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  • Early California trade cards.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco, 1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (BookClub) 73-176 ser. 1966Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A guide to collecting trade and cigarette cards / Roy Genders.

    • Text
    • London : Pelham Books, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 76-4233Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • [Collection of American trade cards.

    • Text
    • n. p., 1875-80]
    • 1875-1880
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MEBF+ 77-56Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • The U.S. card collectors catalog / listings assembled by J.R. Burdick.

    • Text
    • Syracuse, N.Y. : J.R. Burdick, 1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents S 2042Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Transit advertising rates and data.

    • Text
    • Skokie, Ill., Standard Rate and Data Service, 1951-1978.
    • 1951-1978
    • 20 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TWA+ (Standard Rate and Data Service. Transportation) Library has: v. 33, no. 1-v. 60, no. 2; Jan. 1951-May. 1978 (incomplete). v. 54-55 1972-73Offsite
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    Text TWA+ (Standard Rate and Data Service. Transportation) Library has: v. 33, no. 1-v. 60, no. 2; Jan. 1951-May. 1978 (incomplete). v. 56-58 1974-76Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TWA+ (Standard Rate and Data Service. Transportation) Library has: v. 33, no. 1-v. 60, no. 2; Jan. 1951-May. 1978 (incomplete). v. 59 1977Offsite
  • Rule Britannia : trading on the British image / Robert Opie.

    • Text
    • London : Viking ; New York, N.Y. : Viking Penguin, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 86-1895Offsite
  • Die Handwerkskundschaften der Schweiz : Arbeitsattestate wandernder Gesellen / Klaus Stopp.

    • Text
    • Weissenhorn (Bayern) : Konrad, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MDBF 86-1782Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • American advertising postcards : sets and series, 1890-1920, with price guide / Frederic H. Megson and Mary S. Megson.

    • Text
    • Martinsville, NJ : Postcard Lovers ; New York, N.Y. : Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW 88-1580Offsite
  • Liebigbilder : grosse Welt im Kleinformat / Detlef Lorenz.

    • Text
    • Berlin : Verein der Freunde des Museums für Deutsche Volkskunde, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW 88-2619Offsite
  • Lobby cards : the classic films : the Michael Hawks collection / text by Kathryn Leigh Scott ; foreword by Joan Bennett.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles ; London : Pomegranate Press, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFL 88-4444Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • The trade card in nineteenth-century America / Robert Jay.

    • Text
    • Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW 87-7095Offsite
  • Print's best letterheads & business cards : winning designs from Print magazine's national competition / edited by Tom Goss ; art directed by Andrew Kner ; designed by Thomas Guarnieri.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : RC Publications, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW 90-9326Offsite
  • Business cards : dynamic graphic design.

    • Text
    • Glen Cove, NY : Graphic Details ; New York, NY : Distributor to the book trade in the U.S.A. and Canada, Rizzoli International Publications, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBF 93-772Offsite
  • Cameo cards & Bella C. Landauer : a monograph of the Ephemera Society of America.

    • Text
    • Schoharie, N.Y. : Ephemera Society of America, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MDZ 96-406 Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • A l'image Ste. Genevieve, ruë de Bussy, près le petit marché. Louvet, marchand, vend toutes sortes de papier battu ...

    • Text
    • A Paris : [Louvet], 1508 [i.e. 1708]
    • 1708
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Schlosser 941Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • Der künstlerische Tanz.

    • Text
    • Dresden : Eckstein-Halpaus, [1933]
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text (S) *MGTI-Res.+ 76-1120Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Die Tanzbühnen der Welt.

    • Text
    • Dresden : Eckstein-Halpaus, [1933?]
    • 1933
  • Signs and outdoor advertising.

