It’s Thanksgiving week and we are well into the season of Fall, so we decided to feature some trade literature with a Fall theme.
Category: Trade Literature
At the Smithsonian Libraries, we are surrounded by American trade literature, so It isn’t unusual to see some catalogs for patent medicines with what we would now consider outrageous claims for a product’s miracle qualities.
But the lack of knowledge of why there is such a thing as Button Day shouldn’t prevent us from celebrating all things button, or from highlighting a button-related item from our collections.
Ringer Do-Nut Co.,New uncrowded business field, big steady profits in electrically-baked greaseless cake do-nuts, ca. 1932, Greaseless Cake Do-Nuts (cover). Today the libraries features this trade literature catalog from the more ยป
Now that Halloween is over the true celebration begins … half-price candy!
Summer might be over. There might not be many more warm days left. But how about looking through this D. W. Granbery & Co. catalog, Lawn Tennis Catalogue and Directions for Playing? The images of tennis equipment might make you think of warmer days …