Visual Materials

Series I. Food Prints and Ephemera (small size)

Description

This series contains approximately 4,900 small-size printed promotional ephemera items that pertain to food industries and related products in the United States from approximately 1850-1945.

The food-affiliated entities represented in this series include growers, packers, distributors, merchants, manufacturers, grocers, and restaurants and eateries. Item types include mainly trade cards, product labels, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text.

Many of the images depict food, though the collection also contains a wide variety of other images, including women; animals; children; flowers; and views of industrial buildings, farms, orchards, and vineyards.

Type

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Date

approximately 1850-1945

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Series II. Food Prints and Ephemera (large size)

Visual Materials

This series contains more than 45 large-size advertising and promotional items related to food industries in the United States from approximately 1845 to the 1960s, with the majority of items spanning from 1875 to 1920. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising prints and labels produced for manufacturers, growers, packers, and distributors, but also includes engravings and woodcuts. Genres represented include advertising prints, views of factories and storefronts, and product labels. Items in this series range in size from approximately 12 x 13 inches to 29 x 42 inches.

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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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Series I. Agriculture Prints and Ephemera (small size)

Visual Materials

This series contains approximately 2,190 small-size printed items that pertain to or portray imagery of agriculture in the United States from approximately 1818 to 1915. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to agricultural industries. The agriculture-affiliated entities represented in this series include fertilizer companies, implement and machinery vendors and manufacturers, and fencing suppliers. Products advertised include harvesters, plows, reapers, rakes, hoes, tedders, pumps, windmills, fertilizer, and barb wire fencing for livestock. Item types include trade cards, leaflets, handbills, calendars, price lists, small catalogs, and printed billheads and letterheads with and without manuscript text.

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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. Transportation Prints and Ephemera (small size)

Visual Materials

This series contains more than 570 small-size printed items pertaining to land-based modes of transportation primarily in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. The series consists of miscellaneous business records and advertising and promotional materials produced for or related to the bicycle, carriage and wagon, railroad, and freight and passenger transport industries. While most of the pieces date from the late 1870s through 1905, among the earliest items in the collection is an 1826 pamphlet printed for the American Tract Society entitled "All Right." A dialogue between a coach guard and a passenger. Items range in size from approximately 1 x 3 inches to 11 x 9 inches and though many of images depict transportation vehicles and related equipment, there is a wide variety of imagery including views of factories, buildings, and storefronts, images of children, young women, birds, animals, flowers, trees, and cartoons and caricatures. The transportation-affiliated entities represented in this series include vehicle, part, equipment, and accessory manufacturers, dealers, and retailers such as wheel works, carriage, sleigh, and wagon builders, bicycle manufacturers, and locomotive and car machine shops. Item types include printed booklets, business cards, calendars, catalogs, envelopes, handbills, labels, leaflets, postcards, trade cards, and separated book and periodical illustrations, as well as stationery with printed billheads and letterheads filled out with manuscript or typewritten correspondence.

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Series I. Maritime Prints and Ephemera (small size)

Visual Materials

This series contains approximately 1,090 small-size printed items that pertain to travel, shipping, and other maritime-related activities and businesses in the United States from 1704 to 1939. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records relevant to steamship companies, sailing vessels, shipping entities, passenger lines, and related businesses and publications. The vast majority of these items are bills of lading and steamship passes, but the collection also has trade cards, timetables, booklets, directory ads, menus, passenger lists, postcards, handbills, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. 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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