Trade Card for Shaker Soothing Plasters, A. J. White, 1891

Summary

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.

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

Trade card

Date Made

1891

Subject Date

1891

Creators

A.J. White 

Place of Creation

United States, New York, New York 

Creator Notes

Advertised product manufactured by A. J. White, New York City.

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

89.0.541.41

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 5 in

Width: 3 in

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