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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A variety of other articles too tedious to mention.” Shopkeepers Ebenezer Thompson and James Arnold placed a lengthy advertisement for a “GOOD assortment of English...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Many other articles not enumerated.” Consumer choice was a key element of Nicholas Tillinghast and William Holroyd’s advertisement in the November 24, 1770, edition...
Choices and Projects For 2020–2021 we’re running an online seminar series based around two themes. Our Choices speakers have been invited to look back on their careers and discuss the choices they have made along the way. The kind of choices...
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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “TEA … West-India and New-England RUM … handsome colour’d WILTONS.” Thomas Martin advertised an assortment of goods available at his store in Portsmouth...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Any person inclinable to purchase the Whole, may have them on very reasonable Terms.” John Tunno sold a variety of goods at his “Linen and Manchester Ware-House”...
Scrovegni Chapel, PaduaFrescos and ultramarine ceiling, Giotto 1306.In his fifteenth century handbook for painters, Cennino Cennini said, "Ultramarine blue is a color illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colors; one could not...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Will be sold … at their store in Sunbury.” In December 1769, the partnership of Kelsall and Spalding placed an advertisement in the Georgia Gazette to inform...
Scrovegni Chapel, PaduaFrescos and ultramarine ceiling, Giotto 1306.In his fifteenth century handbook for painters, Cennino Cennini said, "Ultramarine blue is a color illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colors; one could not...
Scrovegni Chapel, PaduaFrescos and ultramarine ceiling, Giotto 1306.In his fifteenth century handbook for painters, Cennino Cennini said, "Ultramarine blue is a color illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colors; one could not...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (June 3, 1769). “He will engage to sell as cheap … as any Person in Providence.” When he advertised “ European and East-India GOODS”...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Essex Gazette (May 30, 1769). “A good Assortment of Hard Ware and English Piece Goods.” Several purveyors of goods imported from England advertised in the May 30, 1769,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (February 4, 1769). “They CAN, DO, and WILL, sell as cheap for Cash as any Merchant or Shop-keeper in New-England.” In their advertisement in the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Pennsylvania Journal (February 2, 1769). “The following large assortment of GOODS.” Merchants and shopkeepers frequently made appeals to consumer choice when promoting...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? New-London Gazette (January 27, 1769). “At the Shop in Beach-Street, (lately improved by Winthrop and Roswell Saltonstall.)” Like many other merchants and shopkeepers...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Virginia Gazette [Purdie and Dixon] (November 3, 1768).“All the above are fashionable, new, and good.” Like her male counterparts, shopkeeper Catherine Rathell ran...
Scrovegni Chapel, PaduaFrescos and ultramarine ceiling, Giotto 1306.In his fifteenth century handbook for painters, Cennino Cennini said, "Ultramarine blue is a color illustrious, beautiful and most perfect, beyond all other colors; one could not...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (October 11, 1768).“Many other useful articles, too tedious to mention.” John Edwards and Company advertised...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Pennsylvania Gazette (September 29, 1768)“A large and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE.” Shopkeepers and merchants frequently made appeals to consumer choice as...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? New-York Journal (September 22, 1768).“Too many other articles too tedious to mention.” In an extensive advertisement that comprised almost an entire column in the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Boston-Gazette (July 25, 1768).“A large Assortment of … GOODS.” Frederick William Geyer advertised regularly in several of Boston’s newspapers in the...
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