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- Handwritten Notes for "The House by the Side of the Road" -
- Collections - Artifact
Handwritten Notes for "The House by the Side of the Road"
- Trade Card for New Home Sewing Machines, "A 'New Home' or a Divorce, Take Your Choice," 1882-1900 - 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.
- 1882-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for New Home Sewing Machines, "A 'New Home' or a Divorce, Take Your Choice," 1882-1900
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.