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Trade card for Novelty Plaster Works, Lowell, Mass., depicting boys sledding

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

Ephemera: Box "Found in Jewett House": Patent Medicines

GUSN

GUSN-194835

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Description

This trade card for the Novelty Plaster Works in Lowell, Massachusetts, a manufacturer of patent medicines, depicts a boy dressed in hat, gloves, fur-cuffed jacket, short pants, and striped socks, sledding down a hill.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hats
jackets (garments)
snow (precipitation)
winter
gloves
sleds
boys
printed ephemera
headgear
recreation
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
printed ephemera

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000105
AccessID 140
Other identifier HNEDID-000105

Physical Description

1 trade card

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.076.01.01.002

Date Notes

1880s-1910s

Places

Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Novelty Plaster Works (manufacturer)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
printed ephemera

Other People

Mitchell, George E.

Subjects

outdoor recreation
patent medicines
sledding
sports & leisure

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Box "Found in Jewett House": Patent Medicines

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