19th century advertisements

File name: 10_03_000045a Binder label: Food Title: Use Dunham's Concentrated Cocoanut [front] Created/Published: St. Louis : Compton Litho. Co. Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 14 x 9 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Adults; Coconuts Notes: Title from item. Statement of responsibility: Dunham Manufacturing Co. Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known…

So I have decided to look at the 19th century and its massive boom in advertising, and the typefaces that were created in this century. I came across this interesting part of the history of type whilst researching the Rockwell typeface. I started to look at inspiration and similar typefaces and came across Clarendon a popular typeface created in middle of 19th century. Looking for examples of design that used this typeface to get a personal understanding of its applications. I came across a…

File name: 10_03_001763c Binder label: Stoves Title: The Monroe Range (back) Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 14 x 9 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Women; Stoves Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Wallace Roberts, Hornellsville, N. Y. Statement of responsibility: Co-operative Foundry Co. Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions.

File name: 10_03_000815a Binder label: Soap Title: Use Miners Soap and keep clean [front] Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co. Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 12 x 8 cm. Genre: Advertising cards Subject: Men; Soaps Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Ph. C. Swab Statement of responsibility: Gowans & Stover Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known…

Seed companies and mail-order catalogs proliferated in America and Britain during the second half of the 19th century as transportation and postal networks improved. With new growth in urban areas throughout the US, seed and nursery companies faced increased competition and which lead to the growth of hand illustrated type designs. It wasn't enough for nurseries and seed companies to distinguish themselves from their competitors just by offering novelty plant specimens. They had to create…

Rare example of an early 19th century French typefounder's poster.Until the late 18th century, type foundries offered for the most part small sizes of type for books and newspapers. In the early 19th century their catalogues were extended to include new styles. Large in size, these were not intende…

There was a lot going on in the world during the second half of the 19th century. The U.S. Civil War happens, the telephone is patented, the Brooklyn Bridge is completed, Jack the Ripper runs rampa…

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