Rock Island Stove Company

Rock Island Stove Company Advertising Button Museum
Category
Advertising
Innovative
Additional Images
Rock Island Stove Company button back Advertising Button Museum
Text on Button ALL RIVERSIDE'S ARE GUARANTEED . ROCK ISLAND STOVE CO. ROCK ISLAND, ILL. KANSAS CITY, MO. RIVERSIDE RANGES ARE QUICK BAKERS- RIVERSIDE HEATERS ARE WINTER CHASERS
Image Description

Black text with black decorative swirls in the center of button, black text around border on off-white background. 
Curl Text J.B. CARROL CHICAGO
Back Style
Mirror
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 3/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1890s
The Manufacturer
J. B. Carroll Chicago
Additional Information

The Rock Island Stove Company like many businesses at the turn of century released pieces of memorabilia. The company itself produced various heating/cooking stoves beginning in 1868 up until the stock market crash of 1929. The company is unique in that it was one of the first to produce stoves for western areas. The three men from Geneso (IL) who founded the company came to Rock Island in 1870 and officially founded the Rock Island Stove Company. At the company's height it sold  heaters all the way from Virginia to Oregon. 
Other promotional goods the company put out included pocket mirrors for make-up application (with the name of the company on them) and entire cookbooks in order to appeal to women through the 1890s - 1920s.
Catalog ID AD0327