Trade Card for Dutcher's Lightning Fly-Killer, 1870-1890
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Artifact Overview
This trade card features a flypaper knight vanquishing a huge fly. Dutcher's, a chemical company based in St. Albans's, Vermont, marketed its Lightning Fly-Killer by promising "annihilation of the buzzy tormentors." Consumers used Dutcher's and other popular brands of arsenical flypapers by soaking the paper in a dish of water for flies to drink. But arsenic was dangerous for humans, too, and flypaper caused some accidental fatalities.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1870-1890
Subject Date
1870-1890
Place of Creation
Creator Notes
Advertised product made by Frederick Dutcher of Saint Albans, Vermont. Card made by Baker Co., Chicago, Illinois
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
89.0.541.597
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3 in
Width: 5.25 in
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