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Title: Auguste and André Desmoulins Trade Card
Description: Trade card for André and Auguste Desmoulins. The woodcut depicts busy dockyard scene. On the back it lists André as a printer and Auguste as an engraver. Opening times and location of their business are also listed.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_002

Title: Book Announcement Advertisement
Description: Advertisement for a book sold in the Bordelais bookstore, Librairie Pallandre.
Type: text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_3181

Title: Camille Bloch, libraire-éditeur Trade Card
Description: A trade card for Camille Bloch. At head is the phrase "On peut désormais téléphoner à Camille Bloch" (translation: "We can now call Camille Bloch"). The image depicts a man at desk on the telephone, surrounded by books with a light shining on him.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_179

Title: Ch. Hessele Trade Card
Description: A trade card for Charles Hessele by Francis Jourdain. His address 13 Rue Laffitte is given along with a hen and a cockerell. Hessele was a print dealer in Paris. He specialized in modern prints and was active between 1901 and 1914.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2670

Title: Charles Hessele Trade Card
Description: A trade card for Charles Hessele. His address 13 Rue Laffitte is written on the card which depicts a quiet countryside scene, with a river, boats and houses along the riverbank. Hessele was a print dealer in Paris. He specialized in modern prints and was active between 1901 and 1914.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2668

Title: David Cercles Trade Card, Two of Diamonds
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_019

Title: David Cercles Trade Card, Two of Spades
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_021

Title: Dervois Trade Card
Description: Advertisement for Dervois's printing business. At the top of the written advertisement is an illustration of Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg was the German printer and publisher who introduced printing to Europe in the fifteenth century.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_012

Title: Desmoulins Trade Card
Description: Trade card for André and Auguste Desmoulins. The lithograph, by Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916) depicts a black and white scene of trees and hills in the foreground and a city in the background. On the back it lists André as a printer and Auguste as an engraver. Opening times and location of their business are also listed.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2659

Title: Edmund Sagot Editeur D'Estampes
Description: Etching for Edmund Sagot depicting a city-river scene with boats on the water and people along the riverbank. Sagot is listed as 'Editeur D'Estampes' - editor of prints with his business located at Rue de Chateaudun.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2691

Title: Edmund Sagot Editeur Trade Card
Description: Etching for Edmund Sagot depicting a woman and small child looking at prints, with his business location listed at Rue de Chateaudun.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_006

Title: Edmund Sagot Estampes Moderne
Description: Color lithograph for Edmund Sagot depicting a man and woman sitting down in an office looking through drawings. Inscribed in white to the left are business details for Sagot. The artist of the piece was Alexandre Lunois (1863-1916).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2692i

Title: Edmund Sagot Trade Card
Description: Etching for the trade card depicts a woman on stage in front of a large audience of men and women. Edmund Sagot opened a Paris bookshop in 1881, dealing in rare and contemporary prints. He was the first art dealer to add illustrated posters to his inventory. To advertise the printmakers whose work he published, he would commission posters and mailers by his artists. Artist for the card was Eugène Delâtre (1864-1938).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2687

Title: Edmund Sagot Trade Card Print
Description: Print for a business card for Edmund Sagot depicting a woman sitting down working with a table in front of her.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2692

Title: Edmund Sagot Trade Card by Gaston de Latenay
Description: Etching for Edmund Sagot depicting a country lane with trees in the distance and two busts located to the left and right of the card. His business is located at Rue de Chateaudun. The artist is Gaston de Latenay (1859-1943).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_004

Title: Edmund Sagot Trade Card, Paris, 1913
Description: Etching for Edmund Sagot depicting an artist painting at an easel with two adults, a child and a donkey in the background.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_005

Title: Edmund Sagot, Paris: Trade Card
Description: A trade card etched in blue-green and brown ink. The card depicts a pool surrounded by columns and trees. Edmund Sagot opened a Paris bookshop in 1881, dealing in rare and contemporary prints. He was the first art dealer to add illustrated posters to his inventory. To advertise the printmakers whose work he published, he would commission posters and mailers by his artists.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2683

Title: Eugène Delâtre Artistic Printing & Etching House Trade Card
Description: Etching for Eugène Delâtre's printing house located on Rue Lepic in Paris. The etching depicts a woman in formal dress and hat walking with a windmill and buildings in the background. Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_003

Title: Eugène Delâtre Artistic Printing House Trade Card
Description: Etching for Eugène Delâtre's printing house located on Rue Lepic in Paris. The etching depicts a hand with a pencil in sketching a street scene with houses and a group of people surrounding an easel. Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2698

