BEST EGGS IN BROOKLYN: EARLY TRADE CARDS
BEST EGGS IN BROOKLYN is an 8x6 limited edition, signed print created with a found trade card from the early 20th century. With the advent of color lithography, the small pasteboard cards advertised new goods and services to a rapidly expanding generation of immigrants. Typically the size of a calling card, the cards were common from the 1870s through the early 1900s. They were the antecedents of the ubiquitous bubblegum cards still found today. .
The card used in my work advertises the best place in Brooklyn to buy butter and eggs. It was at Campbells on Atlantic Avenue. Butter then was about 30 cents a pound and eggs .27 a dozen thanks to President William Howard Taft. Scramble that info, Donald.
I wonder if the green eggs went with ham from W.V. Staib & Co which was down the street at 639 Atlantic Avenue.
The card used in my work advertises the best place in Brooklyn to buy butter and eggs. It was at Campbells on Atlantic Avenue. Butter then was about 30 cents a pound and eggs .27 a dozen thanks to President William Howard Taft. Scramble that info, Donald.
I wonder if the green eggs went with ham from W.V. Staib & Co which was down the street at 639 Atlantic Avenue.