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Cigarette silks and tobacco felts. Included in this collection are images of actresses, sports figures, flowers, flags, birds, and other subjects. Also satin and felt "cards" depicting Cornell subjects. Some are likely from the American Tobacco Company, which produced Egyptienne Luxury brand.

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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 Correspondence, clippings, postcards, trade cards and scrapbooks of Jane Lightfoot Beaumont and the Lightfoot family, Penn Yan, Yates County, New York. Correspondents include Winifred Graville and Sidney Clarke. Also, typescript "American Descendents of John and Ann Lightfoot of Foggathorpe, England"; phrenological head; shoulder yoke used by the Universal Friend; timber measuring can; fire company badges; scrapbook of Luella D. Everett; material concerning Edson S. Lott; and Jane Beaumont's...

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Punchboards; also a small amount of manuscript material such as manufacturers' catalogs, manufacturers' trade cards, direct mail advertising, fliers, photographs, and collector's correspondence.

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Cards advertising the services of prostitutes who will come to the customer's hotel room. Also included are a few advertisements for events at nightclubs.

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Trade cards with color images of Korea from the series titled "En Corée," depicting local dress, farmers harvesting rice, a fortune teller, women walking on stilts, and buildings in Seoul, including the imperial palace. On the back of each card is a printed caption and, above it, an advertisement for Liebig meat extract.

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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>900 different prostitutes' trade cards, plus some duplicates, produced primarily as advertisements to be posted inside traditional red London phone booths (on the glass itself or inserted between the glass and frame), from which these were regularly retrieved by Timothy d'Arch Smith and his godson Matthew Ayres from 1991-2006, almost entirely in the Baker Street/Paddington area and in Earls Court.

Scope and content Trade cards with color images of Korea, such as the Korean flag, local dress, and images from the Korean War and other military engagements. Several are cards from series on nations of the world or flags of the world. Some of the cards include text advertising particular products, such as chocolate or cigarettes. Included are a card commemorating the truce that ended the Korean War in 1953, and a card commemorating a battalion from Belgium and Luxembourg that fought in the war. Firms that...

Scope and content Promotional cards in sizes varying from 2" x 3.5" to 5.5" x 8.5", as well as a few stickers. The cards are advertising hip hop events, album releases, tributes for fallen artists, and stores on the West Coast in the late 1900s and early 2000s. Legends such as Mos Def, Questlove, and Ice T are represented as well as newer artists such as Young Bo, dubbed "LA's B-Boy". Included in the set is a card for an Erykah Badu ("First Lady of Neo-Soul") show at the Greek Theatre, a 1999 performance of...