Series III: Publications

This subseries includes Landauer's copies of four articles authored by her, mainly for the New-York Historical Society Quarterly. Offprints of the articles, or copies removed from the journal, have been bound into folders along with her original manuscript or typescript for the article. Landauer co-authored an article with Harry B. Weiss, and the entire issue of The Sportsmen's Pilot, where it appeared, can be found here. Two printed copies of "Jumbo's Influence on Advertising or Some Jumbo Trade Cards" are bound in with Landauer's manuscript of the article, along with multiple photostat copies of the illustrations. A hand-annotated typescript of Landauer's autobiographical talk, "Collecting and Recollecting," follows an offprint and a manuscript version of the piece.

The subseries includes eighteen of Landauer's published works. These works often highlight particular aspects of ephemera found in her collections, such as Early American Trade Cards. Others focus on more general subjects, such as The Influence of Shakespeare on Advertising. Illustrations for all of these publications are drawn from Landauer's collections and are printed in black and white. Almost all have handwritten additions or hand corrections to typographical mistakes. Two of these works, which are both variations on Some American Billheads, are in an extremely large format, probably so as to reproduce the billheads at their original size. Some Terpsichorean Ephemera has a color frontispiece, a letter pasted in, and additional handwritten notes. Early American Trade Cards from the Collection of Bella C. Landauer includes a foldout color frontispiece. This volume was printed in an edition of 500 and is considered to be rare. It is annotated with New-York Historical Society's negative numbers of several of the tradecards reproduced, as well as their location in Landauer's collection (some of these were "framed on wall.") Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman includes letters to Landauer by fans of Whitman laid in, as well as an engraving of Whitman from an issue of Harper's. Bookplates from the Aeronautica Collection of Bella C. Landauer has other, actual, bookplates pasted in. Chalking the Hat is about railroad passes with some illustrations. Some Ephemeral Portraits of Lincoln and Franklin is extra-illustrated with cartes-de-visite portraits of Lincoln, a French stamp with an image of Franklin, and has correspondence laid in. Upward not Downward! contains ephemera showing 'Cleopatra's Needle,' the Egyptian obelisk in Central Park. Gilbert and Sullivan Influence on American Tradecards is the most extra-illustrated monograph found here. It has numerous bubble gum cards, trade cards, advertisements, and clippings pasted in. The volume also includes two pamphlets containing the dialogue from "H.M.S. Pinafore," one from an 1879 edition of Louis Klopsch's Complete and Unabridged Miniature Librettos.

The ten Compilations are quite similar to the monographs, but were not published in the same manner, as the onset of World War II diverted the necessary resources. While these have title pages and illustrations, the illustrations are photostats which are often pasted into the compilations, rather than being commercially bound. Catalog records describe them as "photostat copies of facsimiles." Most of these items have titles such as "[Type of ephemera] in the Bella C. Landauer collection," and were meant to specifically highlight her collection. Landauer distributed many of these compilations to institutions (the New York Public Library, for example, has many of them) and interested individuals (usually collectors.) Most of the compilations found in this collection are extra-illustrated with original ephemera by Landauer. Some Embossed American Tradecards includes a 9 x 11.5 inch gold embossed trade card on coated stock for Crandall and Higgins, piano dealers in Davenport, Iowa. It also includes a hand-written list of "additions" to the collection after the printing of the book. Trivial Washingtoniana is extra-illustrated with (among other things) three colored ribbons with Washington's portrait printed by Mogul Cigarettes.