Season Ticket for Commercial Travelers' Fair, Benefitting Down-on-their Luck Traveling Salesmen
New York, New York: Commercial Travelers' Home Association of America, 1896. Illustrated season ticket for the Commercial Traveler's Fair, held at Madison Square Garden. Profits from the fair are advertised as earmarked as being "devoted solely to the completion of the Commercial Travelers' Home for indigent commercial travelers and their dependent wives or widows and children, now in course of erection at Binghamton New York" (recto).
The verso serves as an advertisement and coupon for Sozodont toothpaste, "The Only Dentifrice of International Reputation", with illustration of a fashionable woman smiling into a mirror. Also includes small advert for The Home Magazine.
Measures 3.5" by 6.5". Blue ink stamps of ticket number (E 518) on recto.
Price: $115.00
Item #21001552