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- Trade Card for Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Celluloid Co., 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 Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Celluloid Co., 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.
- Trade Card for Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Celluloid Co., 1870-1895 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises Celluloid Waterproof Collars, Cuffs & Shirt Bosoms.
- 1870-1895
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Celluloid Collars and Cuffs, Celluloid Co., 1870-1895
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises Celluloid Waterproof Collars, Cuffs & Shirt Bosoms.