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
- Repository:
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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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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
- Repository:
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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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Steyskal, Beatrice Morgan
- Dates:
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circa 1955-1985
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2 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1198
- Repository:
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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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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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1,200 Cubic feet (3,010 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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1996-1997
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6.5 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 98-046
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of visitor comment cards from the traveling exhibition, "America's Smithsonian." Venues for which comment cards exist in this accession include Los Angeles, Kansas City, New York, Providence, St. Paul, and Houston.
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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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Lee, Edith Lavinia
Fairmont Seminary (Washington, D.C.)
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circa 1912-1927
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1 Cubic foot (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1415
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Scrapbook compiled by Lee, documenting her time as a student at the Fairmont Seminary in Washington, D.C. in the 1910s. The scrapbook mostly documents the social lives of Lee and other students at the school, especially the dances, sporting events, graduations and other activities at the U.S. Naval Academy. The contents of the scrapbook include a h...
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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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circa 1899-1955
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126 Chromolithographs (126 trade cards (13 sets))
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2008-005
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection consists of 126 chromolithographic trade cards (13 sets) published by the Leibig Company between 1899 and 1955. These trade cards were included with products sold in Europe, such as chicken soup and chocolate. The cards focus on African art and material culture and showcase distinctive ethnic types, artistic and craft traditions, cultural performance, dress/costume and leadership. Sets include In Transvaal, In Abyssinia, Scenes of Africa, In East Africa I, Madagascar, In East Africa II, Life Among the Congolese People, Wild Animals of the Congo, The Italian Empire, Congolese Craftsmanship, Hunting and Fishing in the Belgian Congo, Peoples of the Belgian Congo, and History of the Belgian Congo I-III. Captions on the cards appear in French, Italian and German.
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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...
