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Sugar corn, Frank Albert & Co., Baltimore – Historic Print

Sugar corn, Frank Albert & Co., Baltimore, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph
Sugar corn, Frank Albert & Co., Baltimore, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique lithograph from the Baltimore collection.

(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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A window into the past: Sugar corn, Frank Albert & Co., Baltimore, 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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Sugar corn, Frank Albert & Co., Baltimore

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A color lithograph advertising sugar corn, a sweet variety of maize, makes this one a commercial label rather than a view of the city, and it was issued under the name of Frank Albert & Co. of Baltimore. Labels like this were printed in bulk to sell packed vegetables, and Baltimore was an important canning center in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when lithographic printers produced bright, eye-catching designs for tin cans and cartons. The record does not give a date, so the piece is best read as a window onto how food was packaged and marketed for a national grocery trade.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
SubjectsNo. 1804. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Labels--Food; Farm Crops--Vegetables; Geogr. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 660.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,075 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148851

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