Ross's Royal Belfast Ginger Ale, Ireland [front]
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File name: 10_03_000545a.Binder label: Beverages.Title: Ross's Royal Belfast Ginger Ale, Ireland [front].Created/Published: N. Y. : The Hatch Lith. Co. .Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate).Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 13 x 9 cm..Genre: Advertising cards.Subject: People; Queens; Beverages.Notes: Retailer: I. D. Richards & Sons, Boston.Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards.Location: Print Department.Rights: No known restrictions.
Trade cards were an early form of collectible advertising. Popularized after the Civil War by businesses, they offer a colorful look at society in the 1880s-1890s when the advent of lithography made it possible to mass-produce card in color, leading to a golden age from 1876 to the 1900s. Trade cards had a picture on one side and a text ad on the other. In this collection there are beverage advertising cards, 1875-1890, from collections of Boston Public Library.
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