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- Trade Card for the New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad, 1878 - 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.
- circa 1878
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad, 1878
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.
- Standard Gauge Bogie Locomotive, New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad, 1883 -
- 1883
- Collections - Artifact
Standard Gauge Bogie Locomotive, New York and Manhattan Beach Railroad, 1883