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Trade Cards:
The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly. Vols. 1-7 (1994-2000).
Barry, Kit. Reflections: Ephemera from Trades, Products, and Events. Vol. 2. Brattleboro, Vt.: Iris Publishing, 1994.
------. The Snake Oil Syndrome: Patent Medicine Advertising. Hanover, MA: Christopher Publishing, 1994.
Cheadle, Dave. Arctic Obsession: The Victorian Race for the North Pole. N.p.: Flashback Press, 1993.
------. Victorian Trade Cards: Historical Reference and Value Guide. Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1996.
Crane, Ben. The Before and After Trade Card. 1st ed. Schoharie, New York: Ephemera Society of America, Inc., 1995.
Forbes, Allan and Ralph M. Eastman. Yankee Sailing Ship Cards. Boston: State Street Trust Co., 1948.
------. Other Yankee Sailing Ship Cards. Boston: State Street Trust Co., 1949.
------. Yankee Sailing Ship Cards. Vol. 3. Boston: State Street Trust Co., 1952.
Keetz, Frank. Baseball Advertising Trade Cards. 2d ed. Schenectady, New York: F. Keetz, 1997.
Heal, Ambrose. London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIII Century, an Account of their
Origin and Use. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1925.
------. The Trade Cards of Engravers. London: Hudson & Kearns, Ltd., [1928].
Jay, Robert. The Trade Card in Nineteenth-Century America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
Jewell, Pat. Vice Art: An Anthology of London's Prostitute Cards. Harrogate: Broadwater House, 1993.
Landauer, Bella Clara. Early American Trade Cards from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer. New York: W. E. Rudge, 1927.
------. Gilbert and Sullivan Influence on American Tradecards. New York, 1936.
------. Some Terpsichorean Tradecards from the Bella C. Landauer Collection at the New York Historical Society. [New York?], [1940].
------. The Indian does not Vanish in American Advertising : from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer at the New York Historical Society. N.p., 1940.
------. Some Alcoholic Americana; From the Collection of Bella C. Landauer. New York: Harbor Press, 1932.
------. Some Embossed American Tradecards. New York: Harbor Press, 1941.
------. Pre-Frigidaire Ice Ephemera. N.p., 1943.
------. "Tradecards: An Overlooked Asset." Bulletin of the Business Historical Society 4, no. 3 (May 1935): 33-38.
------. "A Short History of Trade Cards." Bulletin of the Business Historical Society 5, no. 3 (April 1931): 1-6.
Landauer, Bella Clara and others. Cameo Cards & Bella C. Landauer: A Monograph of the Ephemera Society of America. Schoharie, New York.: Ephemera Society of America, 1992.
Loomis, Herbert D. 19th Century Advertising Cards: An Introductory Study. Newtown Square, Pa.: Deltiologists of America, [198-?].
Mobley, William Frost. An American Enterprise: A Fully Illustrated Catalog with
over 1250 Items. Catalog 3-4. Schoharie, New York.: Wm. Frost Mobley, 1995.
------. Wm. Frost Mobley Presents a Visual History of Trades and Professions : A Unique Collection of Advertising Trade Cards, Broadsides, Business Stationery, etc. Portraying the Social, Cultural, Commercial and Professional History of Society. Catalog 2. Wilbraham, Mass.: W.F. Mobley, 1981.
------. A Fully Illustrated Sales and Reference Listing of 19th Century Printed Ephemera. Catalog 1 of A Superlative Selection of American-Nineteenth-Century Historical and Advertising Broadside and Trade Cards. Monson, Mass.: Joseph E. Poirier, Blatchley's Printers, 1980.
McCulloch, Lou W. Paper Americana: A Collector's Guide. San Diego: A. S. Barnes & Company, Inc., 1980.
General Reference Works:
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1973.
Collins, James H. The Story of Canned Foods. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1924.
Cooper, Grace Rogers. The Sewing Machine: its Invention and Development. 2d ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976.
Davis, Alec. Package and Print; The Development of Container and Label Design. New York: C. N. Potter, [1967?].
Fowler, Bertram Baynes. Men, Meat, and Miracles. New York: Messner, 1952.
Fox, Richard Wightman and T.J. Jackson Lears, eds. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
Fugate, Francis L. Arbuckles: the Coffee that Won the West. 1st ed. El Paso,
Tex.: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1994.
Garvey, Ellen Gruber. The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of
Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hampe, Edward C. The Lifeline of America: Development of the Food Industry.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: BasicBooks, 1994.
Levenstein, Harvey A. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the
American Diet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
McClinton, Katharine Morrison. The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang. 1st ed. New York: C. N. Potter, distr. by Crown Publishers, 1973.
Marzio, Peter C. The Democratic Art: An Exhibition on the History of
Chromolithography in America, 1840-1900. Ft. Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum
of Western Art, 1979.
Marzio, Peter C. The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th-Century America: Chromolithography, 1840-1900. Ft, Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1979.
Morgan, Hal. Symbols of America. New York: Viking, 1986.
Norris, James D. Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Pollay, Richard W. Information Sources in Advertising History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Presbrey, Frank. The History and Development of Advertising. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1929.
The Story of a Pantry Shelf: An Outline History of Grocery Specialties. New York: Butterick, 1925.
Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. 1st ed. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
Strasser, Susan. Satisfaction Guaranteed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
Wright, Helena E. "The Image Makers: The Role of the Graphic Arts in Industrialization"Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 12, no. 2. (1986): 5-18.
Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and
Environs in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana, Il.: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent
Medicines in America before Federal Regulation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
Trade Card Resources Online:
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900, full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera, including trade cards, printed between 1760 and 1900, based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection. This collection is restricted to Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required.
John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera, full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images of 67,754 documents, consisting of five different categories of material: nineteenth-century entertainment; the book trade; popular prints; crimes, murders and executions; and advertising, including trade cards. This collection is restricted to Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required.
The Ephemera Society of America, Inc., is a non-profit organization formed to encourage the preservation and study of ephemera. The site includes examples of ephemera, articles, available publications, and membership application.
The Trade Card Collector's Association supports the collecting and study of trade cards. The site includes information on articles and books on the subject of trade cards, links to trade card sites, and membership application.
The Trade Card Place, maintained by Ben Crane, proprietor and webmaster, includes articles on trade cards and links to dealers, collectors, organizations, and other trade card related websites.
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