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Museum of Health Care: Reading the Trade Cards

Curated by ACT

Trading cards were popular in the 1800s and 1900s as a way of advertising health and beauty products. This exhibit shows examples of various types and discusses the advertising techniques used. Younger children will especially enjoy the 'puzzle' trading cards.

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Concepts
advertising
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Additional Tags
advertising health and beauty, advertising health products, advertising history, advertising techniques, early health care products, early health products, early remedies, health and beauty products, trade cards, trading cards, history of canadian health care
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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