Sunday Adverts: Model Clothing Company Trade Card

Circa 1890’s, a Victorian era trading card for the Model Clothing Company–one of the big dry goods stores of that time. Before magazines and their unrelenting hundreds of ads were ubiquitous.

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1. Kevin J. Brewer says:

   September 24, 2012 at 11:56 am

   I have noticed the following in many historical advertisements, which would appear quite odd today. In the past, if a business’ space covered more than one address as designated by the city, they listed all of those addresses in their advertisement as in “18, 20 & 22 South Pennsylvania St.”.

   Today, we would list only one address and probably the “roundess” one as in “20 S. Pennsylvania St.”.

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