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Title: 'Hindoos' trade card, about 1890 [Go to resource]
Description: The idea of the trade card as a brightly coloured collectable picture came from America in the nineteenth century. In Britain trade cards had been usually black and white despite the arrival of multicoloured cards in Europe during the 1880s. These Indian children - in this case 'Hindoos' - are carrying the biscuit tins in a Sedan chair, which has tipped out its cargo of Huntley & Palmers tins. It evokes the idea that the contents are very important to be carried in this way! The fact that the biscuits have reached India shows that distribution was genuinely worldwide. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Huntley & Palmers Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social history
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Sedan chairTemporal: start=1887-01-01; end=1893-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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