Trade Card for "School Shoes," C. M. Henderson & Company, circa 1885
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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
circa 1885
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Illinois, Chicago
United States, Illinois, Lawn Ridge
Creator Notes
Product made by C. M. Henderson & Co., Chicago, Illinois, and sold by S. Cornell, Lawn Ridge, Illinois.
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.541.337
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 3 in
Width: 4.5 in
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