Ad: Chocolat-Menier is universally acknowledged... American ad, 1895.
Entry/Object ID
2010.007.0161
Scope and Content
Advertisement: Chocolat-Menier is universally acknowledged... Printed advertisement clipped from unstated American magazine, no date, (1895). 2-3/4" x 4" high.
Addresses at bottom: Menier, American Branch, No. 86 West Broadway, N.Y. City, or 59 Wabash Ave., Chicago. (Full text is in notes.)
Depicted at the top left is the poster artwork of a french girl writing with a chocolate bar on a wall "Drink Chocolat Menier." It is a version of the iconic Firmin Bouiset poster of 1893. (See archives 2010.007.0162 for a modern reproduction of the 1893 edition of this lithograph which has her writing just "Chocolate Menier.")
Chocolat Menier did have U.S. warehouse and distribution operations in Hoboken, earliest date not yet established, but around this time.
Acquisition
Accession
2010.007
Source or Donor
Lukacs, Claire
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1895 - 1895
Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1895
Date(s): 1895
General Notes
Note
Notes: Text found in ad 2010.007.0161
Chocolat-Menier is universally acknowledged to be of the purest quality, and contains the highest health qualities.
This is shown by the popularity of the SANTE (Health) Vanilla Quality " Yellow Wrapper, " the annual consumption of this brand alone of Chocolate-Menier having reached the enormous amount of Twenty-eight Million Pounds.
Ask your grocer for Chocolat Menier. Annual Sales Exceed 33 Million Pounds.
If he hasn't it on sale, send his name and address to Menier, American Branch, No. 86 West Broadway, N.Y. City, or 59 Wabash Ave., Chicago.
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Date of publication is as stated by communication with donor.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2010-09-12
