Title

Union Binding Thread

Description

Front: Merrick Thread Co. Best six cord, 8, the thread that binds the union. Donaldson Brothers, N.Y. 1886. Back: Buy merrick Thread Co.s, best six cord soft finish spool cotton on for machine and hand sewing, warranted 200 Yds. also Merrick Thread Co.s ready wound bobbins for sewing machines warranted 200 yards. Trademark, for sale by,

Contributor

Donaldson Brothers

Spatial Coverage

New York

Abstract

This tradecard is an advertisement for Merrick Thread Co. who sells thread for hand sewing and machine sewing by depicting a couple surrounded by three cherubs holding a heart-shaped thread around hinting to their love and the physical thread that binds.

Type

Tradecard

Text, Image

Subject

Advertisement; Thread; Cherub; Sewing; Couple; Love

Language

English

Rights

No copyright--United States.
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Source

Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives. Oxford, Ohio.

Date

1886

Identifier

STC-2149