Trade Card for Hecker's Buckwheat, Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co., 1893
THF215312 / Trade Card for Hecker's Buckwheat, Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co., 1893
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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
1893
Subject Date
1893
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Advertised products made by Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co., New York, New York. Card lithographed by Giles Company in New York
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
89.0.541.861
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 5 in
Width: 3 in
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SetChildren's Furniture
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Children's furniture reflects changes in childrearing. Early American families wanted their children to mature quickly and work as soon as possible. A more romantic view of childhood took hold in the 1800s; well-to-do parents saw their children as precious and molded them for a successful life. In 20th-century America, parents continued to focus on childhood play and development, accepting new materials and modern design in children's furniture.