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- Trade Card Advertising the Exhibition of George Washington's Carriage, W. Boell, 1876 - 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.
- 1876
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card Advertising the Exhibition of George Washington's Carriage, W. Boell, 1876
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.
- Two Story Horse-Drawn Streetcar, circa 1859 - In the mid-1800s, horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. This print shows a double-deck streetcar which could carry more passenger.
- circa 1859
- Collections - Artifact
Two Story Horse-Drawn Streetcar, circa 1859
In the mid-1800s, horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. This print shows a double-deck streetcar which could carry more passenger.
- "The Haddon Car," 1859 - Horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. Alexander Easton designed the "Haddon Car" for the Camden Haddonfield Passenger Railway in New Jersey. He later helped organize the Toronto (Canada) Street Railway in 1861.
- 1859
- Collections - Artifact
"The Haddon Car," 1859
Horse-drawn streetcars provided a convenient and affordable way to get around a growing city. These streetcars traveled the main urban thoroughfares and took passengers to their workplaces, local shops and businesses, parks and other destinations. Alexander Easton designed the "Haddon Car" for the Camden Haddonfield Passenger Railway in New Jersey. He later helped organize the Toronto (Canada) Street Railway in 1861.