Title: Eugène Delâtre Printing House Trade Card
Description: Etching for Eugène Delâtre's printing house located on Rue Lepic in Paris. The etching depicts a formal garden scene with trees surrounding two women at the foot of some steps. Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2671

Title: Eugène Delâtre Trade Card
Description: Trade card for Eugène Delâtre premises on Rue Lepic, Paris. Etching depicts two women and children outside a house, with one of the women crouching on the ground. Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2695

Title: Eugène Delâtre Trade Card by Jacques Beurdeley
Description: Etching for Eugène Delâtre's printing house located on Rue Lepic in Paris by artist Jacques Beurdeley (1874-1954). The etching depicts a well. Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2651

Title: Eugène Delâtre, Rue Lepic, Trade Card
Description: Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist. This card advertises his business on Rue Lepic in Paris. The etching depicts a set of stone steps with buildings to the right and in the background with a fence to the left of the image.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_3373

Title: F. Marichy Trade Card
Description: Trade card for F. Marichy's curiosities and objet d'art business located at 9, Avenue Rachel in Paris. Depicted on the card are a variety of different items and objects, including a suit of armor, a clown who has an alligator on his arm, a harp, some skeletons and a black cat. The artist for the card is Adolphe Willette (1857-1926).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), electrotyping (platemaking)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2716

Title: Feindel Dentiste Business Card
Description: Lithograph announcement business card of the dentist Feindel of Paris, printed by F. Appel of Paris. The artist for the piece is Adolphe Willette (1857-1926).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2713

Title: Greeting Card for Léon Prevost
Description: Le Vieux Papier' ('Old Paper') was a "Society for the Study of everyday life through the documents and iconography" and was founded in 1900. Léon Provost was at one time the secretary of the society and this card lists his business address as Rue de Bourgogne, Paris. The theme is playing cards, depicting people gathered around a table playing cards.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_015

Title: Greinheiser: Graveur, Imprimeur, Lithographe. 21, rue de la Banque Trade Card
Description: Trade card for Greinheiser, an engraver, printer and lithographer. The engraving depicts a shield flanked by busts of Apollo and Mercury and symbols of art, commerce, and industry. Under the shield is quoted "Paris: commerce, industrie, beaux arts".
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), engraving (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_178

Title: H. P. Dillon Trade Card
Description: Trade card for Henri-Patrice Dillon who was an artist, painter and lithographer. He produced calling cards, menus, greeting cards, illustrations for programs, sheet music, books, magazines and posters. This lithograph depicts a woman holding her face with her hands, with his name and the address of his business to the right of the illustration.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2662

Title: Helot 'Master Surgeon' Trade Card
Description: Print for business card for Helot who is listed as a 'master surgeon'. Referenced in the advertisement are Saints Cosmas and Damian; they were reputed to be twins and physicians. Two men are featured in the illusrtation for the card with two men looking up at them.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_011

Title: J. Roques "Le Courrier Français" Trade Card
Description: Le Courrier Français, founded and edited by Jules Roques, was a satirical French illustrated weekly with sections on literature, fine arts, theater, medicine and finance. It ran from 1884 to 1914. This sketch depicts a man and woman holding a card with Roque's name and "Directeur du Courrier Français" written on it. The woman has a military coat draped over her shoulders and the man holds a top hat in his left hand with ribbons flowing from it which are the colors of the French flag. The artist for the card is Adolphe Willette (1857-1926).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2717

Title: Louis Redon Trade Card, Ace of Diamonds
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_020

Title: Louis Redon Trade Card, Three of Hearts
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_016

Title: Louis Redon, Du Vieux-Papier Trade Card
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_018

Title: Léon Prevost Greeting Card
Description: Le Vieux Papier' ('Old Paper') was a "Society for the Study of everyday life through the documents and iconography" and was founded in 1900. Léon Provost was at one time the secretary of the society and this card lists his business address as Rue de Bourgogne, Paris. The theme is playing cards with people dressed as 'hearts' from the suit of cards.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_014

Title: Léon Prevost Trade Card
Description: Le Vieux Papier' ('Old Paper') was a "Society for the Study of everyday life through the documents and iconography" and was founded in 1900. Léon Provost was at one time the secretary of the society and this card lists his business address as Rue de Bourgogne, Paris. The card depicts a man, seated in a library and reading an issue of Le Vieux Papier with a dog at his side.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_013

