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- Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, February 1938 - Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- February 02, 1938
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Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, February 1938
Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- Two Circus Performers, circa 1890 - Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in an Erie, Pennsylvania, studio around 1890, features two circus performers.
- circa 1890
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Two Circus Performers, circa 1890
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in an Erie, Pennsylvania, studio around 1890, features two circus performers.
- Dallie Julian, Somersault Equestrienne, circa 1900 - Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made by noted circus photographer Frank Wendt around 1900, features a young equestrienne performer and her horse.
- circa 1900
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Dallie Julian, Somersault Equestrienne, circa 1900
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made by noted circus photographer Frank Wendt around 1900, features a young equestrienne performer and her horse.
- Thomas Rowe, Expansionist Circus Performer, circa 1895 - Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Detroit, Michigan, around 1895, depicts Thomas Rowe, a sideshow performer in the Walter L. Main Circus.
- circa 1895
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Thomas Rowe, Expansionist Circus Performer, circa 1895
Professional photographers began producing cabinet cards in 1867. Consumers quickly preferred them over earlier cartes-de-visite, which were mounted on smaller cardboard stock. Through the early 1900s, Americans commonly exchanged and collected cabinet photographs of family, friends and celebrities. This example, made in Detroit, Michigan, around 1895, depicts Thomas Rowe, a sideshow performer in the Walter L. Main Circus.
- Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, February 1938 - Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- February 02, 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, February 1938
Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, January 1938 - Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- January 27, 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, January 1938
Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, January 1938 - Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- January 27, 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Service Attendant Shows Customer Ford Accessories, January 1938
Ford Motor Company inaugurated a system of competing dealership franchises in 1914. Dealers sold Ford vehicles, offered repair services, and stocked spare parts and automobile accessories. Dealership parts and service departments lured customers with displays and advertisements. The department also served as a reminder to potential car buyers that the dealership provided extra services after the sale.
- Sales Brochure, "The Ford Cars are the Stars of the Show," 1905 - This 1905 Ford Motor Company sales brochure, like previous sales literature, continued to call Henry Ford's automobiles "The Car of Satisfaction." Ford set out to create a lightweight and inexpensive vehicle. Not satisfied with these early attempts, Ford continued to improve and innovate. In 1908, Ford created the vehicle he envisioned: the Model T.
- 1905
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Sales Brochure, "The Ford Cars are the Stars of the Show," 1905
This 1905 Ford Motor Company sales brochure, like previous sales literature, continued to call Henry Ford's automobiles "The Car of Satisfaction." Ford set out to create a lightweight and inexpensive vehicle. Not satisfied with these early attempts, Ford continued to improve and innovate. In 1908, Ford created the vehicle he envisioned: the Model T.
- Trick Cyclist Nicholas Kaufmann, Rochester, New York, 1884 - Nicholas Kaufmann was a world famous trick bicyclist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this 1884 photograph, Kaufmann balances on a monocycle -- one of many wheeled props he used to entertain audiences. He won numerous medals for his mastery of the bicycle. A showman as well as an athlete, he later traveled the theater circuit and managed other bicycle acts.
- 1884
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Trick Cyclist Nicholas Kaufmann, Rochester, New York, 1884
Nicholas Kaufmann was a world famous trick bicyclist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this 1884 photograph, Kaufmann balances on a monocycle -- one of many wheeled props he used to entertain audiences. He won numerous medals for his mastery of the bicycle. A showman as well as an athlete, he later traveled the theater circuit and managed other bicycle acts.
- Circus Performer Dolly Adams, "The Water Queen," circa 1880 - Circus performer Dolly Adams, nicknamed "The Water Queen," posed in her bathing suit for this carte-de-visite around 1880. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.
- circa 1880
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Circus Performer Dolly Adams, "The Water Queen," circa 1880
Circus performer Dolly Adams, nicknamed "The Water Queen," posed in her bathing suit for this carte-de-visite around 1880. The carte-de-visite was a small photographic print on cardboard stock made by professional photographers. People exchanged and collected cartes-de-visite, popular in the United States from the Civil War in the 1860s through the 1880s, to help them remember family and celebrities.