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Includes two foldout fans from Vineland Restaurant in Ulster Park, NY, that appear to date from circa 1950s-60s.

Includes U.S. and international locations.

Includes all locations, including New York City.

Includes two cards which appear to date from the late 1800s-early 1900s: Thomas F. Duffy, dealer at 750 Greenwich St, New York City, and Siegel's Extra Dry Champagne at Broadway & Warren Street, New York City. The latter includes reference to a station of the underground rapid transit, or pneumatic tunnel, as an advertising point.

Includes farms, bakeries (see also Bakers folder in box 2), coffee and tea shops, food stores/grocers, delicatessens, agricultural implements, fish markets, butchers, caterers, dairies, event planners, importers, etc. Some cards appear to date from the late 1800s or early 1900s.

Some cards appear to date from the late 1800s or early 1900s. See also Food folder in box 1.

Also includes shops specializing in prints and drawings.

Primarily includes art museums, but also includes other types of museums/collecting repositories, such as presidential libraries, historical collections/societies, special collection/manuscript libraries, botanical gardens, science centers, historic sites. Includes museum shops.

Also includes decorative arts, collectibles, restoration services, auction houses.

Also includes collectibles such as stamps, posters, prints, baseball cards.

Some appear to date from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Includes musicians, instruments, music stores, record stores and companies, electronics, music teachers, dance, film, broadcasting/TV and radio, performance venues. Several appear to date from the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Also includes garden shops/centers, nurseries, landscapers/landscape architects, lawn care, tree care/removal, horticulturalists.

Includes gift shops, decorative arts/galleries, crafts, pottery, interior design, furniture, rugs/carpets, housewares/accessories, tableware, kitchen appliances, gift baskets. Includes some that appear to be from the late 1800s.

Includes a circa 1883 card from Reynolds & Barnes of Jordan, NY, that represents the "old lady who lived in a shoe" that opens to reveal all her children.

Includes designers, upholsterers, repairs/restoration, woodworking, frames, decorative arts, cabinets, bird and other animal carvings.

Includes several cards that appear to date from the late 1800s, including an oversize card for Bloomingdale Bros., New York City, in the shape of an artist's palette, listing the store's departments on the back.

Includes one object: a clothes pin advertising The French Laundry (location not identified, but likely northern California based on the area code of the phone number on the pin).

Includes a late 1800s card advertising the invention Actina to cure catarrh (eye cataracts). Includes a blank certificate acknowledging benefactors of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn, NY (early 20th century?)

Includes governmental agencies/departments, social services, activist groups, trade associations, charitable organizations, think tanks, medical research, advocacy groups. Includes international and U.S. government, corporate, and non-profit organizations.

Includes journalists, newspapers/press, print shops/printing/printmaking, frames, magazine/book publishing, stationery.

Includes phones, computer technology, data processing, marketing, logistics, business/product development, public affairs, international trade, etc.

Includes accounting, animals (veterinarians, training, rescue, pets), architects, attorneys, balloons, baskets (several late 1800s items), candles, candy (chocolate, ice cream, nuts, gelato, confectioners. Several late 1800s items).

Includes cleaners (dry cleaning, clothes, house), cosmetics/beauty aids (soaps, perfume, skin care, beauty salons, tanning), fibers (textiles, quilts, weaving, rugs, carpets, yarn, needlework, knits, farms/wool, sewing, fabrics. Some late 1800s items).

Includes glass, hair (barbers, wigs, hair studios/stylists, salons), hats/milliners, home repair (hardware, painting/wallpaper, plumbing, roofers, tuck pointing and whitening, home appliance repairs, tiling, flooring, locksmiths, fencing, design, masonry, heating/air conditioning).

Includes insurance (including financial services, banking, loans), leather, lighting, mail (shipping), metal work (silversmith, blacksmith/foundry/forge, brass, copper), pens/paper, quilts, realty/realtors/real estate.

Includes sex (phone sex, topless bars, clubs), shoes (includes some cards that appear to date from the late 1800s), sports (billiards, fishing, sports centers/clubs, dancing, country clubs, massage, yoga, golf, physical therapy, spas, gyms/fitness, horseback riding), stamps (rubber stamps and stamping, not collectibles), tattoos.

Includes toys (dollhouses, chess, collectibles, dolls, trains) and universities/colleges/schools. Miscellaneous cards include, among other things, security/locksmiths, translators, magicians/mentalists, coins, cemeteries, religious institutions, psychics, various specialty products and services.

Includes car dealers, limo services, taxis, car/automobile repairs, airlines, rental cars, travel agents, tour/hiking guides, towing, shipping/moving/deliveries.

Includes cards with unidentifiable business purposes or context.

Includes business cards, trade cards, ten cartes-de-visite, and a cabinet card from New York City businesses, all appearing to date from the late 1800s-early 1900s.

Includes cards that range across many of the subject areas of the collection, both U.S. and international. Acquired primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, a large number appear to date from the late 1800s to early 1900s.