WARD'S PURE FOOD GROCERIES

Object/Artifact

Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"WARD'S PURE FOOD GROCERIES"

Entry/Object ID

2000.216.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Brown; Orange "Ward's Pure Food Groceries," issued by Montgomery Ward and Co., July-August 1924. The 48-page catalog has a brown paper cover with the title across the top. Below this at the left is the date, and at the right is, "Favorite Foods / for Picnic Time." Below the latter is a paragraph on the company goods available within for midsummer picnics. At the left of the center is an orange and black drawing of a picnic basket within which are canned goods and a bottle of a grape-flavored beverage. At the center is an advertisement for "Red Alaska Salmon" and "Triangle Club" crackers. At the far right are two children on the top of a grassy knoll. Across the bottom is the name and address of the company. On the back are black and orange advertisements for tea and fancy sweet cakes. At the beginning of the inside is an index along with ordering instructions. There are a wide variety of grocery goods available among which are sugar; canned goods; dairy; baked goods; soap; drinks; coffee; cooking and supplies; spices; fruit; vegetables; condiments; meat; cereals; rice; preserves; poultry feed; hog feed; stoves; chairs; tobacco; and kitchenware. Also included are many black and white illustrations. With brittleness of the cover; creases; folds; surface soiling; and small tears, the object is in fair condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Chairs, Sugar, Baked products, Beverages, Canned foods, Meat, Coffee, Food, Spices, Rice, Condiments, Vegetables, Home economics, Dairy products, Soaps, Fruit juices, Stoves, Tobacco, Kitchen utensils, Fruit

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Catalogs, Montgomery Ward and Co., Groceries, Grocery trade, Cookware, Cereals, Prepared, Feeds, Canning and preserving

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Catalogs