Visual Materials
Series I. Fashion Prints and Ephemera (small size)
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Series II. Fashion Prints and Ephemera (large size)
Visual Materials
This series contains 250 large-size printed items that pertain to fashion, clothing and dress, textiles, and sewing supplies from the 1830s through 1920, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1850-1890. The material consists of advertising prints, calendars, newspapers, periodicals and clippings, product labels, fashion plates, caricatures in prints and periodical illustrations, and other visual materials, and is grouped according to the primary business, trade, or service associated with the principal entity represented by the item. The series contains color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 34 x 48 inches.
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Series I. Beverage Prints and Ephemera (small size)
Visual Materials
This series contains approximately 3,175 small-size printed items that pertain to the beverage industries and related products in the United States from approximately 1840-1930. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to beverage industries. The beverage-affiliated entities represented in this series include breweries, distilleries, liquor distributors, tea and coffee merchants, milk suppliers and dairies, and water and ice companies. Item types include trade cards, die-cut scraps, calendars, booklets, product labels, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. The materials in this series either promote or are broadly connected to beverage-related products, services, or sponsoring businesses. Many of the images depict bottles, barrels, and drinks, though the collection also has a wide variety of other images, including young women; animals; children and families; comic scenes and caricatures of ethnic groups such as Chinese, Native American Indians and African Americans; views of buildings and landscapes; and patriotic symbols and vignettes. Items are arranged mainly by product type and then alphabetically according to company name. Groupings include: Beer, Liquor, and Wine; Coffee and Tea; Juice (including ciders and cider vinegars), Soda, and Water (including ice); and Milk. Items smaller than 8 x 10 inches are housed in binders, while items that are between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size are individually sleeved and arranged in folders in one box.
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Series I. Circus Prints and Ephemera (small size)
Visual Materials
This series contains over 500 printed items, 11 x 14 inches or smaller, that pertain to circuses in the United States from approximately 1850 to 1991, with the bulk of items dating from 1880 to 1960. Items consist of advertising and promotion ephemera that promote circuses or were used as business documents by circuses. Item types include trade cards, programs and souvenir books, route cards, envelopes, tickets, songsters, and printed billheads and letterheads. While some of the stationery is filled out in manuscript with miscellaneous correspondence or invoices, the series does include a substantial amount of blank letterhead.
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Series I: Small size prints and ephemera
Visual Materials
This series consists of approximately 1,700 small sized items relating to fireworks, lottery schemes, sports, recreational activities, games, toys and novelties that date from approximately 1758 to approximately 1938. Formats range from broadsides to billheads, letterheads, booklets, paperdolls, card games, trade cards, puzzle cards, and dime novels.
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Series I. Military prints and ephemera (small size)
Visual Materials
This series contains almost 4,500 small-size printed items that pertain to or portray imagery of military and wartime primarily related to the United States from 1785 to approximately 1900. The majority of this series consists of Civil War-era patriotic envelopes, also called patriotic covers, which number over 4,200 (Binders 2-31). These envelopes feature patriotic slogans and printed illustrations of battle scenes, forts, hospitals, city views, portraits of military officers and political figures, and depictions of patriotic symbols such as flags, eagles, and the goddess Columbia. While most of the envelopes are unused, several do have manuscript text and/or postmarks. A few envelopes also have coordinating letterhead stationery. (Note: Stationery items with coordinating patriotic envelopes are housed with their respective envelopes in Binders 2-31. Stationery items without coordinating envelopes in this collection are housed with General Ephemera in Binder 1.) Letterheads, postcards, booklets, souvenir items, trade cards, tickets, and other promotional materials from a variety of businesses printed with military-related illustrations comprise the General ephemera (Binder 1) in this series. Civil War song sheets with music and lyrics, often with printed and hand-colored illustrations, are found in Binder 32.
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Series I. Horticulture Prints and Ephemera (small size)
Visual Materials
This series contains approximately 1,375 small-size printed items that pertain to or portray imagery of horticulture in the United States from 1840 to 1933. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to horticultural industries. The horticulture-affiliated entities represented in this series include nurseries, florists, seed companies and lawn mower manufacturers. Item types include trade cards, catalogs, catalog covers, booklets, seed packets, price lists, and printed billheads and letterheads with and without manuscript text. The materials in this series either promote or are connected to horticulture-related products, services, or sponsoring businesses. Binder 1 is the exception, containing promotional ephemera featuring images of anthropomorphic fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants promoting hoticulture-affiliated businesses as well as companies in unrelated industries.
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