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- Postcard Showing 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500KR - Ford's Mustang GT500KR debuted in the middle of the 1968 model year. Modified by Carroll Shelby's own Shelby American performance vehicles team, the car boasted a 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet V-8 engine officially (but conservatively) rated at 335 horsepower. The initials "KR" stood for "King of the Road" -- a credible claim for this muscle car.
- 1968
- Collections - Artifact
Postcard Showing 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500KR
Ford's Mustang GT500KR debuted in the middle of the 1968 model year. Modified by Carroll Shelby's own Shelby American performance vehicles team, the car boasted a 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet V-8 engine officially (but conservatively) rated at 335 horsepower. The initials "KR" stood for "King of the Road" -- a credible claim for this muscle car.
- Trade Card for Duryea's Glen Cove Starch Company, 1824-1874 - 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 Duryea's Glen Cove Starch Company, 1824-1874
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.
- H.L. & C.B. Gruman Stove, circa 1868 -
- circa 1868
- Collections - Artifact
H.L. & C.B. Gruman Stove, circa 1868
- Trade Card for Duryea's Glen Cove Starch Company, 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 Duryea's Glen Cove Starch Company, 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.