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- Trade Card for Allen A. Rabineau, "Dry Goods for Cash," 1870-1900 - 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.
- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Allen A. Rabineau, "Dry Goods for Cash," 1870-1900
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.
- Trade Card for Rabineau's Dry Goods Store, Detroit, Michigan, 1875-1885 - 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.
- 1875-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Rabineau's Dry Goods Store, Detroit, Michigan, 1875-1885
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.
- Dry Goods Store, Ford Motor Company Plant, Pequaming, Michigan, 1926 - Ford Motor Company opened its first employee commissary in 1919. By purchasing groceries, dry goods and over-the-counter medicines in bulk, Ford obtained better prices -- savings which it then passed on to employees through its company stores. The lumbering village of Pequaming, essentially a Ford company town, was especially dependent on its commissary; it was the only store in the area.
- February 16, 1926
- Collections - Artifact
Dry Goods Store, Ford Motor Company Plant, Pequaming, Michigan, 1926
Ford Motor Company opened its first employee commissary in 1919. By purchasing groceries, dry goods and over-the-counter medicines in bulk, Ford obtained better prices -- savings which it then passed on to employees through its company stores. The lumbering village of Pequaming, essentially a Ford company town, was especially dependent on its commissary; it was the only store in the area.
- Trade Card for Baumgartner & Tindall Dry Goods Store, 1870-1900 - Business establishments during the 1870s to 1890s readily embraced illustrations of popular holidays to market their goods and services. Taking advantage of new color printing methods, companies placed these small trade cards in their product packages or sent them to local merchants to distribute. For advertising during the spring, they used images symbolic of the season, such as flowers, eggs, children, birds, and rabbits.
- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Baumgartner & Tindall Dry Goods Store, 1870-1900
Business establishments during the 1870s to 1890s readily embraced illustrations of popular holidays to market their goods and services. Taking advantage of new color printing methods, companies placed these small trade cards in their product packages or sent them to local merchants to distribute. For advertising during the spring, they used images symbolic of the season, such as flowers, eggs, children, birds, and rabbits.
- Trade Card for A. Bryson, "Dry and Fancy Goods," 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 A. Bryson, "Dry and Fancy Goods," 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.