Finding Aid for the Collection of Trade Cards LSC.0611
Finding aid prepared by K. Landesman, May 1981; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Online finding aid last updated 2003.
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: A Collection of Trade Cards
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0611
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1870-1900
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Trade Cards (Collection 611). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Knepper, 1992-93.
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Processed by K. Landesman, May 1981.
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Scope and Content
Collection consists of trade or advertising cards of various companies, stores, and products. Includes Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee,
bakers and bakeries, Coca-Cola, dry cleaning, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, musical instruments, restaurants and
hotels, sewing machines, tobacco, Union Pacific Tea Company, Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, and Frostick
series of animal cards.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Collection is arranged alphabetically by industry or name of firm.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Trade cards.
box 1
Arbuckle's Ariosa Coffee.
box 1
Cereals, spices, and other foods.
box 1
Church & Company, Arm & Hammer.
box 1
Cigarette cards (portraits of entertainers).
box 1
Coffee and tea, miscellaneous distributors.
box 1
Drug-stores, patent medicines, and perfumes.
box 1
Farm and domestic implements.
box 1
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
box 2
Groceries,-meat and fish markets, and tea, coffee and spice shops.
box 2
Jewelry, clothing, and dry goods.
box 2
Series cards advertising various products.
box 2
Shoes, shoe stores, and shoe polishes.
box 2
Stoves and stove polishes.
box 2
Transformations and cards with moving parts.
box 2
Union Pacific Tea Company.
box 2
Yeasts and infants' foods.
box 2
Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania.
box 2
Frostick series of Animal cards.
