Trade cards
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collaged paper fan
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-1024
Content Description
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.
Dates:
circa 1890
Found in:
Winterthur Library
Trade cards and labels collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Col-9
Scope and Contents
This artificial and still open collection contains thousands of trade cards and labels that advertise a variety of products, including house furnishings, toys and games, jewelry, horse equipage, gas appliances, foodstuffs, hardware, sewing products, paints, medicines, personal goods, etc. Service oriented businesses, such as commission merchants and insurance companies, also advertised through the collection's cards and labels. There are also stock cards (that is, cards kept in stock by...
Dates:
between approximately 1734 and approximately 1932
Found in:
Winterthur Library