Description:

The front of the trade card features a color drawing of a woman in a purple dress, white apron and white chef's cap standing besides a massive stack of loaves of bread, in front of which is a Sterling Range with eight more loaves in the oven. A coal bucket and a flour barrel are off to the side. In addition to a Sterling Range logo, additional text reads The Sterling Did It, Only One Fire Pot Of Coal, Only One BBL Of Flour, Baked In 10 Hours, Only 231 Loaves, Had No Equal, then beneath the drawing, Copyright 1895 By Sill Stove Works, Rochester, N.Y., See Our Record On Other Side. The back side of the card is text describing the experiment.