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- Trade Card for C. M. Henderson & Company Boots and Shoes, circa 1900 - Trade cards were advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card offers a glimpse of a rural schoolyard and the students' recess activities. Girls talk, while one holds a hoop toy. Boys play leapfrog and perhaps jacks on the grass. Note that the children are not closely supervised.
- 1890-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for C. M. Henderson & Company Boots and Shoes, circa 1900
Trade cards were advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card offers a glimpse of a rural schoolyard and the students' recess activities. Girls talk, while one holds a hoop toy. Boys play leapfrog and perhaps jacks on the grass. Note that the children are not closely supervised.
- Trade Card for "School Shoes," C. M. Henderson & Company, circa 1885 - 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 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for "School Shoes," C. M. Henderson & Company, circa 1885
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.