Thursday, February 17, 2011

Campbell Bros.



While these route cards are from different years, I have seen at least seven different headings on the route cards of the same season. Was this unique to just the Campbell show or did a lot of shows at the turn of the century keep changing the route card designs in the same season?

1 comment:

Dick Flint said...

Frequent changes were common, probably because local printers were used when the cards had to be produced. The show likely carried some stock cuts that they would give to a printer in the morning who would then use his own type to set the heading and the route info following the format of an earlier card given to him.
Dick Flint
Baltimore