Trade Card for the United States Baking Company Featuring the French War Ship "Admiral Duperre, " 1889
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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
Subject Date
1889
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
B.F. Crawford was the general manager of the United States Baking Co.'s Mansfield, Ohio branch. Other branches in Detroit, Jackson, and Bay City, Michigan, as well as Toledo, Ohio.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
90.0.281.274
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Lithography
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.75 in
Width: 5 in
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