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- Pot - Cast iron pots, pans, kettles, skillets, and other utensils have been essential in American kitchens for centuries. Cooks used these utilitarian objects to prepare meals and heat water in hearths or -- by the mid-1800s -- atop coal or wood-burning stoves. Lighter and easier-to-clean materials began replacing heavy cast iron cookware beginning in the late 19th century, but cast iron still has a place in many cooks' kitchens.
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Pot
Cast iron pots, pans, kettles, skillets, and other utensils have been essential in American kitchens for centuries. Cooks used these utilitarian objects to prepare meals and heat water in hearths or -- by the mid-1800s -- atop coal or wood-burning stoves. Lighter and easier-to-clean materials began replacing heavy cast iron cookware beginning in the late 19th century, but cast iron still has a place in many cooks' kitchens.
- Trade Card for Acron Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Company, 1880-1890 - 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.
- 1880-1890
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Trade Card for Acron Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Company, 1880-1890
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.
- Kettle, 1865-1890 - Cast iron pots, pans, kettles, skillets, and other utensils have been essential in American kitchens for centuries. Cooks used these utilitarian objects to prepare meals and heat water in hearths or -- by the mid-1800s -- atop coal or wood-burning stoves. Lighter and easier-to-clean materials began replacing heavy cast iron cookware beginning in the late 19th century, but cast iron still has a place in many cooks' kitchens.
- 1865-1890
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Kettle, 1865-1890
Cast iron pots, pans, kettles, skillets, and other utensils have been essential in American kitchens for centuries. Cooks used these utilitarian objects to prepare meals and heat water in hearths or -- by the mid-1800s -- atop coal or wood-burning stoves. Lighter and easier-to-clean materials began replacing heavy cast iron cookware beginning in the late 19th century, but cast iron still has a place in many cooks' kitchens.
- Trade Card for Live Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1875-1885 - 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.
- 1875-1885
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Trade Card for Live Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1875-1885
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.
- Dr. F. G. Johnson's French Female Pills, 1840-1860 - Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, national legislation increasingly prohibited misleading health claims and required manufacturers to list their product's contents.
- 1840-1860
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Dr. F. G. Johnson's French Female Pills, 1840-1860
Nineteenth-century entrepreneurs promised cures with patent medicines. Some of these concoctions, however, contained harmful ingredients or ingredients used in unsafe quantities -- the industry was unregulated and manufacturers were secretive about their recipes. Beginning with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, national legislation increasingly prohibited misleading health claims and required manufacturers to list their product's contents.
- Letter from William B. Sprague to Joshua I. Cohen, October 11, 1841 - Joshua Cohen (1801-1870) collected autographs, historical documents, and colonial and Continental currency. Cohen, who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, corresponded and traded with other well-known 19th-century collectors from around the U.S. to amass his fine collection. In this letter, the renowned collector William B. Sprague writes that he has sent along several bills and the signatures of two of America's founding fathers.
- October 11, 1841
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Letter from William B. Sprague to Joshua I. Cohen, October 11, 1841
Joshua Cohen (1801-1870) collected autographs, historical documents, and colonial and Continental currency. Cohen, who lived in Baltimore, Maryland, corresponded and traded with other well-known 19th-century collectors from around the U.S. to amass his fine collection. In this letter, the renowned collector William B. Sprague writes that he has sent along several bills and the signatures of two of America's founding fathers.
- "Republicans Attend! To the Independent Electors of the State," 1804 -
- 1804
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"Republicans Attend! To the Independent Electors of the State," 1804
- Letter to John Trumbull from Elkanah Watson, February 15, 1825 - Elkanah Watson subscribed to purchase a print of John Trumbull's painting, <em>Declaration of Independence</em>. (The painting was commissioned for the U.S. Capitol and Trumbull authorized engravings to make extra money.) Watson had paid half, but was unable to complete his payment. In this letter, Watson appealed to Trumbull's "liberality" to either reimburse the amount already paid or wait for payment until Watson's "fortune shall be more propitious."
- February 15, 1825
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Letter to John Trumbull from Elkanah Watson, February 15, 1825
Elkanah Watson subscribed to purchase a print of John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence. (The painting was commissioned for the U.S. Capitol and Trumbull authorized engravings to make extra money.) Watson had paid half, but was unable to complete his payment. In this letter, Watson appealed to Trumbull's "liberality" to either reimburse the amount already paid or wait for payment until Watson's "fortune shall be more propitious."
- Trade Card for Acorn Oak Stove, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1885-1895 - 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.
- 1885-1895
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Trade Card for Acorn Oak Stove, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1885-1895
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.
- Trade Card for Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1887-1908 - 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.
- 1887-1908
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Trade Card for Acorn Stoves and Ranges, Rathbone, Sard & Co., 1887-1908
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.