Title: Maurice Le Garrec Business Card
Description: A trade card for Maurice Le Garrec. At the bottom of the card it states that Le Garrec was the successor to Ed. Sagot, publisher. The image depicts a town landscape with a buidlings on either side of a stone bridge.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_007

Title: Maurice Le Garrec Editeur D'Estampes
Description: A trade card for Maurice Le Garrec, stating he is the successor to Ed. Sagot and was now known as 'Editeur D'Estampes' (print publisher). The image depicts an adult and child in the foreground with buidlings and a windmill in the background.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_008

Title: Maurice Le Garrec Trade Card
Description: A trade card for Maurice Le Garrec and at the bottom of the card it states that Le Garrec was the successor to Ed. Sagot, publisher. The etching depicts a North African woman wearing a head scarf and carrying a basket on her head. Henri Vergé-Sarrat, the artist apparently visited Morocco around 1923.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_186

Title: Maurice Le Garrec, Rue de Chateaudun Trade Card
Description: A trade card for Maurice Le Garrec and at the bottom of the card it states that Le Garrec was the successor to Ed. Sagot, publisher. The image depicts a girl driving a cow to pasture in rural landscape with figures working in field and a cottage to the left of the scene. It is signed in plate by the artist: “J. Frelaut, 1921”.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), drypoint (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_182

Title: Octave Uzanne New Year Greeting Card
Description: A new year greeting card expressing good wishes for 1896 from Octave Uzanne. The etching depcits a woman in the foreground wearing a cape and bonnet with flowers to her right and a city in the background. The new years greeting is written on the back of a book with a cherub holding the book up and a dragonfly underneath the book. The etching is by artist Massé.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2709

Title: Print advertising Phillipe Sichel Business on Rue Pigalle
Description: Print on tracing paper for business of Philippe Sichel. Depcits art supplies with paint brushes in a jar that has Japanese symbols on and plants to the right hand side of the advertisement.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_001

Title: Sichel, Rue Pigalle Trade Card
Description: The trade card for Philippe Sichel depcits a Japanese vase with flowering cherry branch and fan with two characters of Japanese to the left. Sichel specialized in the Japonism craze that swept Paris during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), drypoint (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_3452

Title: Trade Card for Auguste Delâtre
Description: Auguste Delâtre was a French etcher and painter. This etching advertises his artistic printing trade and depicts windmills amongst trees on a hillside with a city in the background. Delâtre bought a press from his teachers, Charles Jacque and Louis Marvy in 1848 and set up his own workshop as an artist's printer.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2694

Title: Trade Card for Auguste and André Desmoulins
Description: Trade card for André and Auguste Desmoulins. Lithograph depicts two women and a man seated around a table. The man is reading a book. On the back it lists Andre as a printer and Auguste as an engraver. It lists opening times and location of their business.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2676

Title: Trade Card for Charles Gautier
Description: Print of a trade card for Charles Gautier depicting four cats surrounding a low wall listing the business address.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_010

Title: Trade Card for Charles Hériot, Framer
Description: An imprint of a lithograph advertising Charles Heriot's framing business located on Rue de Delta. It depicts a woman and young girl holding hands through a frame with another child holding the frame up. There is a windmill in the background and a tradesman to the left of the frame. The artist was Adolphe Willette (1857-1926).
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2714

Title: Trade Card for Eugène Delâtre
Description: Eugène Delâtre was a printer as well as an artist and this trade card advertises his printing business on Rue Lepic in Paris. The etching by French artist Léon Carre (1878-1942)́ depicts a horse and carriage with a gentleman standing in top hat and tails on the sidewalk.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_2696

Title: Trade Card for Louis Redon
Description: Trade card in the style of a deck of cards for Louis Redon.
Type: text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_017

Title: Trade Card for Maurice Le Garrec
Description: A trade card for Maurice Le Garrec. At the bottom of the card it states that Le Garrec was the successor to Ed. Sagot, publisher. The image depicts a countryside scene with people working in the field in the foreground, cottages in the background with water and boats to the left of the card.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising), etching (printing process)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_3374

Title: Trade Card for Stern, Engraver and Printer
Description: A trade card for Stern, printers and engravers located at 47 Passage Panoramas in Paris. The company was founded in 1830 and the engraving depicts a woman leaning against a column. She is holding a piece of paper in her right hand that has 'gravure heraldique' ('heraldic engraving') written on it. There is a scroll and a family crest with medival helmet armour on top of the crest.
Type: still image, text
Genre: trade cards (advertising)
Local Identifier: gc_fba_3012

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