Tobacco

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...

Scope and Contents This artificial and still open collection contains photographs and stereopticon slides, primarily from the second half of the 19th century. A wide variety of photographic processes is represented including collotypes, cyanotypes, platinotypes, albumen, and gelatin prints. The photographs are both amateur and professional, snapshots and posed portraits.Many of the photographs depict domestic life and show furnished interiors and household artifacts. Others show buildings and...

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...