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- Trade Card for Wholesale Mill Supplies, Lansing Iron and Engine Works, 1885-1890 - 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.
- 1885-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Wholesale Mill Supplies, Lansing Iron and Engine Works, 1885-1890
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.
- Harris & Co. Catalog, "Boston Copper Weathervanes, Iron Crestings, and Lightning Rods," circa 1885 - Harris & Company manufactured copper weathervanes. Among this Boston, Massachusetts, firm's offerings were weathervane ornaments representing well-known racehorses. Customers could choose from six champions depicted in this catalog from the mid-1880s.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Harris & Co. Catalog, "Boston Copper Weathervanes, Iron Crestings, and Lightning Rods," circa 1885
Harris & Company manufactured copper weathervanes. Among this Boston, Massachusetts, firm's offerings were weathervane ornaments representing well-known racehorses. Customers could choose from six champions depicted in this catalog from the mid-1880s.
- Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 1886 - 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.
- 1886
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 1886
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.