Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Box 1: Album B: Household Wringers, Washers, Freezers, Ironware
GUSN-195078
This trade card promotes the improved Fort Wayne Western Washer, made by the Horton Manufacturing Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The name, Calvert Lith. Co., a printing company in Detroit, Michigan, appears in the lower left corner. A woman in an apron demonstrates the washing machine for another woman while a child plays on the floor of a kitchen. The patent date is given as March 9, 1886.
kitchens
stoves (heating equipment)
washing machines
laundry baskets
cookware
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements
DigitalID 000250
AccessID 394
Other identifier HNEDID-000250
1 trade card
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.01.006.04.001
1886-1890s
Detroit (Wayne county, Michigan)
Fort Wayne (Allen county, Indiana)
Horton Mfg. Co. (manufacturer)
trade cards (advertising)
chromolithographs
advertisements
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Fort Wayne Western washing machines
Item
Ephemera: Trade Cards and Advertisements: Box 1: Album B: Household Wringers, Washers, Freezers, Ironware
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