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- Trade Card for Sulky Plows & Chilled Hand Plows, "How do I a'Pear?," 1887 - 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.
- 1887
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Sulky Plows & Chilled Hand Plows, "How do I a'Pear?," 1887
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.
- Sod-and-Subsoil Plow, circa 1880 -
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Sod-and-Subsoil Plow, circa 1880