Trade Cards Scrapbook
Object Details
- Description
- Trade cards were a popular advertising device in the mid-to-late 19th century, featuring a colorful illustration on one side with advertising copy on the other. The cards were widely distributed for an array of consumer products including proprietary (patent) medicines. People enjoyed collecting and scrap-booking the colorful cards which often feautured flowers, animals, children, women, or humerous scenes.
- This trade card scrapbook belonged to Franklin T. Buzby (1852 - 1910), a pharmacist in South Bend, Indianna. Among the cards collected here are advertisements for Vroom & Fowlers Shaving Soap, Atmore's Mince Meat, Reynold's Bros. Fine Shoes, and Hoyt's German Cologne.
- Location
- Currently not on view (Box in 5026 UNIT04/02)
- Currently not on view (paper fragments; sewing thread)
- Credit Line
- Mrs. Grace Osterhus
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1870s-1900
- ID Number
- MG.258917.02
- catalog number
- M-11162
- 258917.02
- accession number
- 258917
- maker
- Buzby, Franklin T.
- Object Name
- scrapbook, tradecards
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 9 in; 4.1275 cm x 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Indiana, South Bend
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Advertising
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1189364