    • Text
    • London, World's Press News Pub. Co.
    • 196-1962
    • 25 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TWA (Signs and outdoor advertising) Library has: Vol. 4 (Oct. 1930)-v. 19 (Mar. 1946); [n.s.] v. 1 (June 1946)-v. 16 (June 1962) (incomplete) Library has: Vol. 16, no. 9-v. 18, no. 5 bound with Display. v. 14 (Oct. 1940-Sep. 1941)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TWA (Signs and outdoor advertising) Library has: Vol. 4 (Oct. 1930)-v. 19 (Mar. 1946); [n.s.] v. 1 (June 1946)-v. 16 (June 1962) (incomplete) Library has: Vol. 16, no. 9-v. 18, no. 5 bound with Display. v. 15-16 (Oct. 1941-May 1943)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TWA (Signs and outdoor advertising) Library has: Vol. 4 (Oct. 1930)-v. 19 (Mar. 1946); [n.s.] v. 1 (June 1946)-v. 16 (June 1962) (incomplete) Library has: Vol. 16, no. 9-v. 18, no. 5 bound with Display. v. 18-19 (Apr. 1945-Mar. 1946)Offsite
  • Collecting cigarette cards and other trade issues / Dorothy Bagnall.

    • Text
    • London : Arco Publications, 1965.
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW (Bagnall, D. Collecting cigarette cards)Offsite
  • The American card catalog : a comprehensive listing, with values, of what is known in American cards; designed to assist in their classification and to facilitate their sale and exchange among collectors and dealers.

    • Text
    • Syracuse, N.Y. : J.R. Burdick, [1946?]
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 96-121Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • The catalogue of international cigarette cards / compiled by the London Cigarette Card Company.

    • Text
    • Exeter, England : Webb & Bower, c1982
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 96-180Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Catalogue of cigarette and other trade cards / E.V. Potter.

    • Text
    • Kingston-upon-Thames : E.V. Potter, [1981?]
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 96-373Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Catalogue of cigarette & other trade cards / compiled & published by Murray Cards (International) Ltd.

    • Text
    • London : Murray Cards, 1981
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 96-374Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Collecting cigarette & trade cards, with price guide / [by C.W. Hill].

    • Text
    • Southampton : Southern Collectors Publications, c1979
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 96-396Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Vice art : an anthology of London's prostitute cards / [by] Patrick Jewell.

    • Text
    • Harrogate : Broadwater House, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 9-NAZ 97-13169Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The signboards of old London shops : a review of the shop signs employed by the London tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries : compiled from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads / by Ambrose Heal ; illustrated with upwards of 400 collotypes.

    • Text
    • London : B.T. Batsford, 1947
    • 1947
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents 96-454Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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    Text MLT (Heal, A. Signboards of old London shops)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Cigarette cards and novelties / Frank Doggett.

    • Text
    • London : Michael Joseph, 1981
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 97-159Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Cigarette card values : 1985 catalogue of cigarette and other trade cards / compiled and published by Murray Cards (International) Ltd.

    • Text
    • London : Murray Cards, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 97-361Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Some terpsichorean tradecards from the Bella C. Landauer collection at the New York historical society.

    • Text
    • [New York?] c1940
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWET+++ [RBS] 97-1472 (New York Historical Society. Some terpsichorean tradecards)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Practical compendium of commercial pen lettering & designs. A complete instructor in the use of the marking, shading, plain, special, border and shadow lettering pens. Also alphabetical list of advertising phrases suitable for show cards, posters, etc.

    • Text
    • Pontiac, Mich., The Newton Automatic Lettering Pen Co. [c1918]
    • 1918
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *IC (Newton Automatic Lettering Pen Co., Pontiac, Mich. Practical compendium of commercial pen lettering)Offsite
  • Listing of English language Liebigs.

    • Text
    • [London : E.C. Wharton-Tigar, 1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Arents Ref. 98-62Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Collecting cigarette cards and other trade issues.

    • Text
    • London, Arco Publications [c1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW (Bagnall, D. Collecting cigarette cards and other trade issues)SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Take it from here.

    • Text
    • Chicago, F.J. Drake [c1957]
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MDW (Duvall, E. J. Take it from here)Offsite
  • Principles and practice of show-card writing, prepared in the Extension divison of the University of Wisconsin, by Lawrence E. Blair ...

