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- Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 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 Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 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.
- Pitcher, circa 1825 - Pewter goods could be found in many American homes and public buildings in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Most Americans of modest means could afford to have pewter spoons, tankards, dishes, plates or other items, such as this covered pitcher.
- circa 1825
- Collections - Artifact
Pitcher, circa 1825
Pewter goods could be found in many American homes and public buildings in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Most Americans of modest means could afford to have pewter spoons, tankards, dishes, plates or other items, such as this covered pitcher.
- Syrup Jug, 1885-1893 - Nineteenth-century Americans who could not afford refined white sugar found a sweet alternative with molasses or maple syrup. Syrup jugs or pitchers with their dripless metal pouring spouts held the slow-pouring, sugary liquid. These pressed or mold-blown glass containers became a common fixture on many middle-class Victorian Americans' tables.
- 1885-1893
- Collections - Artifact
Syrup Jug, 1885-1893
Nineteenth-century Americans who could not afford refined white sugar found a sweet alternative with molasses or maple syrup. Syrup jugs or pitchers with their dripless metal pouring spouts held the slow-pouring, sugary liquid. These pressed or mold-blown glass containers became a common fixture on many middle-class Victorian Americans' tables.
- Aunt Jemima Lite Syrup Packaging, 2019-2020 -
- 2019-2020
- Collections - Artifact
Aunt Jemima Lite Syrup Packaging, 2019-2020
- Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Door Signs, 1920-1929 -
- 1920-1929
- Collections - Artifact
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Door Signs, 1920-1929
- Syrup Pitcher -
- Collections - Artifact
Syrup Pitcher
- Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 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 Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 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.
- Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 1886 - 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.
- 1886
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, Rheumatic Syrup Company, 1886
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.
- Syrup Pitcher, circa 1940 -
- circa 1940
- Collections - Artifact
Syrup Pitcher, circa 1940