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- "History of the Sewing Machine" and "What Advantages Has the Elias Howe Machine Over Others?," May 1867 -
- May 01, 1867
- Collections - Artifact
"History of the Sewing Machine" and "What Advantages Has the Elias Howe Machine Over Others?," May 1867
- Trade Card for New Home Sewing Machine, Johnson, Clark & Co., circa 1870-1900 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1870-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for New Home Sewing Machine, Johnson, Clark & Co., circa 1870-1900
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.