Thompson's Vegetable Cattle Powder advertising label with livestock – Antique Wall Art
(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 Thompson's Vegetable Cattle Powder advertising label with livestock in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Thompson's Vegetable Cattle Powder advertising label with livestock
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Thompson's Vegetable Cattle Powder was one of many patent-medicine-style feed additives promoted to farmers in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when stockmen often bought tonics and powders in the hope of keeping animals fat and healthy through hard seasons. This label stands out for its direct focus on the livestock themselves, showing the animals as the product's reason for being. Advertising of this kind was typically printed in bright color and sold as much on confident promises as on any proven benefit, so the label offers a window into how farm products were marketed to rural buyers of that era.
| Original scan | 4,778 × 3,376 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05587u |
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