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2003 Greencastle-Antrim advertising pieces from the collection of Mike Burger.
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The March exhibit is a wide-ranging
display of Greencastle-Antrim advertising pieces from the collection of Mike
Burger, Greencastle. He
has in his collection many advertising trade cards, postcards, and numerous
calendars from many local businesses of the past, |
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The trade cards of yesterday served the function of today’s business cards but with a lot more color and flare. |
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Two especially nice pieces in the collection are the die-cut lithograph calendars which are hanging on the display screens as you leave the small parlor. The colors are brilliant and the illustrations reminiscent of times past. |
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There are milk bottles from three Greencastle-Antrim dairies – R. W. Cordell, Baumgardner’s, and the Greencastle Sanitary Dairy. |
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Two small boxes of medicines, a small can of talc, numerous medicine bottles (both embossed and with paper labels), and paper advertisements all with Dr. Bixler’s name are in the large bedroom. |
| The variety and number of past businesses, with names long forgotten, is amazing as one reads the advertisements and archival pieces. | ||
| Advertising pieces from the museum’s collection include the glass slides for Carl’s Drug Store and Charles W. Martin, 63 North Allison Street, which are on the dining room window sill. |  |
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A bottle and eye glass case with glasses, and the electric sign from Carl’s Drug Store are in the step-back cupboard in the large parlor. |
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| Business trade cards are in a notebook on the library shelf and thermometers, a clock, milk bottles, hot pad, eye glass case with bifocal glasses of Dr. Keepers, a Johnston’s Whisky bottle, an Ice and Cold Storage ice pick and other items are on the corner of the south table in the large bedroom. |
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Enjoy your stroll through Greencastle-Antrim’s business history.