Trade Card for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier, 1889-1900
THF259402 / Trade Card for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier, 1889-1900
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Artifact Overview
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 Details
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1889-1900
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
89.0.541.1450
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 4.625 in
Width: 3.25 in
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