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- Girard College Boys with Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of students, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- October 06, 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Girard College Boys with Tractor, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of students, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- Girard College Boys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of students, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- October 06, 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Girard College Boys at Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company poured resources into the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, spending more than $5 million to construct and maintain its elaborate and well-attended exhibition space. Ford hosted many special guests during the two-year event--including this energetic group of students, who numbered among the reported 15 million fairgoers to visit the company's exposition.
- Trade Card for Solar Tip Shoes, John Mundell & Co., 1878-1890 - 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.
- 1878
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Solar Tip Shoes, John Mundell & Co., 1878-1890
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.
- Girard College Boys at Menlo Park Machine Shop Exhibit, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939 - Ford Motor Company executives knew only 1 in 5 Americans would attend the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. They planned for even fewer to visit the Ford exposition, and allocated more than $300,000 to publicize Ford's involvement at the fair. To ensure national coverage, a dedicated Press Department regularly distributed photographs of the Ford exhibit to thousands of publications across the country.
- October 06, 1939
- Collections - Artifact
Girard College Boys at Menlo Park Machine Shop Exhibit, Ford Exposition, New York World's Fair, 1939
Ford Motor Company executives knew only 1 in 5 Americans would attend the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. They planned for even fewer to visit the Ford exposition, and allocated more than $300,000 to publicize Ford's involvement at the fair. To ensure national coverage, a dedicated Press Department regularly distributed photographs of the Ford exhibit to thousands of publications across the country.