Trade Card for Heating Stoves, Raymond & Campbell, 1880-1890
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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
1880-1895
Subject Date
1880-1895
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Pennsylvania, Middletown
United States, Pennsylvania, Elliottsburg
Creator Notes
Product manufactured by Raymond & Campbell (Middletown, Pennsylvania). Sold by D. J. Kell (Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania).
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
90.0.281.222
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.5 in
Width: 4.25 in