were advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card offers a glimpse of a rural schoolyard and the students' recess activities. Girls talk, while one holds a hoop toy. Boys play leapfrog and perhaps jacks on the grass. Note that the children are not closely supervised.
Trade cards were advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card offers a glimpse of a rural schoolyard and the students' recess activities. Girls talk, while one holds a hoop toy. Boys play leapfrog and perhaps jacks on the grass. Note that the children are not closely supervised.
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1890-1900
Subject Date
1890-1900
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Illinois, Chicago
United States, Michigan, Hudson
Creator Notes
Advertised product manufactured by C. M. Henderson & Co., Chicago, Illinois, and sold by R. A. Beach, Hudson, Michigan.
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Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.541.335
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 5.5 in
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