Trade Card for Carriage & Buggy Paints, Peninsular White Lead & Color Works, 1880-1900
THF225163 / Trade Card for Carriage & Buggy Paints, Peninsular White Lead & Color Works, 1880-1900
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Artifact Overview
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.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Trade card
Date Made
1880-1900
Subject Date
1880-1900
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
90.0.281.39
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3.5 in
Width: 6 in
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