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- Trade Card for Glenwood Ranges and Parlor Stoves, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 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.
- circa 1882
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Glenwood Ranges and Parlor Stoves, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 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.
- Cigarette Vending Machine at Hickey's Diner, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1966-1986 -
- 1966-1986
- Collections - Artifact
Cigarette Vending Machine at Hickey's Diner, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1966-1986
- Hickey's Diner, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1986 -
- 1986
- Collections - Artifact
Hickey's Diner, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1986
- Torch Lake Steam Locomotive, 1873 - <em>Torch Lake</em>, built by Mason Machine Works in 1873, hauled ore for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. This builder's photograph shows the locomotive shortly after its completion at Mason's Taunton, Massachusetts, factory. Mason produced more than 750 steam locomotives between 1853 and 1889. <em>Torch Lake</em> joined The Henry Ford's collection in 1969.
- August 01, 1969
- Collections - Artifact
Torch Lake Steam Locomotive, 1873
Torch Lake, built by Mason Machine Works in 1873, hauled ore for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. This builder's photograph shows the locomotive shortly after its completion at Mason's Taunton, Massachusetts, factory. Mason produced more than 750 steam locomotives between 1853 and 1889. Torch Lake joined The Henry Ford's collection in 1969.
- Workers inside the Spooling Room, Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1907-1910 -
- 1907-1910
- Collections - Artifact
Workers inside the Spooling Room, Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1907-1910
- Workers outside a Factory, Most Likely Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1890 -
- circa 1890
- Collections - Artifact
Workers outside a Factory, Most Likely Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, circa 1890
- Workers outside Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1895-1897 -
- 1895-1897
- Collections - Artifact
Workers outside Oakland Mill, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1895-1897
- Oakland Mill in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1896 -
- 1896
- Collections - Artifact
Oakland Mill in Taunton, Massachusetts, 1896