Thomas Jefferson matchbook cover, Diamond Match Co. – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Thomas Jefferson matchbook cover, Diamond Match Co.. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Thomas Jefferson matchbook cover, Diamond Match Co.
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Thomas Jefferson appears here not in a painting or engraving but on a matchbook cover, a small, mass-produced piece of advertising ephemera issued under the Diamond Match Company name. Diamond Match was one of the largest American match makers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its covers often featured famous figures, landmarks and patriotic subjects to make a pocket-sized item worth keeping. Jefferson, the third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, was a natural choice for this kind of commemorative design. The contrast is worth noticing: a statesman known for his carefully crafted writing and architecture reduced to a striker-strip souvenir that people carried every day.
| Original scan | 638 × 1,482 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 334477447_484e9aebb2_o Thomas Jefferson marxchivist |
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