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- Trade Card for the Hartford Sewing Machine, Weed Sewing Machine Co., 1882-1890 - Jumbo, an 11-foot, 6-ton African elephant, traveled with the Barnum and Bailey's circus after P.T. Barnum had purchased the giant pachyderm in 1882. Jumbo became a national sensation. American manufacturers capitalized on Jumbo's popularity by using the elephant's image in their advertising. This trade card from Weed Sewing Machine Company compared the company's Hartford sewing machine to the famous big elephant.
- 1882-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Hartford Sewing Machine, Weed Sewing Machine Co., 1882-1890
Jumbo, an 11-foot, 6-ton African elephant, traveled with the Barnum and Bailey's circus after P.T. Barnum had purchased the giant pachyderm in 1882. Jumbo became a national sensation. American manufacturers capitalized on Jumbo's popularity by using the elephant's image in their advertising. This trade card from Weed Sewing Machine Company compared the company's Hartford sewing machine to the famous big elephant.
- Trade Card for the Hartford Sewing Machine, Weed Sewing Machine Co., 1880-1891 - 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.
- 1880-1891
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Hartford Sewing Machine, Weed Sewing Machine Co., 1880-1891
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.