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- Trade Card for the Northampton Roller Skating Rink, 1881 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, promoters used a popular medium--trade cards--to announce shows, activities, and community events. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements, which survive as historical records of leisure in the United States.
- 1881
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Trade Card for the Northampton Roller Skating Rink, 1881
In the last third of the nineteenth century, promoters used a popular medium--trade cards--to announce shows, activities, and community events. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements, which survive as historical records of leisure in the United States.
- Trade Card for Stoves and Ranges, Peninsular Stove Company, circa 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.
- circa 1883
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Trade Card for Stoves and Ranges, Peninsular Stove Company, circa 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.
- "Spalding's Price List of Roller Skates and Rink Furnishings," circa 1885 - Albert Goodwill Spalding and his younger brother James formed A. G. Spalding & Brothers, a sporting goods company, in 1876. The company would become a leader in the industry in the late 1800s, producing equipment for baseball, basketball, football, golf, and all sorts of sporting activities. This catalog for roller skating goods included rules for playing polo (hockey) on skates.
- circa 1885
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"Spalding's Price List of Roller Skates and Rink Furnishings," circa 1885
Albert Goodwill Spalding and his younger brother James formed A. G. Spalding & Brothers, a sporting goods company, in 1876. The company would become a leader in the industry in the late 1800s, producing equipment for baseball, basketball, football, golf, and all sorts of sporting activities. This catalog for roller skating goods included rules for playing polo (hockey) on skates.
- "Harper's Weekly" Bound Volume of Issues for the Year 1883 - <em>Harper's Weekly</em> began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. <em> Harper's Weekly</em> ceased publication in 1916.
- 01 January 1883-31 December 1883
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"Harper's Weekly" Bound Volume of Issues for the Year 1883
Harper's Weekly began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. Harper's Weekly ceased publication in 1916.
- "Rink Waltz," 1868 - Ice skating became popular in the United States in the second half of the 19th century. Many indoor rinks opened across the United States, offering skating with live musical accompaniment. This song was written and published in Detroit in 1868, with cover illustrations of the interior and exterior of the Detroit Skating Rink, which opened in 1866.
- 1868
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"Rink Waltz," 1868
Ice skating became popular in the United States in the second half of the 19th century. Many indoor rinks opened across the United States, offering skating with live musical accompaniment. This song was written and published in Detroit in 1868, with cover illustrations of the interior and exterior of the Detroit Skating Rink, which opened in 1866.