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- Trade Card for Estey Organ Company, circa 1880 - 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 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Estey Organ Company, circa 1880
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 Estey Organ Company, "The Estey Overture," 1880-1890 - 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.
- 1880-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Estey Organ Company, "The Estey Overture," 1880-1890
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.
- Estey New Salon Reed Organ, 1882 - Reed organs with elaborate casework graced the parlors of many middle-class Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century. Less expensive to purchase than pianos, parlor organs like this J. Estey and Co. "New Salon" model were made in the latest furniture styles.
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Estey New Salon Reed Organ, 1882
Reed organs with elaborate casework graced the parlors of many middle-class Americans during the last quarter of the 19th century. Less expensive to purchase than pianos, parlor organs like this J. Estey and Co. "New Salon" model were made in the latest furniture styles.