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- "Royal Arms Brand Sliced Hawaiian Pineapple," 1930-1939 - Food companies sought ways to make their packaged goods stand out on store shelves from other similar products. Attractive labels, like this eye-catching design for Royal Arms brand sliced Hawaiian pineapple, helped catch the attention of potential customers and encouraged them to purchase the company's product rather than that of a competitor.
- 1930-1939
- Collections - Artifact
"Royal Arms Brand Sliced Hawaiian Pineapple," 1930-1939
Food companies sought ways to make their packaged goods stand out on store shelves from other similar products. Attractive labels, like this eye-catching design for Royal Arms brand sliced Hawaiian pineapple, helped catch the attention of potential customers and encouraged them to purchase the company's product rather than that of a competitor.
- Trade Card for Grocer, Clark & Ingham, with Sunday School Christmas Program on Back, Albany, New York, 1882 - 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.
- December 25, 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Grocer, Clark & Ingham, with Sunday School Christmas Program on Back, Albany, New York, 1882
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.
- Portrait of Ben Rensch, circa 1888 - A. Rensch & Co. was a family-owned specialty-import food store that opened in Toledo, Ohio, in 1882. Customers interested in exotic canned and bottled foods, hard-to-find teas and coffees, and all manner of imported meats and cheeses would have frequented a store like this. This digital image helps document the store's one-hundred-year history and the family's service to customers and community.
- circa 1888
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of Ben Rensch, circa 1888
A. Rensch & Co. was a family-owned specialty-import food store that opened in Toledo, Ohio, in 1882. Customers interested in exotic canned and bottled foods, hard-to-find teas and coffees, and all manner of imported meats and cheeses would have frequented a store like this. This digital image helps document the store's one-hundred-year history and the family's service to customers and community.
- "IGA Flakes Light Tuna" Can Label, 1950-1965 -
- 1950-1965
- Collections - Artifact
"IGA Flakes Light Tuna" Can Label, 1950-1965