Booksellers and bookselling

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...

Content Description This collection contains two subscription books kept by an unidentified traveling salesman, for use in the sale of subscriptions to the publication of An encyclopedia of domestic economy by T. Webster and Mrs. Parkes, A biography of wonderful characters by Henry Wilson, and Incidents of travel in Yucatan by John L. Stephens. Both volumes contain tipped-in prospectuses for the publications, as well as hand-written lists of...