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Brochure cover for White Mountain Refrigerators

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Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Box 1: Album B: Household Wringers, Washers, Freezers, Ironware

GUSN

GUSN-195077

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Description

A trade card for White Mountain Refrigerators, made by the Maine Manufacturing Co., and sold by Austin S. Cook & Co. at 67-69 Main Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The name, Ketterlinus, a printing company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, appears in the lower left corner. The card is comprised of six panels, four of which present women displaying various features of the refrigerators and demonstrating the main attractions of the company's products: "economy, cleanliness, convenience, construction." The panel at the far right shows a woman in front of the refrigerator, holding a platter of food.

Details

Descriptive Terms

kitchens
workers
refrigerators
cookware
maids (servants)
appliances
labor
brochures
advertisements

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000249
AccessID 393
Other identifier HNEDID-000249

Physical Description

1 brochure front cover

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.006.01.02.001

Date Notes

1880s-1900s

Places

Woonsocket (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Nashua (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania)

Record Details

Originator

Maine Manufacturing Co. (manufacturer)

Material Type

brochures
advertisements

Other Organizations

Austin S. Cook & Co.
Ketterlinus Printing House

Subjects

White Mountain refrigerators

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Box 1: Album B: Household Wringers, Washers, Freezers, Ironware

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