Trade Card for Liddle & Stover Tailors, J.H. Bufford & Co., 1885

Summary

In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated 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 bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated 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

1885

Subject Date

1885

Creators

Liddle & Stover 

J.H. Bufford & Co. 

Place of Creation

United States, New York, Amsterdam 

Creator Notes

Liddle & Stover, tailors & furnishers; J. H. Bufford's Sons, publishers & lithographers.

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

89.0.541.1416

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7 in

Width: 4.5 in

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