Business Advertisement Card: "Buy Uncle Sam's Sodas"
1972.21.0062
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Basic Information
Artifact Identification | Business Advertisement Card: "Buy Uncle Sam's Sodas" (1972.21.0062) |
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Classification/ Nomenclature |
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Artist/Maker | None |
Geographic Location | |
Period/Date | 19th century CE |
Culture | Euro - American |
Physical Analysis
Dimension 1 (Height) | 14.1 cm |
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Dimension 2 (Width) | 9.4 cm |
Dimension 3 (Depth) | 0.1 cm |
Weight | 3 g |
Measuring Remarks | None |
Materials | Paper, Pigment--Ink |
Manufacturing Processes | Printed |
Munsell Color Information | waived |
Research Remarks
Published Description | N/A |
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Description | Children were terrific advertising tools in American trade cards, with producers often using |
Comparanda | N/A |
Bibliography | “A Short History of Trade Cards,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society 5, no. 3 (April 1931). Berg, Maxine and Clifford, Helen, Selling Consumption in the Eighteenth Century: Advertising and the Trade Card in Britain and France, The Journal of the Social History Society, (April 28, 2015). Chase, Ernest D., The Romance of Greeting Cards, Rust Craft Publishers, 1956. Jay, Robert, The Trade Card In Nineteenth-Century America, University of Missouri Press, 1987. Lewis, John, Printed Ephemera: The Changing Uses of Type and Letterforms in English and American Printing, W.S. Cowell Ltd., 1962. Mehaffy, Marilyn Maness, Advertising Race/Raceing Advertising: The Feminine Consumer(Nation), 1876-1900, Signs, 23, no. 1, The University of Chicago Press, 1997, 142- 143, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3175155. Oatman-Stanford, Hunter, “Extreme Shipping: When Express Delivery to California Meant 100 Grueling Days at Sea,” Collectors Weekly, (June 2, 2016), https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/when-express-delivery-meant-100-days-at-sea/. Peterdi, Gabor, “Lithography” section of “Printmaking” article, Encyclopedia Britannica online, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/art/printmaking/Lithography. |
Artifact History
Archaeological Data | N/A |
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Credit Line/Dedication | Gift of Natalia M. Belting |
Reproduction | no |
Reproduction Information | N/A |