Advertising
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising cards and ephemera collection
Collection — Folder S3117
Identifier: S3117
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, calling cards, a postcard, and pamphlets from various businesse enterprises and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York, New York, ranging from circa 1860 to 1935 regarding products such as tonics and curatives, soap, coffee, and tickets to fairs and sporting, club, and public speaking events. Many of the cards appear to have been removed from a scrapbook.
Dates:
circa 1860-1935
Advertising cards collection
Collection — Folder S3144
Identifier: S3144
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, brochures and other ephemeral items from merchants and event planners in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan and Missouri, ranging from 1887 to 1976 regarding advertising for products and services as well as special events.
Dates:
1887-1976, undated
American Lung Association of Central Indiana collection
Collection
Identifier: L627
Scope and Contents
This collection contains organizational records including administrative records, financial information, correspondence, reports, statistical data and maps, broadsides, pamphlets and periodicals, scrapbooks, photographs, and audiovisual materials from the American Lung Association of Central Indiana and its primary predecessor, the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1903 to 1977 regarding the organizations' activities in the eradication of tuberculosis...
Dates:
1903-1977
Baur Carbonic Company collection
Collection — Folder S0075
Identifier: S0075
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a postcard sized ink blotter, with the following text on it. Baur Red Top CO2 – Best Gas – "Made in Indianapolis" – Backed Up by Over 30 Years Experience – Comes in Red Top Drums – Made By – The Baur Carbonic Company, Standard Avenue and Division Street, Indianapolis, IND. The picture of a girl with curly hair and flowers appears on the side with text. The dates 1921-1927 have been added in ink at the top.
Dates:
1921-1927
Commemorative wooden nickels and Confederate bill facsimile
Collection — Folder S2228
Identifier: S2228
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three "wooden nickel" certificates created to commemorate the Wabash County, Indiana Centennial (1935) and the Decatur, Indiana Centennial (1936). The collection also contains a facsimile of a five hundred dollar Confederate note memento from the Civil War Centennial Exhibit held at the L.S. Ayres & Company auditorium in Indianapolis from April 11 to April 22, 1961.
Dates:
1935-1961
Crown Potteries Company employee photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP045
Identifier: SP045
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photograph, small photograph album, and two copies of an advertisement from Crown Potteries Company in Evansville, Indiana and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky ranging from 1935 to 1952 regarding the company, its employees, and the city of Evansville. The single photograph shows a large group of men, women, and children, probably Crown Potteries Co. employees and their families, at the entrance sign for Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, around the 1930s. The album appears to be from...
Dates:
circa 1930s
H. G. Young advertising card
Collection — Folder S1789
Identifier: S1789
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one advertising card for H. G. Young’s business dealing in hides, tallow, pelts and furs. The card appears to be soliciting different materials for his business, which is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The card is from 1894 and is addressed to a Mr. John Markert (?) in Newton.
Dates:
1894
Hotel advertising cards
Collection — Folder S1548
Identifier: S1548
Scope and Contents
Three hotel advertising cards are mounted on cardboard, three-hole-punched page, of which there are eleven. All of the cards have drawings of the hotel which is advertised. Most of the cards are 2 1/2" high and 6" wide. The oldest one is 1894 (St. Nicholas Hotel, Decatur, Ill.) and the newest are 1917 (The Samer, Salina, Kansas, and The Lee-Huckins Hotel, Oklahoma City, Okla.). The three cards on the first page are: Union Hotel, Port Huron, Mich., November 19, 1903; Hotel Conner, Harpers...
Dates:
1894-1917
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hotel advertising cards
Jonas W. Yeo drag saw advertisement and manual
Collection — Folder S1377
Identifier: S1377
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an undated advertisement and a manual from Jonas W. Yeo in Richmond, Indiana for a "cross-cut drag saw."
Dates:
circa 1838-1879
Kosciusko County collection
Collection — Folder S1682-01
Identifier: S1682
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two items from Kosciusko County, Indiana, comprising a small advertising card for an attorney and land agent, James H. Carpenter, in Warsaw, Indiana and a two-page, typed letter from George A. Nye, a math teacher from Warsaw, Indiana to Christopher Coleman, the Indiana State Library director, circa 1917-1918, regarding the position offerred to Nye. The letter also lists the articles he wrote, mostly regarding Warsaw, in the preceding 25 years and makes mention of the...
Dates:
circa 1870s-1918
