collecting cards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards issued singly or in sets since the 19th century, primarily to be collected, bearing a wide variety of types of images, such as sports figures, movie stars, or flowers. If cards include advertising, use also "advertising cards"; if cards accompany a product, use also "premiums." For cards bearing tradesmen's advertisements, and sometimes a variety of images, produced from the 17th through the 19th century, use also "trade cards."
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
ESCO Boxing Exhibit Cards Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP10093
Scope and Contents
This collection includes more than 300 exhibit cards featuring images of boxers. Cards are the size of postcards. The fronts of most cards contain an image of a boxer with his name and sometimes other information like hometown, nicknames, etc. The backs of cards from the 1920s often contain short bios and/or selected match results, and many have a postcard back for mailing. Some of the cards from the 1920s are tinted in different colors. Many cards, especially those printed after 1928,...
Dates:
1921-1960s