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- Trade Card for Shaving and Toilet Soaps, J. B. Williams Company, 1875-1880 - 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 often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1875-1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Shaving and Toilet Soaps, J. B. Williams Company, 1875-1880
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 often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Tube of Burma-Shave, 1930-1945 - The Burma-Vita Company was one of the first companies to produce a brushless shaving cream. They began selling the grooming products -- packaged in jars and tubes -- in 1925, but it was their innovative advertising method that most people recall today. Roadside poems and humorous sayings -- Were this company's fame -- Gave drivers and auto tourists -- A way to remember their name -- Burma Shave.
- 1930-1945
- Collections - Artifact
Tube of Burma-Shave, 1930-1945
The Burma-Vita Company was one of the first companies to produce a brushless shaving cream. They began selling the grooming products -- packaged in jars and tubes -- in 1925, but it was their innovative advertising method that most people recall today. Roadside poems and humorous sayings -- Were this company's fame -- Gave drivers and auto tourists -- A way to remember their name -- Burma Shave.
- Jar for Burma-Shave, 1930-1945 - The Burma-Vita Company was one of the first companies to produce a brushless shaving cream. They began selling the grooming products -- packaged in jars and tubes -- in 1925, but it was their innovative advertising method that most people recall today. Roadside poems and humorous sayings -- Were this company's fame -- Gave drivers and auto tourists -- A way to remember their name -- Burma Shave.
- 1930-1945
- Collections - Artifact
Jar for Burma-Shave, 1930-1945
The Burma-Vita Company was one of the first companies to produce a brushless shaving cream. They began selling the grooming products -- packaged in jars and tubes -- in 1925, but it was their innovative advertising method that most people recall today. Roadside poems and humorous sayings -- Were this company's fame -- Gave drivers and auto tourists -- A way to remember their name -- Burma Shave.