Advertisements
Scope and Contents
This artificial and still open collection contains printed broadsides, brochures, posters, and other advertising material. Printed processes used include: woodblock printing, engraving, lithography, and photolithography. The majority of the material was produced during the 19th century in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. The most numerous ads are for furniture, clothing and dress, pottery and glassware, and booksellers/stationers. The many illustrations depict products, mechanical design, costume, ethnic groups, commercial architecture, and domestic scenes. A few are printed on objects such as checkerboards, calendars, or paper puzzles and games. Others contain samples of products such as fabric or wood.
Dates
- Creation: between approximately 1740 and approximately 1940
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Full Extent
1 map case drawer and 27 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Universal 1.0 Public Domain Dedication Creative Commons license.
Arrangement
Ads are filed by subject (first subject listed in the subject field), but also divided by size.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts and purchases from various sources.
Digitized Version
Digitized images of the collection are available on Winterthur Library's Digital Collections site.
Topical
- Amusements
- Architecture
- Art
- Artists' materials
- Auctions
- Automobile industry and trade
- Bedding
- Beds
- Beverages
- Book industries and trade
- Brooms and brushes
- Building materials
- Cards
- Cleaning
- Clocks and watches
- Clothing and dress
- Commercial products
- Commission merchants
- Confectionery
- Containers
- Decoration and ornament
- Department stores
- Dress accessories
- Drugstores
- Dry-goods
- Dyes and dyeing
- Education
- Electric apparatus and appliances
- Farm equipment
- Floor coverings
- Food
- Footwear
- Fuel
- Furniture
- Garden ornaments and furniture
- Gardening
- Glass
- Hair
- Hardware
- Hats
- Heating
- Hides and skins
- Horses
- Hotels
- House furnishings
- Household supplies
- Ink
- Interior decorators
- Jewelry
- Kitchen utensils
- Laundry
- Lighting
- Machinery industry
- Maps
- Medicine
- Metal-work
- Mirrors
- Miscellanea
- Museums
- Music
- Office equipment and supplies
- Paint
- Paper
- Perfumes
- Periodicals
- Photography
- Picture frames and framing
- Plastics
- Plumbing
- Pottery
- Printing
- Real property
- Recreation
- Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
- Restaurants
- Rope
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Sewing
- Silver
- Soap
- Stationery
- Stone industry and trade
- Stoves
- Textile fabrics
- Tobacco
- Toys
- Transportation
- Travel
- Treenware
- Vehicles
- Wall hangings
- Washing machines
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Parrish
- Date
- October 1992
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- December 2025: Revised in DACS by Kori Newboles
Repository Details
Part of the Winterthur Library Repository