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- Trade Card for AMC Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for AMC Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1880-1900
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.
- Trade Card for A.M.C. Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1885-1895 - This trade card uses the cachet of the home telephone to market oatmeal as a luxury product. In the 1880s telephones were still new and expensive, used only by businesses, hotels, and the affluent. On the trade card, a well-dressed woman calls the operator from her classic three box wall phone, urgently requesting AMC cereal products. The newest technologies lent an air of status to everyday products.
- 1885-1895
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for A.M.C. Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1885-1895
This trade card uses the cachet of the home telephone to market oatmeal as a luxury product. In the 1880s telephones were still new and expensive, used only by businesses, hotels, and the affluent. On the trade card, a well-dressed woman calls the operator from her classic three box wall phone, urgently requesting AMC cereal products. The newest technologies lent an air of status to everyday products.
- Trade Card for AMC Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1884-1891 - Akron, Ohio, was an early flour-producing center, with rival mills dating back to the 1830s. The Akron Milling Company, founded in 1884, specialized in flour, rolled oats, farina, hominy grits, and other grains related to the new public interest in hot breakfast cereals. Their individually packaged products stood out in grocery stores, as most food was still sold in bulk.
- 1884-1891
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for AMC Perfect Cereals, Akron Milling Company, 1884-1891
Akron, Ohio, was an early flour-producing center, with rival mills dating back to the 1830s. The Akron Milling Company, founded in 1884, specialized in flour, rolled oats, farina, hominy grits, and other grains related to the new public interest in hot breakfast cereals. Their individually packaged products stood out in grocery stores, as most food was still sold in bulk.