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- Trade Card for Stylish Spring Clothing, A. L. Foster & Co., 1882 - 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.
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Stylish Spring Clothing, A. L. Foster & Co., 1882
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.
- Trade Card for Men's and Children's Suits, A. L. Foster & Co., "Contemplation," 1882 - Late-nineteenth-century trade card illustrators often depicted Indigenous people as "uncivilized savages." This card -- part of a set -- tells the story of two youths seeking adventure. The boys miscalculate and end up victims of their "heathen foe." This prejudicial view of Indigenous people reflected the view of many white, middle-class Americans, especially near the end of the American Indian Wars in the West.
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Men's and Children's Suits, A. L. Foster & Co., "Contemplation," 1882
Late-nineteenth-century trade card illustrators often depicted Indigenous people as "uncivilized savages." This card -- part of a set -- tells the story of two youths seeking adventure. The boys miscalculate and end up victims of their "heathen foe." This prejudicial view of Indigenous people reflected the view of many white, middle-class Americans, especially near the end of the American Indian Wars in the West.
- Trade Card for A. L. Foster & Co. Overcoats, 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for A. L. Foster & Co. Overcoats, 1880-1900
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.
- Trade Card for Stylish Spring Clothing, A. L. Foster & Co., 1882 - 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.
- 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Stylish Spring Clothing, A. L. Foster & Co., 1882
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.
- Trade Card for "Clark, 'The' Hatter," Chatham, New York, 1881 - 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.
- 1881
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for "Clark, 'The' Hatter," Chatham, New York, 1881
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.