Trade Cards
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.
Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Rules of Lawn Tennis
Boston: Wright & Ditson, 1934. Published annually since 1882, this is a promotional advertising item for tennis products.
![Item #17855 Our Baby Book [Advertising Ephemera, Infant Care Record, Illustrated Keepsake]....](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17855.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706469989)
Our Baby Book [Advertising Ephemera, Infant Care Record, Illustrated Keepsake]
This piece functions both as a sentimental baby book and a promotional object, inviting parents to document milestones while keeping the advertiser present in the household. Illustrated cherubs, poems, and record sections reflect contemporary beliefs around infancy, care, and domestic order, making the booklet as culturally revealing as it is.....
Dutton & Rhodes Fine Clothing Mechanical Trade Card c1880
The trade card is advertising Dutton & Rhodes Fine Clothing in black and white.
A. Raymond & Co., Boys Suits Clothing Mechanical Trade Card c1880
This Metamorphic trade card is advertising A. Raymond & Co., Boys Suits Clothing with a folding b/w graphic.Background Information: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.....
![Item #17774 Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton Mechanical Trade Card c1880 [German Text]. Donaldson...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17774.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704386200)
Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton Mechanical Trade Card c1880 [German Text]
This Metamorphic trade card is advertising Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton. The full color graphic are bright.Background Information: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.....
Golf Tips from Sam Snead and Mickey Wright Plus Tips from Ford on Getting Top Performance from Your Car [Automotive Advertising - Golf]
New York: Sports Illustrated, 1961. Original Drawing by Anthony Ravielli. Stapled Wraps. An advertising piece from Ford Motor Company with golf tips. The center fold highlights Ford's Thunderbird and Starliner and the Ford V-8 on the rear cover.
British Royalty H.R.N. The Prince of Wales Yardley's Trade Card
London: Yardley of London, 1920. No Binding. British Royalty H.R.N. The Prince of Wales; Yardley's Lavender Old English Soap. Trade Card with real photograph. Advertisement on rear, photo of the H.R.N. The Prince of Wales on the front. No. 4 of the "Yardley" Prince of Wales Portraits. Background: Edward VIII.....