Trade Card for Lorillard's "Splendid" Plug Tobacco, 1886, "In Fair Weather and Foul"
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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
1886
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
90.0.281.24
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.125 in
Width: 5 in
Inscriptions
front:
CHEW LORILLARD'S "SPLENDID" PLUG TOBACCO IN FAIR WEATHER & FOUL. / THE UNITED STATES STORM & WEATHER SIGNALS DISPLAYED ON RECEIPT OF TELEGRAMS FROM THE METEOROLOGICAL BUREAU. / THE SIGNALS INDICATE THE WEATHER EXPECTED FOR 24 HOURS FROM THE TIME THEY ARE DISPLAYED. NO MATTER WHICH OF THE SIGNALS ARE FLYING LORILLARDS "SPLENDID" PLUG TOBACCO IS THE ONE TO CHEW.
back:
CHANGES IN WEATHER HAVE NO EFFECT UPON LORILLARD'S "SPLENDID" PLUG TOBACCO / IT IS THE BEST "CHEW" UNDER ALL CONDITIONS OF WEATHER.
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