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- Oxo-Gas Plants Co. Sales Brochure, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
- Collections - Artifact
Oxo-Gas Plants Co. Sales Brochure, circa 1910
- American Electrical Heating Company Advertising Broadside, "American Beauty Twin Radiant Electric Heater," circa 1925 -
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
American Electrical Heating Company Advertising Broadside, "American Beauty Twin Radiant Electric Heater," circa 1925
- Detroit Electric Heater, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Electric Heater, circa 1910
- Trade Card for Glenwood Ranges & Heaters, Weir Stove Co., 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 Glenwood Ranges & Heaters, Weir Stove Co., 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.
- Vacuum Gauge, circa 1920 -
- circa 1920
- Collections - Artifact
Vacuum Gauge, circa 1920
- Simplex Electric Heater -
- Collections - Artifact
Simplex Electric Heater
- Service Attendant Selling Ford V-8 Heater to Customer, November 1936 - Heaters weren't standard equipment on all cars in the 1930s. Ford Motor Company and its dealers sold aftermarket heaters that used engine heat, routed through a heat exchanger, to warm the passenger compartment. Funnel-type heaters simply relied on the engine fan and the car's forward motion to move warm air. Blower-type heaters used electric blowers to help move the air.
- November 10, 1936
- Collections - Artifact
Service Attendant Selling Ford V-8 Heater to Customer, November 1936
Heaters weren't standard equipment on all cars in the 1930s. Ford Motor Company and its dealers sold aftermarket heaters that used engine heat, routed through a heat exchanger, to warm the passenger compartment. Funnel-type heaters simply relied on the engine fan and the car's forward motion to move warm air. Blower-type heaters used electric blowers to help move the air.
- Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater, 1920-1935 -
- 1920-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater, 1920-1935
- Flatiron Heater -
- Collections - Artifact
Flatiron Heater
- Catalog for the Simplex Electric Company, "Electric Heating," 1904 -
- 1904
- Collections - Artifact
Catalog for the Simplex Electric Company, "Electric Heating," 1904