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- Trade Card for Men's and Children's Overcoats, A. L. Foster & Co., 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Men's and Children's Overcoats, A. L. Foster & Co., 1880-1900
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.
- Overcoat, 1965 -
- 1965
- Collections - Artifact
Overcoat, 1965
- Evening Coat, Worn by Harvey Firestone, Jr., 1940 -
- 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Evening Coat, Worn by Harvey Firestone, Jr., 1940
- Duster, Used by Clara Ford -
- 1905-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Duster, Used by Clara Ford
- Trade Card for A. L. Foster & Co. Overcoats, 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for A. L. Foster & Co. Overcoats, 1880-1900
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.
- "Ford Performance" Raincoat, Issued to Kevin Kennedy for 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2016 - Ford Motor Company returned to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016. Drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Joey Hand, and Dirk Muller won their class with the #68 Ford GT exactly 50 years after Ford's first victory in the celebrated French endurance race. Public-relations representative Kevin Kennedy wore this raincoat, branded with the Ford Performance logo, at the 2016 race.
- 2016
- Collections - Artifact
"Ford Performance" Raincoat, Issued to Kevin Kennedy for 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2016
Ford Motor Company returned to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016. Drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Joey Hand, and Dirk Muller won their class with the #68 Ford GT exactly 50 years after Ford's first victory in the celebrated French endurance race. Public-relations representative Kevin Kennedy wore this raincoat, branded with the Ford Performance logo, at the 2016 race.
- Portrait of a Fashionably Dressed Man, circa 1875 - Tintype photographs peaked in popularity in the mid-19 century. Lacquered iron plates coated with light-sensitive collodion were exposed in cameras by photographers in formal studios and mobile booths at fairs. Compared to other processes, tintypes were inexpensive and could be produced in minutes--"instant photographs" of their day. Durable and lightweight, Civil War soldiers carried them as mementos of home.
- circa 1875
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of a Fashionably Dressed Man, circa 1875
Tintype photographs peaked in popularity in the mid-19 century. Lacquered iron plates coated with light-sensitive collodion were exposed in cameras by photographers in formal studios and mobile booths at fairs. Compared to other processes, tintypes were inexpensive and could be produced in minutes--"instant photographs" of their day. Durable and lightweight, Civil War soldiers carried them as mementos of home.
- Trade Card for Men's and Children's Overcoats, A. L. Foster & Co., 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Men's and Children's Overcoats, A. L. Foster & Co., 1880-1900
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.