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Graphic arts > Advertising cards

Preferred term

Advertising cards  

Definition

  • Cards distributed by merchants or manufacturers to advertise or promote their business or product, sometimes as premiums; small cards produced since the 19th c. bearing the name and address of a business concern and one of its representatives, and intended more for information than advertisement; small printed sheets, and later cards, bearing tradesmen's advertisements, often including an engraved illustration, 17th-19th cs.; cards containing advertisements displayed in store windows [AAT, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Business cards
  • Cards, advertising
  • Cards, show
  • Cards, trade
  • Cards, tradesmen's
  • Cards, window
  • Show cards
  • Show-cards
  • Showcards
  • Trade cards
  • Tradesmen's cards
  • Window cards

Notation

  • 113956

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-BMTHXWG6-1

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