Digital Collection
2015.005.030

Card, Trade

Trade card from Sherman S. Jewett and Company advertising the Jewett's Fancy Base Burner model stove. A lithograph on the recto, credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company, depicts a man carrying an American flag, two men in arctic gear, and four sled dogs standing next to a Jewett's Fancy Base Burner model stove that it being carried on a sled. Written on the verso is "THE FRIGID ZONE Pays Its Tribute To The NEW Jewett's Fancy Base Burner; Explorers Perspire, And Eskimo Dogs Loll And Pant Amid Polar Icebergs When This NEW AND BEAUTIFUL HEATER Invades The Domain Of The Frost King," alongside advertisements focusing on the stove's elegant design and floor ventilation capabilities. A stamp reading "C.J.L Macleod, 382 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." is at the bottom of the verso.

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