Trade cards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Small printed sheets, and later cards, bearing tradesmen's advertisements, often including an engraved illustration; produced from the 17th through the 19th century. For cards made later, bearing the name and address of a business concern and the name of its representative, and intended more for information than for advertising, use "business cards." For cards made later and distributed for advertisement, use "advertising cards," and for those made later and issued primarily to be collected, with or without advertisements on them, use "collecting cards."
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Album, circa 1850?
Item — Vol. 8
Call Number: MSS 16
Scope and Contents:
Scrapbook features prints clipped from various sources; several business cards from shops in London, Florence, and Chiavenna; and a small group of drawings by Mary and Baldwyn. The collection of prints is peculiar in its range of subjects: among portraits, picturesque scenes, and fine-art reproductions, there are several newspaper engravings that suggest especially lurid stories. The most notable include the beheading of a prisoner—an undated journal illustration, likely for a report on the...
Dates:
circa 1850?
American Trade Card Collection
Collection
Call Number: AOB 3
Overview:
The collection consists of illustrated 19th century trade cards (small printed cards, bearing tradesmen’s advertisements and including an illustration); early 20th century advertising cards which were distributed by merchants or manufacturers to advertise or promote their business or product; and a small number of collecting cards.
Dates:
circa 1870-1950
Autobiography, circa 1836-1857
Item — Vol. 5: Series 2
Call Number: MSS 15, Series II
Scope and Contents:
Original autograph manuscript of C.R. Leslie's autobiography (published as: Autobiographical recollections by the late Charles Robert Leslie, R.A. London: John Murray, 1860).The manuscript is written in pen and ink, in Leslie's hand throughout. It is heavily revised and edited. A significant number of passages here were omitted in the published version, edited by Tom Taylor.Mounted at front is the engraved trade card of Leslie's father:...
Dates:
circa 1836-1857
Business card: Phrogg. Peter Drew, Harrogate design firm., 1980
Item — Box 1: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5, Folder: 18
Call Number: MSS 17 , Series V
Scope and Contents:
With wood-engraved illustration by Richard Shirley Smith.
Dates:
1980
Ellis Gamble, Goldsmith, at the Golden Angel in Cranbourn-Street, Leicester-Fields. Makes, Buys & Sells all sorts of Plate, Rings & Jewells., undated
Item — 2-347
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
Engraved trade card for Ellis Gamble, goldsmith.
Dates:
undated
Ellis Gamble, goldsmith at the Golden Angel in Cranbourn-Street, Leicester-Fields. Makes, buys and sells all sorts of plate, rings, and jewels. A.M. Ireland sculp., undated
Item — 1-303
Call Number: MSS 10
Dates:
undated
William Helfand collection of medical ephemera
Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 8
Overview:
The collection contains printed ephemera related to medicine and pharmacy either arranged in albums by William Helfand or donated in loose form. These include trade cards (some on marijuana and street drugs), postcards, advertisements in various formats for patent medicines and devices, advertisements for cancer cures, playing cards, cards of famous scientists and physicians, stock certificates for pharmaceutical companies, photographs of old pharmacies, pharmacy prescription envelopes,...
Dates:
1817-2007
Mary Leighton Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 16
Overview:
The collection comprises ten original sketchbooks, albums, and scrapbooks compiled by Mary Leighton and her children, 1824-1860.
Dates:
1824-1860
Letter to Lizzie Hester Whyte, 1885 April 4
Item — 1: Series 1 [39002100397224], Folder: 10
Call Number: MSS 19 , Series I
Scope and Contents:
From an unidentified sender. Addressed to St. James' Road in Great Malvern. Letter expresses "best Easter wishes" with a small trade card of Edwin A Walford, Bookseller on High Street in Banbury.
Dates:
1885 April 4
Lynda Franklin Antiques & Interiors. Business cards and postcards designed by Richard Shirley Smith., 2008
Item — Box 1: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5, Folder: 58
Call Number: MSS 17 , Series V
Scope and Contents:
Two business cards and three postcards.
Dates:
2008
Medical trade card collection
Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 6
Overview:
This collection contains about a thousand chromolithograph advertising trade cards related to health, nutrition, and remedies, published from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The majority of the trade cards were produced by the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, Antwerp, Brussels, founded in 1865. Other trade cards in the collection were distributed mostly by American patent medicine manufacturers.
Dates:
ca. 1872-1958, bulk 1885-1910
Monson Family Invoices
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 13
Overview:
The collection holds more than 170 invoices and receipts issued to members of the wealthy and aristocratic Monson family of London and Lincolnshire, between the years 1730 and 1834.
Dates:
1730-1834
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library
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Monson Family Invoices
William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : general ephemera
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 27
Overview:
The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: General Ephemera is an artificial collection of miscellaneous, non-book materials long associated with the Speck Collection but previously uncataloged. The collection demonstrates how Goethe and his works entered into the popular culture in the late nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. The collection includes a few items relating directly to Goethe, such as pens that he used and his grandfather Textor's seal, as well as items...
Dates:
1766-1999
Whyte Family Correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MSS 19
Overview:
The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.
Dates:
1880-1892