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- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Burdett Organ Company.
- Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885 - Late-nineteenth-century manufacturers used trade cards to promote and sell products. These colorful advertisements also reflected the racial prejudices of the time. Card illustrators typically depicted African Americans with enlarged or distorted features, speaking with stereotypical language and often involved in some comical mishap. These images dehumanized blacks and affirmed the discriminatory biases many white Americans -- consumers of these trade cards -- held.
- 1880-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Burdett Organ Company, 1880-1885
Late-nineteenth-century manufacturers used trade cards to promote and sell products. These colorful advertisements also reflected the racial prejudices of the time. Card illustrators typically depicted African Americans with enlarged or distorted features, speaking with stereotypical language and often involved in some comical mishap. These images dehumanized blacks and affirmed the discriminatory biases many white Americans -- consumers of these trade cards -- held.