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- Dressmaking Scissors, Used by Angela Diblasi, 1940-1960 -
- 1940-1960
- Collections - Artifact
Dressmaking Scissors, Used by Angela Diblasi, 1940-1960
- Trade Card for Cutlery and Silverware, J. Wiss & Sons, "A Very Merry Christmas," 1870-1890 - 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.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Cutlery and Silverware, J. Wiss & Sons, "A Very Merry Christmas," 1870-1890
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.