{"id":207,"date":"2016-01-23T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:16:47","slug":"definition-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Trading Stamp Book<\/i><\/b><b> issued by the Trading Stamp Company<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Providence, RI : Sperry and Hutchinson, 1900<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sidney S. Rider Collection<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trading_stamp\">Trading stamps<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">perform<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> similar functions as loyalty cards do at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> retailers do today. The Trading Stamp Company<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">issued this booklet to encourage consumers to collect stamps from local merchants that could be exchanged for goods. This issue lists Rhode Island merchants that distributed stamps. (<a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1990911~S7\">JOSIAH<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md.jpg\" alt=\"olio00000003519md\" width=\"337\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md.jpg 337w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md-100x178.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md-150x268.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md-200x357.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/olio00000003519md-300x535.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading Stamp Book issued by the Trading Stamp Company Providence, RI : Sperry and Hutchinson, 1900 Sidney S. Rider Collection Trading stamps perform similar functions as loyalty cards do at retailers do today. The Trading Stamp Company issued this booklet to encourage consumers to collect stamps from local merchants that could be exchanged for goods. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/972"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}