The Trade Cards Zone
Is where you will learn about
the "craze" of the 19th Century!
Not too long ago,
the mid to late 1800s,
when electricity was
still soooo new......
most went without
sufficient lighting,
and no television,
not even a transitor-radio
existed...
Trade cards were the TV Commercials
of a little more than a century ago!
Those who used the cards to advertise, could only hope
that their cards sat in the home long enough, so that Mom & Dad
knew what to buy and from where!!
You see...
Children had the habit to paste those trade cards into their books... FIRST!
Families spent time with
one another for entertainment
and for love.
Picture a family,
sitting in the parlour
or at the kitchen table.
Each with a particular job
- one will find the pretty picture
- one may be creating;
or at the least,
trimming that picture
- Dad may be the one who will
slather it with paste,
then hand it off to
- Mom to place in just that right place
on the page of the Scrapbook.
Let's travel a journey to look at those wonderful items. Let's learn why they were saved as 'Family Heirlooms'.
You will discover that these Pieces of the Past, show life, not unlike it is today.
