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- Trade Card for Carriage & Buggy Paints, Peninsular White Lead & Color Works, 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 Carriage & Buggy Paints, Peninsular White Lead & Color Works, 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.
- Invoice from Farrand, Williams & Co., July 12, 1881 -
- July 12, 1881
- Collections - Artifact
Invoice from Farrand, Williams & Co., July 12, 1881
- Invoice from Farrand, Williams & Co., February 15, 1881 -
- February 15, 1881
- Collections - Artifact
Invoice from Farrand, Williams & Co., February 15, 1881
- Trade Card for Rainbow Dyes, Farrand, Williams & Co., 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 Rainbow Dyes, Farrand, Williams & Co., 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.