Trade Card for Peerless Traction Engine and Thresher, Geiser Manufacturing Company, July 28 to August 2, 1893

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.