Trade cards
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A collection of about 24 pages of Victorian chromolithographed trade cards advertising J. & P. Coats spool cotton, Best Six Cord thread, for hand and machine sewing. The cards use children, animals, nursery rhymes, Mikado characters, flowers and humorous scenes, with slogans about strength and colorfastness. One card shows the Coats exhibit of 80,264 spools built as the Old Stone Mill at Newport for the 1885 Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Date
- c. 1880-1890
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 24
- Archive notes
- Last updated December 20, 2003
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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