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- Portrait of 1st Lieutenant DeLoss C. LeBaron, 18th Michigan Infantry, Company B, 1865 - A.J. Hoag of Tecumseh, Michigan, made this bust portrait of Union Army infantry officer DeLoss C. LeBaron. Professional photographers made cartes-de-visite beginning in the 1860s. Mounted on small cardboard stock, these early photographic prints proved popular in the United States from the Civil War through the 1880s. Americans exchanged and collected CdVs to help them remember family and celebrities.
- 1865
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of 1st Lieutenant DeLoss C. LeBaron, 18th Michigan Infantry, Company B, 1865
A.J. Hoag of Tecumseh, Michigan, made this bust portrait of Union Army infantry officer DeLoss C. LeBaron. Professional photographers made cartes-de-visite beginning in the 1860s. Mounted on small cardboard stock, these early photographic prints proved popular in the United States from the Civil War through the 1880s. Americans exchanged and collected CdVs to help them remember family and celebrities.
- Steam Boiler, Used at the Tripp Sawmill, 1851-1880 -
- 1851-1880
- Collections - Artifact
Steam Boiler, Used at the Tripp Sawmill, 1851-1880
- Hog Ringing Pliers -
- Collections - Artifact
Hog Ringing Pliers
- H. Brewer and Company Brick Machine, circa 1865 -
- circa 1865
- Collections - Artifact
H. Brewer and Company Brick Machine, circa 1865
- Trade Card for H. W. Stevens, Real Estate Agency, "Homes in the Village of Tecumseh," 1870-1890 - 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 often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for H. W. Stevens, Real Estate Agency, "Homes in the Village of Tecumseh," 1870-1890
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 often saved the informative little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.