Trade Card for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 1880-1900
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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
1880-1900
Subject Date
1880-1900
Creators
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Product manufactured by Clark's O.N.T., Newark New Jersey.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
89.0.541.198
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 5 in
Width: 7 in
Inscriptions
front, caption:
NIGHT ON THE SEA
front, seal in lower corner:
CLARK'S O.N.T. SPOOL COTTON.
reverse:
IF THE LADY WHO RECEIVES THIS CARD WILL BUY CLARK'S O.N.T. SPOOL COTTON SHE WILL GET THE CLARK'S O.N.T. SPOOL COTTON BEST THREAD FOR HAND & MACHINE SEWING. IT IS WOUND ON WHITE SPOOLS. THE ABOVE LABEL IS ON THE BOTTOM OF EVERY SPOOL.
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