A new and wonderful invention
Subtitle: the 19th century trade card
By: Harvard Business School, Baker Library Historical Collections
Publisher: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Exhibitions; Advertising cards; Baker Library
Description: More than 1,000 images of 19th-century advertising trade cards selected from the Historical Collections at Baker Library (Harvard Business School). As one of the most popular forms of advertising in the 19th-century, and as indicators of consumer habits, social values, and marketing techniques, trade cards are of interest to scholars of business history, American studies, graphic design and printing history, and social and cultural history.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on May 16, 2008).

Curated by Margaret Hale.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.