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- Trade Card for Milliner W. H. Hallenbeck, 1894-1898 - 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.
- 1894-1898
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Milliner W. H. Hallenbeck, 1894-1898
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.
- Advertising Poster, United Airlines at Seattle World's Fair, circa 1962 - Through the 1950s and 1960s, air travel retained a sense of glamour and sophistication. Some of that excitement was due to sleek travel posters advertising fashionable destinations. This poster, from United Airlines, promoted the Century 21 Exposition -- commonly called the Seattle World's Fair -- held in Seattle, Washington, in 1962.
- 1962
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Poster, United Airlines at Seattle World's Fair, circa 1962
Through the 1950s and 1960s, air travel retained a sense of glamour and sophistication. Some of that excitement was due to sleek travel posters advertising fashionable destinations. This poster, from United Airlines, promoted the Century 21 Exposition -- commonly called the Seattle World's Fair -- held in Seattle, Washington, in 1962.