Sure Catch Sticky Fly Paper advertising card – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Sure Catch Sticky Fly Paper advertising card in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Sure Catch Sticky Fly Paper advertising card
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Sure Catch Sticky Fly Paper was a household insecticide sold in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this card shows how its makers used baseball, then a rapidly growing national pastime, to catch the eye of shoppers. Trade cards like this one were handed out at general stores and pharmacies, often with a bright chromolithographed scene on one side and a product pitch on the other. Collectors today value them as small, inexpensive records of both advertising art and the everyday goods of the period, and the sporting theme reflects how closely commercial design followed popular enthusiasm for the game.
| Original scan | 6,377 × 4,148 px · prints to 21 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif18586_SureCatchstickyflypaper |
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