Roaring Victorian Trade Card for Washburn-Crosby Co. Merchant Millers Has Lions

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Description: This Roaring Victorian Trade Card for Washburn-Crosby Co. Merchant Millers for Flour has two great lions on the front of the card. The lions are holding up a bag of flour. The statement says " Washburn, Crosby Co's Course Bran, Minneapolis, Minn. Uniformity, Broad and Flaky, Good Quality. Use Our Flour. All Dealers Keep Washburn, Crosby Co's Flour." On the back is states that this is Wheat Bran for cattle. Measures 6-1/2" W x 4-1/2" H. Brief History of Trade Cards by Ben Crane Over a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful. By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly-colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook. Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm. The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely read more

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