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- Advertising Poster, Grocery Boy Holding Melons, 1901 -
- 1901
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Poster, Grocery Boy Holding Melons, 1901
- Western Union Telegraph Company Messenger, circa 1885 - In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, young boys (and sometimes girls) rushed messages to and from telegraph offices. These messengers -- some as young as ten -- worked long days speeding vital information to customers' family, friends, or business associates. This young lad, dressed in a Western Union jacket and apparently holding a notepad, probably spent some of his meager earnings to have this photograph made.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Western Union Telegraph Company Messenger, circa 1885
In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, young boys (and sometimes girls) rushed messages to and from telegraph offices. These messengers -- some as young as ten -- worked long days speeding vital information to customers' family, friends, or business associates. This young lad, dressed in a Western Union jacket and apparently holding a notepad, probably spent some of his meager earnings to have this photograph made.
- Trade Card for Rising Sun Stove Polish, Morse Bros., 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 Rising Sun Stove Polish, Morse Bros., 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.