Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry digitizes catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera on essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—steam engines, railroads, motorized vehicles, agricultural/farm machinery, building and construction, mining, and more.


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