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Trade Card for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 1870-1900

Sayer, Raymond, Clark's O.N.T. (Firm), and Schumacher & Ettlinger1870/1900

The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States

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.

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  • Title: Trade Card for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 1870-1900
  • Creator: Sayer, Raymond, Clark's O.N.T. (Firm), Schumacher & Ettlinger
  • Date Created: 1870/1900
  • Location: United States, New Jersey, Newark, United States, New York, New York
  • Subject Keywords: Trade cards (Advertising), Thread, Advertising, African Americans, Cotton picking, Sewing (Process), Ethnic stereotypes, Race discrimination
  • Type: Documents
  • Contributor: The Henry Ford
  • Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=60443
  • Object Name: Trade card (Advertising)
  • Object ID: 89.0.541.197
  • Image ID: THF214367
  • Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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