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- Trade Card for Tanglefoot Sticky Fly Paper, O. & W. Thum Co., circa 1900 - In this trade card advertising Tanglefoot flypaper as "a boon to invalids," a frail patient is saved from further disease and annoyance by the strip of flypaper on her bed, bristling with dead flies. During the turn-of-the-century heyday of America's interest in newly discovered germ theory, Tanglefoot advertised that their nontoxic flypaper (as opposed to common arsenic flypaper) caught "the germ with the fly."
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Tanglefoot Sticky Fly Paper, O. & W. Thum Co., circa 1900
In this trade card advertising Tanglefoot flypaper as "a boon to invalids," a frail patient is saved from further disease and annoyance by the strip of flypaper on her bed, bristling with dead flies. During the turn-of-the-century heyday of America's interest in newly discovered germ theory, Tanglefoot advertised that their nontoxic flypaper (as opposed to common arsenic flypaper) caught "the germ with the fly."
- Reclining Chair, 1857-1875 -
- 1857-1875
- Collections - Artifact
Reclining Chair, 1857-1875
- Reclining Chair, 1876-1900 - Victorian Americans enjoyed reclining in adjustable chairs like this one, popular during the late 19th century. These innovative mass-produced chairs featured functionality over style. This type of furniture appealed most to a growing middle class and would have served as a novelty piece in a parlor or sitting room.
- 1876-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Reclining Chair, 1876-1900
Victorian Americans enjoyed reclining in adjustable chairs like this one, popular during the late 19th century. These innovative mass-produced chairs featured functionality over style. This type of furniture appealed most to a growing middle class and would have served as a novelty piece in a parlor or sitting room.