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- American Book Company Catalog, "Classified Price List of School and College Text-Books," 1896 - The American Book Company published school textbooks from the 1890s to the late 20th century. The company offered books that covered a wide range of subject matter from history, science and mathematics to music, language and penmanship. This 1890s price list provides a glimpse of the books available to school administrators.
- 1896
- Collections - Artifact
American Book Company Catalog, "Classified Price List of School and College Text-Books," 1896
The American Book Company published school textbooks from the 1890s to the late 20th century. The company offered books that covered a wide range of subject matter from history, science and mathematics to music, language and penmanship. This 1890s price list provides a glimpse of the books available to school administrators.
- Trade Card for Prang's Art and Educational Publications, L. Prang & Co., 1881 - 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.
- 1881
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Prang's Art and Educational Publications, L. Prang & Co., 1881
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.