Trade Cards Scrapbook
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870s-1900
name: label: maker
content: Buzby, Franklin T.
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (Box in 5026 UNIT04/02)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (paper fragments; sewing thread)
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, South Bend
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Advertising
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Grace Osterhus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.258917.02
label: catalog number
content: M-11162
label: catalog number
content: 258917.02
label: accession number
content: 258917
objectType: label: Object Name
content: scrapbook, tradecards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 9 in; 4.1275 cm x 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm