Search
- Receipt for Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine and Needles Purchased by Rufus Reed, June 12, 1857 -
- June 12, 1857
- Collections - Artifact
Receipt for Grover & Baker Portable Sewing Machine and Needles Purchased by Rufus Reed, June 12, 1857
- Needle Case and Advertising Card for Nicholas Emmerling, Funeral Director, Hammond, Indiana, circa 1941 -
- circa 1941
- Collections - Artifact
Needle Case and Advertising Card for Nicholas Emmerling, Funeral Director, Hammond, Indiana, circa 1941
- Trade Card for Singer Sewing Machines, 1880-1900 - 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.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Singer Sewing Machines, 1880-1900
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.