    • Text
    • New York, [etc.] McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1922.
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MLW (Blair, L. E. Principles and practice of show-card writing)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Faust's complete card-writer; lessons and alphabets for use of brushes-marking-Soennecken-Payzant and common pens. Air-brushes and relief-pencils.

    • Text
    • [Chicago, Author, 1911]
    • 1911
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 3-MLW (Faust, C. A. Faust's complete card-writer)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Showcard lay-out and design, by Edgar Bond.

    • Text
    • London, Blandford press ltd., 1937.
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLT (Bond, E. Showcard lay-out and design)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Instructions on modern show card writing; practical instructions on show card writing with the brush and pen - covering all the modern methods in the elementary rudiments of this art - with appropriate illustrations and modern show card alphabets. Valuable suggestions on the care of brushes, preliminary preparation and many other valuable hints.

    • Text
    • New York city, The J.G. Bissell Co., c1913.
    • 1913
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Bissell, J. G. Instructions on modern show card writing)Offsite
  • Principles and practice of show-card writing, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Lawrence E. Blair.

    • Text
    • New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937.
    • 1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Blair, L. E. Principles and practice of show-card writing)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Commercial art of show card lettering [by] James Eisenberg ...

    • Text
    • New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. [1946]
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Eisenberg, J. Commercial art of show card lettering)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • New Standard letterer and show-card writer, by Maxwell L. Heller ...

    • Text
    • London, Library Press, Ltd. [1926]
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Heller, M. L. New Standard letterer and show-card writer)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • How to paint signs and sho' cards, by E. C. Matthews. Revised and combined with the Coast to coast book of lettering and design. A complete course of self-instruction containing 100 alphabets and designs.

    • Text
    • New York, J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, c1924.
    • 1924
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Matthews, E. C. How to paint signs and sho' cards)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The art of show card writing; a modern treatise covering all branches of the art ... with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations and thirty-two lettering plates, comprising all the standard ancient and modern styles, by Lawrence J. Strong ... and Charles J. Strong.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Frederick J. Drake & company [c1922]
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
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    Text MLW (Strong, C. J. Art of show card writing)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • How to paint flowers, scrolls and fancy borders for up-to-date show cards, posters, display signs and decorating.

    • Text
    • Pontiac, Mich., The author [c1915]
    • 1915
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Thompson, W. A. How to paint flowers)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • "A show at" sho' cards; complete, concise.

    • Text
    • Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co. [c1918]
    • 1918
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLW (Atkinson, F. H. "A show at" sho' cards)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • 120 [i.e. Honderd en twintig] reclame ideeën voor reclame tekenaars en etaleurs in alle branches.

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    • Alkmaar, Arti [1951]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MDW+ (Meyer, M. 120 [i.e. Honderd en twintig] reclame ideeen voor reclame tekenaars en etaleurs in alle branches)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The London goldsmiths, 1200-1800; a record of the names and addresses of the craftsmen, their shop signs and trade-cards, compiled by Sir Ambrose Heal, F. S. A., from the records of the Goldsmiths' company and other contemporary sources; published under the patronage of the Worshipful company of goldsmiths of London.

    • Text
    • Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1935.
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MNO+ (Heal, A. London goldsmiths)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Simplified show card writing, by C. R. Havighorst.

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    • New York, N.Y., The Butterick company, inc. [c1942]
    • 1942
    • 1 Item
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    Text MLW+ (Havighorst, C. R. Simplified show card writing)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Ticket and show card designing, by F. Arthur Pearson.

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    • London, New York [etc.] Sir I. Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MLW (Pearson, F. A. Ticket and show card designing)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The show card writer.

    • Text
    • Wilmette Ill., F. J. Drake [1950]
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text MDW (Duvall, E. J. Show card writer)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Les menus & programmes illustrés; invitations--billets de faire part--cartes d'adresse--petites estampes du XVIIe siècle jusqu'à nos jours. Ouvrage orné de quatre cent soixante reproductions d'après les documents originaux des meilleurs artistes.

    • Text
    • Paris, G. Boudet [etc.] 1898.
    • 1898
    • 2 Items
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    Text MDW+ (Maillard, L. Menus & programmes illustres) v. 1Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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