Trade cards
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Four scanned sheets of Victorian chromolithographed trade cards advertising Kerr & Co.'s spool cotton thread. Many cards are from an Aesop's Fables series (The Wolf and the Crane, The Fox and the Goat, The Frogs Asking for a King, The Fox and the Stork, The Ox and the Frog, The Two Pots) with spools of Extra Six Cord cotton worked into the scenes. Others carry slogans such as "Kerr Cotton Takes the Cake" and a Jumbo the elephant pun, and promote soft-finish six-cord machine thread and black fast dye cotton. Only the fronts of the cards are shown.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
- Archive notes
- Updated May 23, 2003
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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