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- Trade Card for Tweddle Hall Crockery Store, James Maher, 1860-1883 - 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.
- 1860-1883
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Tweddle Hall Crockery Store, James Maher, 1860-1883
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.
- Portrait of a Railroad Employee, circa 1885 -
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Portrait of a Railroad Employee, circa 1885
- Broadside, Advertisement for Wood, Morrell & Co., circa 1857 - The late 1850s broadside advertised the capability of the Cambria Iron Works to manufacture "400 tons per week of Railroad Bars." The Johnstown, Pennsylvania, complex was constructed in 1848 and quickly became one of the United States' largest producers of rails for the industry. The Cambria Iron Works closed in 1992.
- 1855-1860
- Collections - Artifact
Broadside, Advertisement for Wood, Morrell & Co., circa 1857
The late 1850s broadside advertised the capability of the Cambria Iron Works to manufacture "400 tons per week of Railroad Bars." The Johnstown, Pennsylvania, complex was constructed in 1848 and quickly became one of the United States' largest producers of rails for the industry. The Cambria Iron Works closed in 1992.