Guide to the Trade and Advertising Card Collection
Arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Guide to the Trade and Advertising Card Collection
Collection number: Mss 264
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Jan. 27, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Trade and Advertising Card Collection
Dates: ca. 1870s-1910s
Collection number: Mss 264
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains 126 trade and advertising cards, many color lithographs, from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, for products such as bicycles and bicycling; boots and shoes; building materials;
food, drink and restaurants; horse and equine equipment; machinery and equipment; organs and pianos; printing (including lithography)
and photography; railroad locomotives and cars; soap; theater and performance; wringers and washers; also depictions of African
Americans, ‘Uncle Sam’, and Bufford Company (Boston, MA lithographers) advertisement and trade cards.
Physical location: Del Sur.
Languages:
English
None.
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Trade and Advertising Card Collection. Mss 264. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 126 trade and advertising cards, many color lithographs, from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, for products such as bicycles and bicycling; boots and shoes; building materials;
food, drink and restaurants; horse and equine equipment; machinery and equipment; organs and pianos; printing (including lithography)
and photography; railroad locomotives and cars; soap; theater and performance; wringers and washers; also depictions of African
Americans, ‘Uncle Sam’, and Bufford Company (Boston, MA lithographers) advertisement and trade cards.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Advertising cards.
J.H. Bufford & Co.
Box
126 trade and advertising cards, ca. 1870s-1910s