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- Trade Card for Nautical and Optical Instruments, Samuel Thaxter & Son, 1886 - 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.
- 1886
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Nautical and Optical Instruments, Samuel Thaxter & Son, 1886
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.
- The Farmers and Dairymans Almanac for the Year 1852 - Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to agriculture, health, politics, astronomical events, and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Publishers of this almanac touted its astronomical calculations by the principal of the New York State Normal School, perhaps to influence customers to choose this almanac.
- 1852
- Collections - Artifact
The Farmers and Dairymans Almanac for the Year 1852
Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to agriculture, health, politics, astronomical events, and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Publishers of this almanac touted its astronomical calculations by the principal of the New York State Normal School, perhaps to influence customers to choose this almanac.