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- Trade Card for Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam, 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 Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam, 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.
- Colgate Dental Cream, 1960 -
- 1960
- Collections - Artifact
Colgate Dental Cream, 1960
- Advertising Poster for Crest Toothpaste with Norman Rockwell Illustration, "Look Mom-No Cavities!," 1957 - One of Rockwell's most iconic advertising campaigns was Crest's "Look Mom-no cavities!" series in the late 1950s. His illustrations featured wholesome kids holding notes to mothers touting the child's good dental health. These were published in the <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>, <em>Reader's Digest</em>, <em>McCall's</em> and other magazines popular with women. This poster was likely made for a drug or specialty store display.
- 1957
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Poster for Crest Toothpaste with Norman Rockwell Illustration, "Look Mom-No Cavities!," 1957
One of Rockwell's most iconic advertising campaigns was Crest's "Look Mom-no cavities!" series in the late 1950s. His illustrations featured wholesome kids holding notes to mothers touting the child's good dental health. These were published in the Ladies' Home Journal, Reader's Digest, McCall's and other magazines popular with women. This poster was likely made for a drug or specialty store display.
- Ipana Toothpaste, 1960-1965 -
- 1960-1965
- Collections - Artifact
Ipana Toothpaste, 1960-1965
- Trade Card for Cressler's Wild Rose Tooth Powder and Fragrant Balm, 1885-1905 - 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.
- 1885-1905
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Cressler's Wild Rose Tooth Powder and Fragrant Balm, 1885-1905
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.