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- Trade Card for Howe Scales, 1880-1890 - 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.
- 1880-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Howe Scales, 1880-1890
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.
- Centennial Exhibition Howe Scale Souvenir, 1876 - America's first official World's Fair celebrated the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Around ten million people visited Philadelphia during the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. Those who stopped to have themselves weighed at the Howe Scale Company exhibit in the exposition's Machinery Hall could return home with this souvenir token.
- 1876
- Collections - Artifact
Centennial Exhibition Howe Scale Souvenir, 1876
America's first official World's Fair celebrated the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Around ten million people visited Philadelphia during the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. Those who stopped to have themselves weighed at the Howe Scale Company exhibit in the exposition's Machinery Hall could return home with this souvenir token.