Trade cards: Set of fifty three trade cards featuring Jumbo the elephant
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Trade cards: Set of fifty three trade cards featuring Jumbo the elephant
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Set of fifty three trade cards that feature Jumbo the elephant advertising for various products. The products include Hartford's Sewing Machine, Kerr's Spool Cotton, Castoria, Smith Stevenson and Co., J.and p. Coats Best Six Cord Thread, Union Pacific Tea Company, Clark's Spool cotton, F.E. Hartwell and Co. Clothiers and Furnishers, Daniel F. Beatty's Organs and Pianos, Sanborn Bros. Jewelry and Fancy Goods, Vunk and Truman's, Smith's Clinch Back Suspenders, and Willimantic Thread. These cards help to show how Jumbo was launched into popular consciousness thanks to P.T. Barnum's purchase of the elephant in 1882, and the emphasis he placed on Jumbo's size. This helped to associate the name Jumbo with size and strength, giving us the contemporary word jumbo, meaning extremely large. During the 1800s, trade cards acted as both a means of marketing and as a business card, with the cards being distributed to customers and potential customers. The advent of color printing lead to more sophisticated designs, and collecting trade cards became a hobby. This lead to the development of collectible cards like baseball cards. Jumbo the Elephant (1861-September 15, 1885) was an unusually tall African elephant best known for his time as an attraction in the London Zoo and as a part of P.T. Barnum's circus from 1882 to his death in 1885. His sale from the London Zoo to Barnum's circus prompted a great public outcry in England, and Barnum used the publicity to his advantage. Jumbo was killed by a train on September 15, 1885. Barnum had his hide stuffed and bones mounted to exhibit them as a double Jumbo. The hide eventually went to Tufts University and was there until it burnt in the 1970s, and the bones to the American Museum of Natural History where they remain today.
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Creator (cre): Various creators, American
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PTB-jb-sp006
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