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- Burrall Corn Sheller No. 2, circa 1875 -
- circa 1875
- Collections - Artifact
Burrall Corn Sheller No. 2, circa 1875
- Scissors -
- 1960-1969
- Collections - Artifact
Scissors
- Trade Card for Button's Raven Gloss Shoe Dressing, Button & Ottley, 1870-1890 - 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.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Button's Raven Gloss Shoe Dressing, Button & Ottley, 1870-1890
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.
- Cradle Scythe, circa 1860 - Nineteenth-century farmers needed to harvest grain quickly before time or weather could destroy it. Harvesters would swing the cradle scythe's blade through ripened fields. The cut grain would fall onto the wooden fingers -- the cradle -- where it would be dumped in neat rows ready for gathering. Skilled cradlers could harvest more grain than those using traditional sickles.
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Cradle Scythe, circa 1860
Nineteenth-century farmers needed to harvest grain quickly before time or weather could destroy it. Harvesters would swing the cradle scythe's blade through ripened fields. The cut grain would fall onto the wooden fingers -- the cradle -- where it would be dumped in neat rows ready for gathering. Skilled cradlers could harvest more grain than those using traditional sickles.
- Trade Card for Dr. McLanes Celebrated Liver Pills, Fleming Bros., National Yeast Co., 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 Dr. McLanes Celebrated Liver Pills, Fleming Bros., National Yeast Co., 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.
- Trade Card for Superior Vegetable National Dry Hop Yeast, National Yeast Co., circa 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.
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Superior Vegetable National Dry Hop Yeast, National Yeast Co., circa 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.