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- Ford Automobile in Gold Coast, West Africa, and Tambourine Mountain, Australia, 1917 - First printed in 1908, <em>Ford Times</em> was published by Ford Motor Company and distributed to readers free of charge. Editors often featured stories about Ford vehicles in use around the world. The February 1917 issue included photos of Fords in West Africa and Australia. The photo caption reveals racist biases and a colonial mindset toward native African inhabitants.
- 1917
- Collections - Artifact
Ford Automobile in Gold Coast, West Africa, and Tambourine Mountain, Australia, 1917
First printed in 1908, Ford Times was published by Ford Motor Company and distributed to readers free of charge. Editors often featured stories about Ford vehicles in use around the world. The February 1917 issue included photos of Fords in West Africa and Australia. The photo caption reveals racist biases and a colonial mindset toward native African inhabitants.
- Trade Card for Fleischmann & 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 Fleischmann & 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 Columbia Chilled Plow, Copake Iron Works, 1889 - 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.
- 1889
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Columbia Chilled Plow, Copake Iron Works, 1889
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.