John Hecker's machine-made bread – Antique Print
(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.)
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John Hecker's machine-made bread comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John Hecker's machine-made bread
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Ads like this one from around 1858 promised that bread could be made by machine, a selling point at a time when most loaves were still mixed and kneaded by hand in small shops. Color lithographs were a popular and fairly new way to advertise, and this one, catalogued as No. 605, presents the bakery's product as clean, modern, and up to date. Pictures like it show how bakers and advertisers in the 1850s tried to win customers by stressing new methods and reliable, uniform bread.
| Created / published | c1858. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1850-1860.Lithographs Color 1850-1860. |
| Notes | No. 605. |
| Subjects | Bread--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,472 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217828 |
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