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- "Enchanted Dragonflies" Quilt, Made by Patricia Orr, 2009 -
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
"Enchanted Dragonflies" Quilt, Made by Patricia Orr, 2009
- Trade Card for the Standard Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine, Standard Sewing Machine Co., 1880-1900 - As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Standard Sewing Machine Company.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Standard Rotary Shuttle Sewing Machine, Standard Sewing Machine Co., 1880-1900
As color printing gained momentum in the late 19th century, trade cards became a major means of advertising goods and services. Americans enjoyed and often saved the little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. This trade card advertises the Standard Sewing Machine Company.
- Young Girl Playing School with Dolls and a Peter Rabbit Stuffed Toy, circa 1920 -
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Young Girl Playing School with Dolls and a Peter Rabbit Stuffed Toy, circa 1920
- Ayer's American Almanac 1890 - Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.
- 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Ayer's American Almanac 1890
Almanacs contained practical information about the coming year. Readers normally found a calendar, weather predictions, tide schedules, and information related to astronomical events, agriculture, health, politics and other matters. Interspersed were jokes and witty sayings. Beginning in the late 1800s, James Cook Ayer, a keen advertiser and successful patent medicine dealer, published almanacs to entice the public to buy his line of products.