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- Kalamazoo Corset Company "American Beauty Style 626" Corsets, 1891-1922 -
- 1900-1922
- Collections - Artifact
Kalamazoo Corset Company "American Beauty Style 626" Corsets, 1891-1922
- Bound Volume, The Ladies' Home Journal, 1896-1897 -
- December 1896 - November 1897
- Collections - Artifact
Bound Volume, The Ladies' Home Journal, 1896-1897
- Larkin Company Catalog, "Stylish Wearing Apparel Given as Premiums with the Larkin Products," Spring/Summer 1908 - John D. Larkin established a soap manufacturing company in 1875. He hired his brother-in-law, Elbert Hubbard, as a salesman. Hubbard developed "The Larkin Idea," a plan that sold goods directly to consumers through mail-order catalogs and offered incentivizing giveaways. It was a success. By the early 1900s, Larkin's catalogs contained pages of products and even more pages of premiums from which customers could choose.
- 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Larkin Company Catalog, "Stylish Wearing Apparel Given as Premiums with the Larkin Products," Spring/Summer 1908
John D. Larkin established a soap manufacturing company in 1875. He hired his brother-in-law, Elbert Hubbard, as a salesman. Hubbard developed "The Larkin Idea," a plan that sold goods directly to consumers through mail-order catalogs and offered incentivizing giveaways. It was a success. By the early 1900s, Larkin's catalogs contained pages of products and even more pages of premiums from which customers could choose.
- Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885 - The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885
The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885 - The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885
The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- Trade Card for Dr. Warner's Coraline Corsets, 1880-1890 - 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.
- 1880-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Dr. Warner's Coraline Corsets, 1880-1890
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.
- Kalamazoo Corset Company "Style 464" Corset, 1891-1922 -
- 1891-1922
- Collections - Artifact
Kalamazoo Corset Company "Style 464" Corset, 1891-1922
- Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885 - The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Duplex Corsets, Bortree Manufacturing Co., circa 1885
The hourglass figure deemed fashionable in the late 19th century was made possible by the use of extremely uncomfortable and constricting undergarments, especially the corset. The Bortree Manufacturing Company was similar to other corset manufacturers in its claim that its corsets were not only beautiful but also comfortable and healthful -- claims with which both physicians and health reformers vehemently disagreed.
- Trade Card for Chicago Waist Corsets, Gage Downs Company, 1893 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Chicago Waist Corsets, Gage Downs Company, 1893
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Kalamazoo Corset Company "Style 646" Corset, 1891-1922 -
- 1891-1922
- Collections - Artifact
Kalamazoo Corset Company "Style 646" Corset, 1891-1922