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A paper fan with cutouts of letterhead and trade cards of various hotels glued to the front and back. The letterhead and trade card cutouts represent hotels that were located throughout New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts.

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Scrapbook containing examples of products printed by the Consolidated Lithographing Corp. between 1943 and 1957. Products represented in this volume include labels, containers, advertising fliers, certificates, greeting cards, clock and watch faces, menus, and playing cards.

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Consists of 40 handbills and slip-ballads of London lottery ticket sellers, dated from 1803 to 1826. Most have humorous woodcut illustrationsand/or verse.

Scope and Contents Consists of 160 trade cards showing Japanese influences in their design. Most are chromolithographs. Major American printers--Prang and Bufford among them--are represented along with relatively obscure firms. A few are actual Japanese woodcuts, overprinted in the United States. Some are stock cards, while others were produced for specific businesses. Several cards take the form of round fans with handles. A full range of products are advertised through the cards: thread, clothing, food, tea,...

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Cards depict convertible furniture, chiefly objects that could be transformed into beds. Cards are unique to individual manufactures. Such items at the "Celebrated Windsor Folding Bed," Albee's National Upright Parlor Bed," Boyington's Automatic Folding Bed," "Ham's Convertible Chair and Wash-Bench," and desks and mantels that are actually beds are featured. One of the cards--from Paine's Furniture Store in Boston--shows a room setting with a youngster pulling down a bed from a corner.

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Trade card and pin-back button for ToideyCo Convertible CarSleeper children's car seat.