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- Trade Card for D. McCarthy & Sons Department Store, "Fibre Chamois: An Ideal Dress Lining," circa 1900 - 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 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for D. McCarthy & Sons Department Store, "Fibre Chamois: An Ideal Dress Lining," circa 1900
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.
- Lithograph, "Bird's Eye View - World's Columbian Exposition," 1893 - More than 25 million visitors attended the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The exposition grounds, south of the city along the Lake Michigan shoreline, covered 690 acres and included nearly 200 buildings representing 46 countries and 43 U.S. states and territories. An adjacent midway, separate from the exposition buildings, featured rides and amusements.
- 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Lithograph, "Bird's Eye View - World's Columbian Exposition," 1893
More than 25 million visitors attended the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The exposition grounds, south of the city along the Lake Michigan shoreline, covered 690 acres and included nearly 200 buildings representing 46 countries and 43 U.S. states and territories. An adjacent midway, separate from the exposition buildings, featured rides and amusements.