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 1 Collection or Record:
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]