cigarette cards
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Cards containing pictures of birds, baseball players, celebrities, or other popular culture subjects packaged by manufacturers of cigarettes with their product during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
August G. Blume World War I Eastern Front Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-07-25
Overview
August G. Blume (1927-1993) was an author and historian focused on the Eastern Theater of World War I. This collection consists of his writing, correspondence but most notably a large number of photographic images of the Eastern Front during World War I that Blume attained during his research. The materials span the early 1900s to 2000.
Dates:
1894-2008
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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