Nineteenth-Century Product
Labels
Tobacco package label
The Young Swell, ca.
1869 (204.5d)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05590 ]
Patent Medicine Label
Dewdrop
Bitters (204.5a)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05586 ]
Soap label
Pure White Rock Potash (204.5e)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05589 ]
Patent medicine label
Get Fat on Lorings Fat-ten-U
and Corpula Foods (204.5f)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca- 05583 ]
Patent medicine label
Thomspon's Vegetable Cattle
Powder, for diseases of
Horses, Cattle, Hogs & Sheep (204.5c)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05587 ]
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Early product labels served primarily to identify products and
brand names. As later nineteenth-century color lithography developed,
illustration and color were combined with text to produce eye-catching
designs meant to attract consumers in an even more competitive
market place. Advertising schemes ranged broadly and depictions
of American Indians, animals, children, flowers, medicinal plants,
mythological characters, celebrities, people taking or administering
medications, sick and cured people, symbols, and women appeared
on products as wide ranging as hair tonic, tobacco, and horse lineament.
Paint label
White Lead- Ground in Pure
Linseed Oil (204.5h)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05584 ]
Patent medicine label
Messer's Inhaling Tube (204.5g)
Digital ID# ppmsca-05591
Coffee label
United States of America, Our
Standard Coffee (204.5i)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05588 ]
Color lithographs
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposits
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