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- Trade Card for Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company, "The Farm Yard," circa 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.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company, "The Farm Yard," circa 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.
- "Come All You True Born Democrats... And All You Good Republicans," 1880 - This 1880 political advertisement catered to both Democratic and Republican voters. With the flap turned up, the front displays an image of Samuel J. Tilden, who failed to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for President. Turn the flap down, and the image of Ulysses Grant, the unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Party's nomination, appears. Either way, the Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company wins.
- 1880
- Collections - Artifact
"Come All You True Born Democrats... And All You Good Republicans," 1880
This 1880 political advertisement catered to both Democratic and Republican voters. With the flap turned up, the front displays an image of Samuel J. Tilden, who failed to secure the Democratic Party's nomination for President. Turn the flap down, and the image of Ulysses Grant, the unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Party's nomination, appears. Either way, the Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Company wins.