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Marketing in the Modern Era:
Trade Catalogs and the Rise of 19th-Century American Advertising
More Images on Growth of Major Industries

 

champion

Detail of a Champion mower from the Whitely, Fassler & Kelley catalog, ca. 1879.


 

Windlass

Detail of steam engine and patent windlass from John Fowler (Firm). Description of Fowler's patent steam ploughing and cultivating machinery (Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers, 1861).


 

Whitely

Whitely, Fassler and Kelley. Champion reaping & mowing machines (Springfield, OH: Whitely, Fassler, and Kelly, ca. 1879). Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati, printer.


 

Bridesburg

Title page of the 1867 catalog of cotton and wool machinery available from the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company in Bridesburg, PA.


 

Kilburn

Detail of the High Speed Loom from the catalog of Kilburn, Lincoln & Co., Fall River, MA, ca. 1895.


 

Thomson

Thomson Electric Welding Co. Electric welding of metals (Boston and Lynn: Thomson Electric Welding Co., ca. 1887).


 

Wood

Wm. T. Wood & Co. Descriptive illustrated catalogue…of finest quality ice tools of every description (Arlington, MA: Wm. T. Wood & Co., ca. 1895).

 

 

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