Trade Card for Sundstrand Adding and Calculating Machine, Sundstrand Adding Machine Co., circa 1920
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Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.
Writing with a quill, metal nib or fountain pen could be messy. Ink could smear or smudge with the slightest touch. In America by the late 1800s absorbent paper blotters became the preferred method to soak up wet ink. Companies produced small inexpensive blotters as advertisements and giveaways well into the twentieth century.
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
circa 1920
Subject Date
circa 1920
Creators
Sundstrand Adding Machine Company
Place of Creation
United States, Illinois, Rockford
Creator Notes
Product manufactured by the Sundstrand Adding Machine Co. (Rockford, Illinois). Sold by Paul D. Owen (Troy, New York).
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
87.7.7.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.25 in
Width: 6.5 in
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