Trade card · 1869
Marvin & Co. fire and burglar safes
Marvin & Co., New York
Date
1869
Printed in
Trade card / advert with a mounted photograph
Type
Trade card
What it says
Marvin & Co. Fire and burglar safes. Warehouses in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
Printed in gold ink around a real photograph, an expensive way to sell safes in 1869.
Source: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, via Wikimedia Commons · No known copyright restrictions
Around the same time
1862 Herring’s Patent Champion Fire-Proof Safes
1871 From Chicago: 800 safes in the great fire
1872 Chicago. Herring’s Safes
1876 Guard against fire and thieves
1876 Chatwood’s “Invincible” Safes
1876 Hall’s Safe & Lock Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio
← 1862 Herring’s Patent Champion Fire-Proof Safes All adverts 1871 From Chicago: 800 safes in the great fire →
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