Scrapbook of trade cards, 1861-1895. [1861-1895].

ArchivalResource

Scrapbook of trade cards, 1861-1895. [1861-1895].

515 chromolithograph trade cards pasted into scrapbook. Many of the cards make reference to the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition or the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. American and European firms represented include Mme. Demorest sewing patterns, M. Schulz & Bro. furnishings, Rogers & Brother silver, and Royal Worcester Corset Co.

1 v. ([58] p.) ; mounted cards ; 43 x 37 cm.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7526573

Related Entities

There are 20 Entities related to this resource.

Exposition Universelle of 1889 (Paris)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc2wxk (corporateBody)

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj7bv0 (corporateBody)

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Geo. S. Harris &Sons

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c02zfd (corporateBody)

Sunshine Publishing Co.,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6229m74 (corporateBody)

Giles Co.,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w26kz (corporateBody)

M. Schulz & Bro.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x921c (corporateBody)

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6479sr8 (corporateBody)

Rogers & Brother.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp3wcz (corporateBody)

Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6994t4z (corporateBody)

Gies & Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x41hf0 (corporateBody)

G. H. Dunston (Firm),

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r4md0 (corporateBody)

Schumacher & Ettlinger,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6423pr1 (corporateBody)

Sackett &Wilhelms Litho. &Prt. Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j16vcp (corporateBody)

Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zd4m7r (corporateBody)

Demorest, Mme. (Ellen Louise Curtis), 1824-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p59gwm (person)

L. Prang & Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g20sjj (corporateBody)

In the 1880s, L. Prang & Co. was commissioned by W.T. Walters to prepare 116 color plates for a book on his collection of oriental ceramics. It took three artists from the firm and nearly ten years to produce the chromolithographic plates. Five hundred copies of the book, Oriental Ceramics Art, were published in 1896. From the description of Proof book, 1891. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122555724 L. Prang & Co. made and published greeting cards for appr...

Royal Worcester Corset Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sn5ddr (corporateBody)

Manufacturer of hoop skirts, corsets, and related garments, established by David Hale Fanning in Worcester, Mass., 1861; existed until 1950. From the description of Advertisement, 1917 Sept. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962648 ...

G.H. Buek & Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n36pf4 (corporateBody)

Donaldson Brothers (Firm)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr5hw9 (corporateBody)

Ketterlinus Printing House

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m6tvm (corporateBody)