Testing" Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton" – Antique Wall Art
![Testing" Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton", [between 1875 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3c/3c7a9ab08f86-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Testing" Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton", preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Testing" Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton"
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A cowboy hauling against a roped steer is the focus of this color lithograph, which presents a spool of thread as strong enough to hold a working animal. Titled "Testing," the card promotes Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton, a product of the Clark thread firm, one of the large American makers of sewing thread in the late nineteenth century. Trade cards like this were handed out to shoppers and often kept as colorful keepsakes, and the ranch scene reflects the public fascination with the cattle range and the cowboy. The record dates the card to between 1875 and 1900.
| Created / published | [between 1875 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : ltihograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertising cards 1870-1900.Lithographs Color 1870-1900. |
| Subjects | Thread industry--United States--1870-1900. Cowboys--1870-1900. Roping--1870-1900. Cattle--1870-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,442 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216832 |
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