Scope and Content Note
This series makes up the bulk of the collection. The following labels may be of interest to the researcher. Folder 1 has Camel,
the only label in the collection using an Arabian theme. It has also has the Red Ball logo blacked out. In Folder 2, Columbia
and Conversation show label variations between different brands using the same design with some modifications. Folder 3 contains
two Maduro labels showing the change from an early complex design composition with a woman as the focal point to a later simplified
design with the lemon still life in the center. Folder 5 has the label Peasant, a humorous design of an old woman. Most labels
depicted younger women as seen in Native Daughter, Princess, and Marquita, among others in the collection. Folder 5 also contains
Red Rover, the only label in the collection with a black Americana male as its subject. Yellow Aster , in Folder 6, shows
brand variation in terms of changes in the company affiliated with the brand and in the subject matter (from a buffalo hunt
to an orange still life).
- Folder 1: Albion-Casa Blanca (twenty-eight items)
- Folder 2: Chinook-Geranium (thirty items)
- Folder 3: Golden-Maine (thirty items)
- Folder 4: Mallard-Peacock (thirty-two items)
- Folder 5: Peasant-Squaw (twenty-eight items)
- Folder 6: Squirrel-Young Sports (thirty-three items)
- Folder 7: Stock labels (nine items)
- Folder 8: Over-sized labels (three items)