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Papers of the Charles H. Barry family of Pittstown, Rensselaer County, New York, include family, store, and blacksmith account books, 1806-79; a few personal letters and deeds; justice dockett, 1841-63; report on the condition of the Troy Turnpike, ca.1867; trade cards; and miscellaneous papers.

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Two albums compiled by Cora May Tichenor (8) in 1883. Both albums contain trade cards and other examples of chromolithography, some from Mecklenburg, Troy, Buffalo, Trumansburg, Varna, Ithaca, and Rochester. Images of flowers, children, and animals abound.

Scope and content Materials relating to the the history of manuscripts, lithography, and printing include a lithographer's stone, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items illustrating early photography, lithography, and printing; pamphlets relating to various aspects of teaching languages; pamphlets relating to sports and recreation; seven sheets of late fifteenth century Italian vellum manuscript, postcards and trade cards, World War II German armbands, autographed photograph of Jefferson Davis, also four...

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Papers of Franklin Robert Smith, a fruit grower from Ontario County, N.Y., including general accounts, 1883-1906. Also letters, miscellaneous business papers, trade cards and other advertising material.

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Helen Hill used her grandfather's 1834 account book as a scrapbook. In it she pasted poems, articles, trade cards, and other images.

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Printed and manuscript ephemera relating to canals, commerce and banking, education, politics and elections, religion, smoking, theater, travel and transportation, and technical equipment, primarily in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

Scope and content Papers include research files on Anna Botsford Comstock; research files on manuscript collections relating to China and Chinese students at Cornell; research files on Sarah Cooper; checklists of manuscript collections at Cornell relating to the West Indies, to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, to temperance, to architecture, and to Theodore Roosevelt; and information about cataloging and processing guidelines for the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Also photographs of...

Abstract The Nahum (Nach) Waxman Collection of Food and Culinary Trade Cards documents the history of food and household product industries through trade ephemera and advertising cards dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. It contains mainly trade cards, along with food labels, menus, advertising samples, culinary-themed print materials, and ephemera related to food, culinary, beverages, household and equipment, retail and commercial, agriculture, cigarettes, and more. The collection also offers...

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Broadsides, pamphlets, form letters, sample ballots, trade cards, campaign cards, bumper stickers, and other printed and mimeographed materials, as well as buttons and novelties documenting various New York State and local elections 1962-1964, distributed by the two major parties and the Liberal Party. In addition a frisbee supporting Morgenthau and Donovan and a Connie Cook pot holder.