Royal Baking Powder Company trade card

trade card

ADVERTISING
USA, NY, New York
after 1880
paper
4-1/8 x 6-1/2 in.

Trade card for Royal Baking Powder Company; color lithograph on one side of Brooklyn Bridge and office and manufacturing buildings for Royal Baking Powder Co.; printed at bottom "The Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn, New York Elevated Rail Road etc."; printed on back are facts about the bridge and about baking powder including "Interesting Tests Made by the Government Chemist,/ (From New York Tribune, December 17, 1880.)" and note at bottom attributed to Dr. Edward G. Love, "I regard all Alum Powders as very unwholesome. Phosphate and Tartaric Acid Powders liberate their gas too freely in process of baking, or under varying climatic changes suffer great deterioration." F. Calabretta notes: Rivers served as highways for ships and boats, but they were also barriers that had to be crossed. This card features the Brooklyn Bridge, which was considered a marvel of its time when it was opened in 1883.


2001.59

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