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- Trade Card for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Pearlicross Coffee and York's Favorite Coffee, 1899 - 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.
- 1901
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Pearlicross Coffee and York's Favorite Coffee, 1899
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.
- Globe, Used by Edsel Ford, 1935 -
- 1935
- Collections - Artifact
Globe, Used by Edsel Ford, 1935
- Lithograph, "Washington Family," circa 1845 -
- circa 1845
- Collections - Artifact
Lithograph, "Washington Family," circa 1845