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- Trade Card for Michigan Central and Great Western Railways, 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 Michigan Central and Great Western Railways, 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.
- Letter from J.W. Switzer, Michigan Central Railroad Co. regarding the Fair Lane Railroad Car, January 5, 1923 - Henry and Clara Ford took delivery of <em>Fair Lane</em>, their private railroad car, in 1921. In addition to fees for hauling the car from place to place, railroads charged parking fees when the car sat idle on their property. This letter concerned a charge of $3.60 for parking <em>Fair Lane</em> in Albany, New York, for a day in 1922.
- January 05, 1923
- Collections - Artifact
Letter from J.W. Switzer, Michigan Central Railroad Co. regarding the Fair Lane Railroad Car, January 5, 1923
Henry and Clara Ford took delivery of Fair Lane, their private railroad car, in 1921. In addition to fees for hauling the car from place to place, railroads charged parking fees when the car sat idle on their property. This letter concerned a charge of $3.60 for parking Fair Lane in Albany, New York, for a day in 1922.