Donaldson Printers (3 results)

Condition: Good. Small chip on the upper right edge; Loss of text/material on upper edge where it was once attached in an album [?] . Typical even age-toning; Modest handling. Approximately5.5 inches tall when opened. 3.5 inches wide. ThisMetamorphic trade card is advertising Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton. The full color graphic are bright. Background Information: In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.…

Condition: Good. Small chip on the upper right edge; Loss of text/material on upper edge where it was once attached in an album [?] . Typical even age-toning; Modest handling. Approximately5.5 inches tall when opened. 3.5 inches wide. The trade card is advertising Dutton & Rhodes Fine Clothing in black and white.…

Condition: Very Good. Loss of text/material on upper edge where it was once attached in an album [?] . Typical even age-toning; Modest handling. Approximately5.5 inches tall when opened. 3.5 inches wide. ThisMetamorphic trade card is advertising A. Raymond & Co., Boys Suits Clothing with a folding b/w graphic. Background Information: In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.…