Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Priest, Page & Co., Boston -

Newton photographs collection : advertising trade cards - Advertising trade cards - Newton trade cards - Priest, Page & Co., Boston -

Advertising cards - Massachusetts, Newton - Pictorial works -

Newton Free Library trade card collection - Note Title from container. Handwritten title on CD-ROM: Trade cards database. Bound in mylar sleeves in three boxes. A collection of trade cards. - In the late 1800's advanced industrial technology meant major reduction in the cost of printing and producing advertising. Trade cards were given away by shopkeepers with the purchase of a product. Consumers collected trade cards, accumulating them in scrapbooks or boxes. This collection of Newton, Mass. company cards was donated to the Newton Free Library - Text on front: Copyrighted by John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, Text on verso: Grand Fair, Claflin Guards, Newton, April 6 to 10, 1880. Weighed on the Improved Home Scale, Priest, Page & Co., Boston, Weight, 85 lbs - Illustration of three birds on bare limbs in foreground in front of a painting of two sailing ships and a small boat on the sea. -

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