Editing Sticker (section)

===User-moistened stickers===
The adhesive [[Penny Black|postage stamp]] appeared in 1840, then pharmacy bottle labels in 1850,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6zJbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA330-R1 Medical Label Warehouse advertisement] ''The Medical Times'' 1850 p330</ref> and other gummed and cut paper labels by the 1860s,<ref>Mack, Horace (1879) [https://books.google.com/books?id=OeA4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA225 ''History of Columbiana County Ohio'']</ref> which needed to be moistened with water to activate the adhesive before being affixed. Another early application was [[ex libris (bookplate)|book plate]]s and library tags.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PkoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA186 ''American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular''] 1867 v9 #7:186</ref>

[[File:Suitcase_with_luggage_labels_(178491614).jpg|thumb|Suitcase with luggage labels]]
Steamer trunk [[luggage label]]s which appeared in the 1870s represented an early status symbol.<ref>Hartov, Oren (2024) [https://www.analogshift.com/blogs/transmissions/hotel-luggage-label-history ''A History of the Hotel Luggage Label''] Analog:Shift</ref>

In some areas of the U.S. voters used stickers to enter pre-printed candidate names onto election ballots.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83020847/1882-10-27/ed-1/seq-1/#words=stickers State Campaign] MA ''Springfield Republican'' 1882-Oct-27 p1 5th column</ref> <ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83040340/1882-11-24/ed-1/seq-7/ "Stickers"] KS ''Iola Register'' 1882-Nov-24 p7</ref>

In 1886 continuous gummed paper tape was introduced for parcel sealing, then later available decorated around 1919.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=91jOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA27 ''Stationery Trades' Journal''] Nov 1927 pp12,27</ref>

In 1891 [[Trading stamp]] store loyalty programs began.

By 1896 the [[Return address]] pre-printed gummed label was being offered by printers.

The [[Brussels International Exposition (1897)]] in Belgium commissioned a series of stickers to promote the exhibition.

Around 1900 [[Avery Dennison|Dennison]] Manufacturing Company offered gummed seals in gold, silver, red, green and blue, soon followed by gold [[Five-pointed star|stars]], and flag stickers.<ref>
[https://books.google.com/books?id=5kY_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA413 ''Proceedings of New York State Teachers Association''] p413</ref> 

By 1902 stickers began to proliferate,<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/1902-10-24/ed-1/seq-4/ Epidemic of "Sticker Lips"] ''St. Louis Republic'' 1902-Oct-24 p4</ref> including dedicated businesses such as St. Louis Sticker Co.<ref>[https://www.ebay.com/itm/126913439250 1903 St. Louis Sticker Co.] St. Louis I Am A Sticker ebay.com</ref> <ref>
[https://books.google.com/books?id=T9186MX8so8C&pg=PA168 Stickers St Louis Sticker Co] ''Printers Ink Monthly'' 1926 V12 #5 p168</ref> 

In 1904 [[Christmas seals]] were first issued in Denmark.

Example early sticker campaigns in U.S. include Red Sticker Union Made campaign,<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063459/1906-04-13/ed-1/seq-3/ The Red Sticker] NE ''Wageworker Union'' 1906-Apr-13 p3</ref> [[American Red Cross]],<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1918-06-20/ed-1/seq-5/ Movement Reaches New York] ''Pensacola Journal'' 1918-Jun-20 p5</ref> and European Child Relief Fund.<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022871/1921-01-26/ed-1/seq-6/ Yes Mr. Hoover] [VT Barton] ''Orleans County Monitor'' 1921-Jan-26 p6</ref>

Sticker red [[Heart symbol|hearts]] are sold by 1911.<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1911-02-04/ed-1/seq-16/#words=stickers KS ''Topeka State Journal''] 1911-02-04 p16</ref>

Sometime after 1912 [[Cracker Jack]] included prize may have been [[temporary tattoo]] sticker, and later by breakfast cereal and bubble gum offerings.

Around 1914 the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] advocated their causes via [[Silent agitators|stickerettes]]
<ref>
[https://www.jstor.org/site/stlawu/iww-stickerettes-history/?so=item_title_str_asc History of I.W.W. "Silent Agitators" or "Stickerettes"] St. Lawrence University</ref>

Fruit origin stickers began in 1917,<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92070582/1917-02-17/ed-1/seq-8/ Blue Sticker] [NM Albuquerque] ''Evening Herald'' 1917-Feb-17 p8</ref> then later by [[Fyffes]] and widespread with 1990 [[Price look-up code|PLU code]]s.

In 1919 a business in Buffalo, New York, applied stickers on receipts with the word "thanks" and a smiling face.

Automobile window decals, such as National Park emblems,<ref>Francis, Michael H. & Reynolds, Bobby (2023)  [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPcJEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 Stickers & Decals] ''Yellowstone Collectibles'' Page 205</ref> became popular in 1920s.<ref>
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1924-08-06/ed-1/seq-1/ New Sticker Disease] ''Seattle Star'' 1924-Aug-6</ref>

In 1967 Topps began the [[Wacky Packages]] initial series of collectible moisten and stick cards.