The NameTells [Round Oak Stoves Trade Card - Girl Reclining On Red Drape]
Description:
The front of the card has a color drawing of a young girl (the girl on this card was P.D. Beckwith's only granddaughter, Mary Lee) in a white dress reclining on a red drape with a doll beside her. In the upper left corner is "The Name Tells." The back of the card has a promotion for "The Round Oak, Makes 'Em Hustle, 5 Sizes for Coal or Wood. . . . Beware of Imitations. The Genuine Bears the Name of P.D. Beckwith, Dowagiac, Mich." At the bottom, after "Sold by" is stamped "Wm. Deck, Raymond, Ill."
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Round Oak Stoves
Publisher: P.D. Beckwith (Dowagiac, Mich.)
1892 (ca.)
12.8 x 8.6 cm
Trade Cards
Language: English
Key Terms:
- Coal Stoves
- Drawn Illustrations Color
- Michigan
- Stoves
- Wood Stoves
- Furnaces
- Trade Cards
- P.D. Beckwith
- Round Oak Stoves
Copyright: This item is in the public domain.
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Citation: The NameTells [Round Oak Stoves Trade Card - Girl Reclining On Red Drape]. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=6275
