Trade Card for Keystone "Roll-Up" Spring Mattress, Keystone, 1881
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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 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
1881
Subject Date
1881
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
89.0.541.1207
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 2.875 in
Width: 5 in
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