Trade Card for A. H. Kimball, Manufacturer of Invalid Wheel Chairs, circa 1900

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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 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.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Trade card

Date Made

circa 1900

Subject Date

circa 1900

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

RC.25.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Card stock

Technique

Printing (Process)
Engraving (Printing process)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Red

Dimensions

Height: 2.625 in
Width: 4.5 in

Inscriptions

text on front: A. H. KIMBALL / Invalid Wheel Chairs / FOR OUTDOOR AND INDOOR USE / Chairs for Special Cases Made to Order / Hospital and Surgical Novelties in Bent Wood / REAR 24 CLINTON ST., EVERETT, MASS.