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- Trade Card for Furniture and Carpet Store, Rudden's Instalment House, 1870-1900 - 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.
- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Furniture and Carpet Store, Rudden's Instalment House, 1870-1900
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.
- Bissell Cyco Ball Bearing Carpet Sweeper "Grand Rapids," 1897-1922 -
- 1897-1922
- Collections - Artifact
Bissell Cyco Ball Bearing Carpet Sweeper "Grand Rapids," 1897-1922
- Ingrain Carpet, 1890-1900 -
- 1890-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Ingrain Carpet, 1890-1900
- Bissell No. 5 Carpet Sweeper, 1881 -
- 1881
- Collections - Artifact
Bissell No. 5 Carpet Sweeper, 1881
- Carpet Sweeper -
- circa 1883
- Collections - Artifact
Carpet Sweeper
- Trade Card for Bissell Carpet Sweeper, circa 1880 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Some enterprising advertisers sought to distinguish their products from the competition by distributing trade cards. Special versions revealed hidden images and words when held to the light. Americans enjoyed and often saved the popular little advertisements, which survive as historical records of consumerism in the United States.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Bissell Carpet Sweeper, circa 1880
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods flooded the American market. Some enterprising advertisers sought to distinguish their products from the competition by distributing trade cards. Special versions revealed hidden images and words when held to the light. Americans enjoyed and often saved the popular little advertisements, which survive as historical records of consumerism in the United States.
- Trade Card for Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.'s Dry Goods, and Carpets, 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 Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.'s Dry Goods, and Carpets, 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 Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.'s Dry Goods, Cloaks, and Carpets, 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 Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.'s Dry Goods, Cloaks, and Carpets, 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.
- Carpet, 1940-1950 -
- 1940-1950
- Collections - Artifact
Carpet, 1940-1950
- French Wilton Rug, 1920 -
- 1920
- Collections - Artifact
French Wilton Rug, 1920