Menden trade card collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1910.

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Menden trade card collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53394336

Printed trade cards, advertisements, calling cards, greeting cards and other decorative ephemera. The trade card collection represents an enormous range of advertising and decorative printed ephemera produced in the United States during the last half of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th. There are cards for the manufacturers and retailers of soap, sewing machines, thread, dress patterns, laundry soap and household cleansers and musical instruments. One also finds cards based on Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Mother Good and nursery rhymes. Chromolithography was the primary means for reproduction, particularly of the graphic imagery, although many cards are reproduced via monochrome lithography and bear text supplied by letterpress printing. Many prominent lithographers of the late 19th century are represented, including J.H. Bufford, Donaldson Brothers, Gies & Co., Ketterlinus, L. Prang and Raphael Tuck. Also printed works and ephemera related to Lewis Carroll and his Alice in Wonderland, Kate Greenaway, and an album of 19th century bookmarks and printed ribbons of a political, business and sentimental nature.

11 v. ; 33 cm. + 4 linear ft.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667652

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg4hpc (person)

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in England at Daresbury, Cheshire, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge on January 27, 1832. In 1851, Dodgson matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1855 was appointed to a mathematical lectureship in that college, of which he remained a member for the rest of his life. A lifelong interest in writing, combined with a predisposition for story telling, word play, and games, led to a unique liter...

Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901

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Artist and book illustrator. From the description of Letters, 1895-1901. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40067220 English illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to an unidentified correspondent, 1885 March 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270501055 Kate Greenaway, English illustrator. From the description of Kate Greenaway manuscript material : 1 item, 1889 (New York Public Library). WorldCa...

Menden, Marjorie Bache, d. 1962.

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This collection was assembled by Marjorie Bache Menden (Mrs. Edward Menden), Smith College Class of 1930. From the description of Menden trade card collection, ca. 1850-ca. 1910. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 53394336 ...