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.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cards and Illustrations Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-093
Abstract
The scrapbooks in this collection contain holiday cards, advertising and trade cards, and illustrations of people, animals, and flowers. One of the scrapbooks and some pages belonged to the Bennett family of Kansas. Some of the loose scrapbook pages were likely created by the Parmelee family of Connecticut. The owners and creators of the other scrapbooks and loose pages are unidentified.
Dates:
[ca. 1880s-1940s]
Alice Ross Culinary Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-008
Abstract
The Alice Ross Ephemera Collection includes more than 2,000 pieces of ephemera related to food & culinary history, advertising/marketing, food production, agriculture, holidays and celebrations, and domestic culture, dating from the mid-19th to the mid/late 20th century.
Dates:
c.1860s-1960s
Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-097
Abstract
The Shaver and Schaeffer Family Collection consists of a variety of materials, which range in dates from 1872 to 1977. The collection includes photographs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute memorabilia, printed materials, such as coupons, advertisements, and pamphlets, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondences, diplomas, certificates, family papers, ephemera, publications, newspaper pages, newspaper clippings, calling cards, pay stubs, church offering stubs, and additional materials collected by the...
Dates:
1872-1977