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- Chopping Knife with Trough -
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Chopping Knife with Trough
- Trade Card for McLaughlin's XXXX Coffee, W.F. McLaughlin & Co., 1892 - 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.
- 1892
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Trade Card for McLaughlin's XXXX Coffee, W.F. McLaughlin & Co., 1892
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.
- 1904 White Steamer Stopped to Take on Water from a Horse Trough - Steam engines powered the earliest cars, and steam vehicles outsold gasoline-powered cars into the 1900s. Steam power was safe, reliable, and familiar to Americans, although the range of steam-powered automobiles was limited by the amount of fuel and water they could carry. This resourceful driver stopped for water at a horse trough, part of the existing transportation infrastructure.
- circa 1906
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1904 White Steamer Stopped to Take on Water from a Horse Trough
Steam engines powered the earliest cars, and steam vehicles outsold gasoline-powered cars into the 1900s. Steam power was safe, reliable, and familiar to Americans, although the range of steam-powered automobiles was limited by the amount of fuel and water they could carry. This resourceful driver stopped for water at a horse trough, part of the existing transportation infrastructure.
- Linocut, "Cows Eating," 1952 -
- 1952
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Linocut, "Cows Eating," 1952
- Dough Trough, circa 1850 -
- circa 1850
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Dough Trough, circa 1850