Division of Domestic Life Greeting Card Collection
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Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Norcross Greeting Card Company (West Chester (Pa.))
Prang, Louis, fl. 1880-1900
Rust Craft Greeting Card Company (Dedham (Mass.))
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ca. 1854-1975.
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6 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0109
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes greeting cards primarily filed by season or occasion and by name of designer/manufacturer, e.g., Valentines, Christmas cards, and cards by Louis Prang, Raphael Tuck, Marcus Ward, and a number of 20th century designers and manufacturers. Includes mechanical, hand-drawn, cutout, and fringed cards. Also other types of material, such as postca...
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Steyskal, Beatrice Morgan
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circa 1955-1985
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1198
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of greeting cards with machine woven and handwoven fabric inserts. Also included among the materials are machine woven fabric bookmarks.
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Korda, Ronald S., -1996
Korda, Catherine
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1952-1996
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57 Cubic feet (259 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0545
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sports and trading cards, 1952-1996, amassed by card collector Ronald S. Korda. The sports cards are subdivided by sport. Baseball cards, (1952-1996), comprise the vast majority of the sports cards, while football (1968-1996) and hockey (1968-1996) are the two next largest subseries. There are lesser quantities of cards for basketball, and only a few each for all other sports, such as racing, skiing, etc. Non-sports cards cover a large variety of popular culture topics, including motion pictures, television programs, popular music, toys, games, cars and trucks, comics, fantasy art, and many other subjects. Some ephemeral items are also included in the collection, such as sticker albums, posters and programs
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Norcross, Arthur Dickinson, d. 1968
Tuck, Raphael, fl. 1880s
Norcross Greeting Card Company (New York (N.Y.))
Rust Craft Publishers (Boston, Mass.)
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1800-1981
bulk 1880-1881
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202 Cubic feet (179 boxes, 362 volumes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0058
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collections consists of the records of both the Norcross Greeting Card Company founded in New York City in the 1920s and The Rust Craft Greeting Card Company, founded in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906. Both the Norcross and Rust Craft companies collected antique greeting cards. Also includes a small number of modern cards by other manufacturers, circa 1930-1980. Collection represents development of the greeting card industry, social trends in the United States and technology of the printing industry from 1924 through 1978.
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Coca-Cola Company
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[ca. 1940s]
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0634
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This set of aircraft spotter playing cards was issued by the Coca-Cola Company during World War II. The back of the box ( and the back of all of the cards) is a Coca-Cola advertisement, showing an illustration of an uniformed girl with radio headset holding a bottle of Coca-Cola. The front side of the cards include World War II aircraft from German...
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Gruppo, Barbara Pease
Rodney W. Pease, III
Piotrowicz, Elizabeth Pease
Pease, L.F.
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1908-1936; undated
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2.33 Cubic feet (7 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1251
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of samples of primarily greeting cards designed and created by the Lillian Pease Card Company.
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Graphic Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Conn, Nat
Tolman, Sarah
Tolman, Ruel P. (Ruel Pardee), 1878-1954
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1920 - 1980
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2 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0579
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1980s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn.
A collection of greeting cards, over 95% of them Christmas cards, received from the 1920s-1970s by two Washington, D.C. families, those of Ruel Tolman and Nat Conn. Pictorial subject matter includes the categories listed below.
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Spaeth, Merrie
Topps
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1956.
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0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0873
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
One hundred sixty (160) cards, with color photographs of scenes from the Disney film "Davy Crockett" on one side, and a number, title, (such as "Bowie's Last Stand"), and a synopsis of the scene on the other side. The collection is divided into two series, the first series being the orange backed cards, which were issued first, and Series two cons...
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Card, Thomas B.
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circa 1932-1947, 1961
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104 Negatives (nitrate)
625 color slides (circa)
1,218 Negatives (nitrate and acetate, 35 mm)
121 copy slides (black and white)
750 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2000-02
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National Anthropological Archives
The majority of the photographs were made by Thomas B. Card during World War II and the postwar years in Japan, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. He documented people, architecture, and scenery, as well as military bases and personnel in Okinawa, Japan. Additionally, there are images of Mexican archeological sites, Camp C...
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Hall, J. Eugene
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ca. 1895
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2,638 Items (cards )
2 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2483
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National Anthropological Archives
Alphabetical arrangement, Miami and Peoria interfiled; some cards identified as Miami or Peoria at upper right. Numbers following words presumably refer to pages in certain of Gatschet's notebooks. Handwritten cards are mainly in Gatschet's hand. Main dictionary 2638 cards.