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- Trade Card, Ball Bearings in Rear Wheel of Pope Toledo Car, Hess-Bright Manufacturing Co., circa 1905 - 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.
- circa 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card, Ball Bearings in Rear Wheel of Pope Toledo Car, Hess-Bright Manufacturing Co., circa 1905
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.
- Trade Card, Ball Bearings as Used for Sprocket Shaft Bevel Drive of the Pope Toledo Car, Hess-Bright Manufacturing Co., circa 1905 - 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.
- circa 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card, Ball Bearings as Used for Sprocket Shaft Bevel Drive of the Pope Toledo Car, Hess-Bright Manufacturing Co., circa 1905
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.
- Pope-Toledo Racing Car Driven by Bert Dingley in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Long Island, New York - Five American entries, including this car, joined 14 foreign automobiles in the second Vanderbilt Cup race. Although driver Bert Dingley won the American Elimination Trials that year in a different Pope-Toledo, he only managed a twelfth-place finish in the cup race with Pope-Toledo #3. A Darracq racing car driven by Victor Hemery captured the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup for France.
- 1905
- Collections - Artifact
Pope-Toledo Racing Car Driven by Bert Dingley in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race, Long Island, New York
Five American entries, including this car, joined 14 foreign automobiles in the second Vanderbilt Cup race. Although driver Bert Dingley won the American Elimination Trials that year in a different Pope-Toledo, he only managed a twelfth-place finish in the cup race with Pope-Toledo #3. A Darracq racing car driven by Victor Hemery captured the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup for France.