Victorian Goods and Merchandise by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486132020
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Victorian goods and merchandise : 2,300 illustrations / selected and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton.

p. cm. — (Dover pictorial archive series)

9780486132020

1. Decoration and ornament, Victorian. 2. Consumer goods — Miscellanea. 3. Clip art. I. Grafton, Carol Belanger. II. Series

NK1378.V5 1997

745.2-dc21 97-15501

CIP

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

29698908

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NOTE

This volume presents more than 2,300 illustrations culled from 19th-century sources, offering a broad and authentic overview of the goods and merchandise of the Victorian era. The images have been reproduced directly from rare trade catalogs, as well as from such noted periodicals of the times as The Illustrated London News, The Art Journal, The Scientific American, Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News, The Youth’s Companion, Chatterbox, St. Nicholas and The Graphic.

The unprecedented range of goods available to the Victorian-era public was the result of dramatic changes and improvements in manufacturing and transportation brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Better transportation both on land and at sea provided manufacturers with a worldwide market for their products. British companies, for example, could ship their goods to the outermost reaches of the Empire. Settlers in the American West could outfit themselves with a vast array of items ordered from back east. The opening of the world to trade brought a corresponding increase in the demand for products; simultaneous improvements in technology meant that these products could be manufactured quickly and easily, generally making them cheaper and more plentiful. And, with the prosperity that accompanied the Industrial Revolution, more people than ever before were able to afford and enjoy these goods.

The illustrations chosen by Carol Belanger Grafton cover a broad spectrum of products, ranging from the necessary to the luxurious. Herein may be found kitchenware, gardening implements, lanterns and shoes, as well as medicines, walking sticks, jewelry and fans. The technological wonders of the day are represented by cuts of cameras, movie projectors, sewing machines and the like, and the popular pastimes of the day may be discerned from the engravings of roller skates, baseball gloves and bicycles, to mention just a few. The browser will come away from this book with some sense of the tastes and needs of the Victorian consumer, while the designer will find here an invaluable resource for copyright-free spot illustrations with an old-fashioned feeling.

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