Trade Cards - part 2

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

Victorian trade cards became an early form of collectible advertising, particularly in the United States. Popularised after the Civil war by businesses, they offer a colourful and diverse look at popular culture and society in the late 1800s.

The advent of lithography in the 1870s made it possible to mass-produce them in colour, leading to a golden age from 1876 to the early 1900s, when halftone printed newspaper and magazine advertisements became more economical.

Trade cards typically had a picture on one side and an advertisement on the other.

This is part 2 of a 6-part series on Trade Cards. For other examples see part 1 also.

Chase & Sanborn's Famous Seal Brand Tea ( die-cut )

Chase & Sanborn's Famous Seal Brand Tea ( die-cut )

Chase & Sanborn's Famous Seal Brand Tea ( die-cut )

Chicorée, Arlatte & Cie, Cambrai, France

Chocolat Poulain, France

Maison Louit Frères & Co., France

Maison Louit Frères & Co., France

Cie. Beaujolaise

Cinderella Stoves and Ranges

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton ( die-cut )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton - front ( die-cut and folded )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton - back ( die-cut and folded )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton - opened ( die-cut and folded )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton - front ( die-cut with moving parts )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton - back ( die-cut with moving parts )

Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton

Cobb, Bates & Yerxa, Boston ( Grocers )

Generic Trade Card ( Coffee Mill )

Colburn's Philadelphia Mustard ( die-cut )

Colgate & Co's "New" Soap

Chase, Isherwood Co., Toledo, Ohio ( Consolation Smoking Tobacco )

Cooper and Conard ( Dry Goods )

Cosmo Buttermilk Soap Co., Chicago, IL - front ( die-cut with moving parts )

Cosmo Buttermilk Soap Co., Chicago, IL back ( die-cut with moving parts )

Cosmo Buttermilk Soap Co., Chicago, IL inside ( die-cut with moving parts )

Cotton & Thomas, Nashua, NH ( Grocers )

Crosby Flour ( with opening doors )

David Kimball & Co., Portsmouth, NH

David S. Brown & Co.'s Fine Toilet Soap ( die-cut )

Davis' OK Baking Powder

Decker Brothers Piano Manufacturers, New York

Domestic Sewing Machine Co., New York

Dr. J. Lamoreux ( Druggist )

Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermituge

Dr. T. S. McNeil's Pain Exterminator

Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil

Ed. F. Brown, Ipswich, MA ( Druggist )

Ed. F. Brown, Ipswich, MA ( Druggist )

Ed. F. Brown, Ipswich, MA ( Druggist )