Trade Card for Lindenberger Brothers Cut-Rate Ticket Brokers, 1890-1900
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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 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 Details
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1890-1900
Subject Date
1889
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Printed by Ward Brothers, Columbus, Ohio for Lindenberger Brothers ticket brokers, Detroit, Michigan.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
84.13.27.43
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.063 in
Width: 4.688 in
Inscriptions
Text on front: PARIS / LA GALERIE DES MACHINES
Text on reverse reads: LINDENBERGER BROS.' CUT-RATE TICKET OFFICES. RUSSELL HOUSE, Opposite City Hall. WAYNE HOTEL Opposite M.C. Depot. DETROIT, MICH. MEMBERS AMERICAN TICKET BROKERS ASSOCIATION. EXCURSION TICKETS BOUGHT AND SOLD.
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