The Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection 1885

updated 22 August 2018 <PREVIOUS PAGE       ~  index  ~        NEXT PAGE> The site of this business is now a public park.  J & P Coats, according to Wikipedia , was founded by James Coats in 1826 in Scotland. It merged with the Clark Thread Company and after several more iterations is now a part of Coats plc, a private multinational company. I guess. See below. As part of their 200th anniversary in 2012, Coats & Clark (with which it merged in the early 1950's) developed a great history of the company . The Coats & Clark timeline is a great feature of their site, as is their 1882 gallery of trade cards (which does not include this one). "Best six cord" refers to the quality of this thread, which is suitable for use in sewing machines, not just hand sewing. Racism permeated American and European culture in Victorian times. Its expression, however, was somewhat different ...