James M. Schmidt - Lincoln's Labels, Książki USA
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LINCOLN’S LABELS
America’s Best-Known Brands and the Civil War
Figure 1
. Winslow Homer’s engraving of “Christmas Boxes in Camp.”
Source:
Harper’s Weekly
LINCOLN’S LABELS
America’s Best-Known Brands and the Civil War
James M. Schmidt
EDINBOROUGH PRESS
2009
Copyright © 2009 by James M. Schmidt. All rights reserved including
the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
Edinborough Press
P. O. Box 13790
Roseville, Minnesota 55113-2293
1-888-251-6336
www.edinborough.com
The book is set in Font Bureau Whitman.
Cover image credits:
“Rally Round the Flag” from the Jack Smith Lincoln Graphics Collection,
Indiana Historical Society, P0406
Brooks Brothers uniform label from the collection of Don Troiani, Military
and Historical Image Bank, Southbury, Conn.
du Pont vintage gunpowder labels from Hagley Museum and Library,
Wilmington, Delaware
Facsimile of wartime Borden’s Condensed Milk label, from Sullivan Press,
Morgantown, Pa.
Wartime Tifany & Co. advertisement in
Army and Navy Journal
(1864), from
Collection of Guy Hasegawa, Hagerstown, Maryland
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Schmidt, James M., 1964–
Lincoln’s labels : America’s best known brands and the Civil War / James M. Schmidt.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-889020-21-1 (casebound : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-889020-28-0 (softbound : alk. paper)
1. Brand name products–United States–History–19th century. 2. Business enter-
prises–United States–History–19th century. 3. United States–History–Civil War,
1861-1865–Economic aspects. I. Title.
HD69.B7S349 2008
973.7’1–dc22
2008007691
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