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- Trade Card for the New Hub Range, Smith & Anthony Stove Co., 1870-1900 - 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.

- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the New Hub Range, Smith & Anthony Stove Co., 1870-1900
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.
- Trade Card for Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves, Ringen Stove Co., 1882-1901 - 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.

- 1882-1901
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves, Ringen Stove Co., 1882-1901
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 for Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves, Ringen Stove Co., 1882-1901 - 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.

- 1882-1901
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Quick Meal Gasoline Stoves, Ringen Stove Co., 1882-1901
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 for Live Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1875-1885 - 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.

- 1875-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Live Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1875-1885
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.
- Stove Tongs, 1877-1890 -

- 1877-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Stove Tongs, 1877-1890
- "Kerosene and Gas Cooking Apparatus," 1866 -

- 1866
- Collections - Artifact
"Kerosene and Gas Cooking Apparatus," 1866
- Parlor Stove from the Residence of John Greenleaf Whittier, circa 1830 -

- circa 1830
- Collections - Artifact
Parlor Stove from the Residence of John Greenleaf Whittier, circa 1830
- Magnolia Air-Tight Parlor Stove, 1854-1858 - Stoves were more efficient than open fireplaces--they used less fuel and heated rooms more effectively. By the 1840s, stove-making had become a big industry, as new manufacturing techniques made stoves stronger, lighter, and less expensive. Style mattered. People wanted their stoves to be eye-catching, as well as useful. The neighboring cities of Troy and Albany, New York, were America's "stove capitals" from 1830 to 1870.

- 1854-1858
- Collections - Artifact
Magnolia Air-Tight Parlor Stove, 1854-1858
Stoves were more efficient than open fireplaces--they used less fuel and heated rooms more effectively. By the 1840s, stove-making had become a big industry, as new manufacturing techniques made stoves stronger, lighter, and less expensive. Style mattered. People wanted their stoves to be eye-catching, as well as useful. The neighboring cities of Troy and Albany, New York, were America's "stove capitals" from 1830 to 1870.
- Franklin Stove, circa 1818 -

- circa 1818
- Collections - Artifact
Franklin Stove, circa 1818
- Parlor Stove, 1886 - This heating stove was intended to blend with furnishings made in the Victorian Aesthetic Movement. Aesthetic designers sought to transform Victorian taste away from popular revival styles toward something new and elegant. There was no single Aesthetic style, rather a common set of design motifs, including stylized botanical forms, and an interest in elegant decorative tiles, which appear on this stove.

- 1886
- Collections - Artifact
Parlor Stove, 1886
This heating stove was intended to blend with furnishings made in the Victorian Aesthetic Movement. Aesthetic designers sought to transform Victorian taste away from popular revival styles toward something new and elegant. There was no single Aesthetic style, rather a common set of design motifs, including stylized botanical forms, and an interest in elegant decorative tiles, which appear on this stove.