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. Some may include advertising and thus also be a type of "advertising cards"; some may be included with a product and thus also be a type of "premiums."
Non-preferred terms: trading cards; cards, trading
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Terence R. Mitchell Collection of Aviation Trading Cards
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2015-12-01-A
Contents of the Collection
The Terence R. Mitchell Collection of Aviation Trading Cards is comprised of nearly 1,000 1910-1960s-era trading and cigarette cards, collected by Mitchell from the 1970s-2015. The cards are mainly from the United States, but some were produced in Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand. Images on the cards in this collection are primarily aviation-related and feature aircraft. Aircraft depicted range widely from early aviation to jets. Also included to a lesser degree are other forms of...
Dates:
1910s-1960s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rich Webb Boeing Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2020-03-03
Content Description
The Rich Webb Boeing Collection is a small collection of items related to Boeing Company open houses in 1990-1991. There is one bumper sticker in the collection for a 1990 Renton plant open house. From a 1991 Renton plant open house celebrating 75 years of Boeing history, there are admission tickets for both 10 a.m - 1:30 p.m and 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. time slots as well as a set of ten trading cards featuring historic Boeing aircraft and products, such as the B&W floatplane, the B-29...
Dates:
1990-1991
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives