#trade cards

[digitalnewberry]

Tricks of the trade card

John M. Wing Foundation printing ephemera collection

Trade cards—perhaps best described as a mash-up of a business card and advertisement—were popular throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The Newberry holds about two dozen collections of such cards, including specimens from England, Belgium, France, and America.... Trade cards also offer a window onto pre-Mad-Men-era marketing strategies (or lack thereof). The choice of text and imagery could be a bit random—questionable, even. For example, the Leipig Company used a passage from Hamlet in an advertisement for their Meat Extract; in retrospect, it seems a rather dubious decision to associate a food product with a scene describing poison. Another trade card advertising cough syrup shows children preparing the medicine by heating two kittens in a skillet. With its strange mix of Victorian sentimentality and (hopefully) dark humor, the card nevertheless endorses two universal truths: cats are like medicine and children should generally be supervised in the kitchen...

Advertising trade cards, 1860-1905

Read the full post by Jill Gage, the Newberry's Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing and Bibliographer for British Literature and History

Browse uncataloged 😶 trade cards at Newberry Digital Collections

Help to catalog 😀 trade cards at Postcard Tag, our crowdsourcing project

#newberry library #libraries #special collections #vintage #digital humanities #archives #trade cards #crowdsourcing #collection stories #postcards #zooniverse #advertising #postcard tag

[daguerreotyping]

A very beary Christmas, and a happy new fear

#this holiday season please take a moment to think of all those poor arctic explorers going unhugged... unkissed... uneaten #YOU can make a difference #greeting cards #trade cards #ephemera #victorian #ARCTIC HAMS

[zmaragdos]

Dii Consentes Goddesses

Trade cards from the "Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans" series (N188), issued in an unnumbered set of 50 cards in 1889 by W.S. Kimball & Co. (The Metropolitan Collection, Public Domain)

#goddess #greek and roman goddesses #greek #roman #trade cards #ceres #diana #minerva #juno #venus #vesta #tagamemnon

[petsincollections]

Illustration of two kittens wearing bonnets and sitting and sewing. Verso side: text,"Truth New York has on exhibit in the show window of Collins' Japanese store,$1,500 in presents to be given free to lucky guessers. Go in now and guess!."

Brooklyn Public Library, Fulton Street Trade Cards

Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York

#kittens #sewing #trade cards #advertising cards #brooklyn public library #fulton street trade cards #digital culture of metropolitan new york

[pwlanier]

Trade cards for Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Limited.

Wellcome Collection

#ephemera #advertising #trade cards #tobacco cards #meat extract

[labellenouvelle]

APPERSON AUTOMOBILE Co.

ART-DECO NEW ORLEANS

Oversized trade card for. APPERSON AUTOMOBILE COMPANY Of NEW ORLEANS , located at 618 Baronne street ( building still there ) Apperson was a brand of American cars of the brass era , manufactured in Kokomo, Indiana from 1901 to 1926 . America’s First Sports cars with models like the “Jack Rabbit “ with a price of $ 4,250 in 1910 and the “ Big Dick “ with a tag price of $ 7,500 in 1907 . A great piece for the automobilia collector and New Orleans history buff. Frame and display.

Item No. E4938-137

Dimensions:  6 1/4” x 3 5/8”

SOLD

504.581.3733 / t

[email protected] / e

#antiques #ephemera #trade cards #apperson automobile #brass era automobiles #art deco #great gatsby #art deco nola #old new orleans #historic new orleans #automobilia

[heracliteanfire]

C19th trade cards from the British Museum collection.

#trade cards #C19th #London

[adtothebone]

These storage box thingies with the magnetic lids are close to perfect for old postcards and trade cards if you can find the ones with the right depth — TJ Maxx had three sizes.

Dagnabbit on the pretty floral design tho.

#postcard #postcards #trade cards #trade card #vintage #antique #history #old paper #collect #collecting #collection

[love-for-carnation]

French Art Nouveau Trade Card

#dianthus #carnation #flowers #art nouveau #floral design #20th century art #trade cards

[pigs-in-art]

The card is a toy enclosed in each wrapped loaf of Dolly Madison Bread. The Mother Goose verse "To market, to market, to buy a fat pig" is the image caption.

#1922 #unknown artist #trade cards #pigs in art

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SV 151 (2023) Dragonair illustration by rika (removed card text)

#pokémon #official art #card art #pokémon trading card game #tcg #pokemon #pokémon scarlet and violet #pokémon 151 #151 #Pokémon 151 full card art #151 full card art #full card art #rika #dragonair

[gummyartstradingcards]

#trade cards #1880s #merchants gargling oil #card art #baseball cards

[389]

#raccoons #mtg cards #mtg #trading cards #magic the gathering #u #z

[zmaragdos]

The Three Fates

Trade cards from the "Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans" series (N188), issued in an unnumbered set of 50 cards in 1889 by W.S. Kimball & Co. (The Metropolitan Collection, Public Domain)

#goddess #greek and roman goddesses #atropos #klotho #lachesis #the three fates #trade cards #tagamemnon

[petsincollections]

Trade card with cat and paint palette, Compliments of Rothschild's One Price Clothing and Merchant Tailoring House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1880-1910

Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library

Minnesota Digital Library

#cats #painting #cats who love bob ross #trade cards #hennepin county library #minnesota digital library #james k hosmer special collections library #rothschild's one price clothing and merchant tailoring house #advertising cards

[goobersplat]

Hamtaro Trading Cards

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9

#png #transparent #kidcore #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #toycore #toywave #toys #trading card #card #Hamtaro #vintage #Japan #kawaii #hamster #art