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Title: "When the Flowers Bloom in Spring-time" "Molly Dear" [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Mariutch (Make-a the Hootch-a Ma Kootch) Down at Coney Isle. Sample of the sheet music for "When the Flowers Bloom in Spring-time" "Molly Dear."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0032

Title: 'Buy in Bronx' Drive Spurred by UNO Site
Description: Bronx Board of Trade and retail merchants want to promote shopping in the Bronx as the United Nations establishes its headquarters at Hunter College's uptown campus in the Bronx. In: Scrap Book. May 1943 - Aril 1949. (p. 48a)
Type: text
Genre: newspaper article
Local Identifier: buy_in_bronx_drive_spurred.jpg

Title: 149th St. & Courtlandt Ave.
Description: 149th St. from Courtlandt Ave. looking toward Third Ave. and the El. The Busher Building is on the left, and Hearns Department Store is beyond the Third Ave. El. Note also billboards.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: street_149th_courtlandt.jpg

Title: A Day At The Game
Description: Exterior view of Yankee Stadium as crowd leaves. Surface Transportation System buses are lined up for passengers. Also includes a large ad for Coca-Cola.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: recreation_sports_baseball_4.jpg

Title: A Thematic List of Popular Pieces [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brooklyn Glide Waltzes. Advertisement for other music such as, Angel's Kisses Nocturne, Chums Polka, Chums Waltz, Flight of the Swallows, etc. including sample verses, composer information and price.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0010

Title: And a Genuine Gold Plated Chain and Charm complete, $8.00 [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Lilly Lee. Business ads: Hayden & Glidden, G. Schlueter & Mendez, Wm. Gorden, Markham & Johnson, Olivier & Co., Gage's, James Sweet, Deverall's, P. Weigel & Son.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0003

Title: Arion Piano Forte [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brooklyn Life Waltzes. Ad, "Arion Piano Forte. Par excellence. The piano of the age. Elegance and excellence ... to be had at McDonald's old established Arion Piano Warerooms... Golden piano."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0004

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: Be Sure and Try These on Your Piano [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of March of the Veterans. Advertisement featuring sample sheet music in green, including the songs: Dream Whispers, Pictures of Fancy, Singing Birds and Pattering Rain. Text, "Complete copies available at all Music Stores."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0023

Title: Blasius, Albrecht and Regent Pianos and Piano Players [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brighton Beach March. Advertisement for Blasius & Sons, piano sellers. Featuring sheet music for, "Song to the Stars." Text, "Buy your piano direct from the manufacturer. Save all immediate profits - easy terms."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0031

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: Bronx Billboards
Description: Bronx Board of Trade billboard, at Fordham Rd. near Bathgate Ave., promoting Bronx manufacturing and homes. Also shown is a billboard advertising the Clason Point Park pool. A partially obscured advertisement for pianos is on the building to the left. (Theodore Roosevelt H.S. is today on this site.)
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Bronx_billboards_1.jpg

Title: Bronx General Hospital
Description: Bronx General Hospital (also known as Morrisania Hospital) showing sections under construction. Site is at 168th - 169th Sts., between Walton and Gerard Aves. The smoke stack is for the hospital's laundry room. The view is looking toward the West Bronx on the left. On the right, note billboard for Metro Goldwyn Mayer's epic production 'The Big Parade.'
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: hospital_bronx_morrisania_1.jpg

Title: Bronx Mobilization Of Business And Industry Week
Description: Bronx Board of Trade billboard, during the week of Oct. 3, 1933, promoting the return to prosperity and community advancement following the Great Depression.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Bronx_billboards_4.jpg

Title: Bronx Savings Bank
Description: Opening Day for the Bronx Savings Bank at 1735 University Ave. 7,305 individual accounts totaling $316,000 were deposited this day. Also shown are a 44th police precinct. car, local stores, and a billboard.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Bronx_savings_1.jpg

Title: Buy In The Bronx
Description: Bronx Board of Trade billboard promoting Bronx progress to 'Make the Bronx Grow.'
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Bronx_billboards_2.jpg

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: Correspondence regarding "Hall O' Fame" Whiskey
Description: Letter to Herman Weiss of the New York Times from attorney Ralph Folks regarding the use of the title "Hall O' Fame" in a liquor advertisement.
Type: text
Genre: correspondence
Local Identifier: bcc_hof_100

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: Dock St., Schenectady, New York [front caption] (1front) [e0091ac1]
Description: A couple stands on the cobblestone towpath beside the Erie Canal in Schenectady, New York. The "Dock Street" area depicted here appears to be of mixed-use. Presumably, a hotel and a brewery are visible in the background, while the couple stands next to a building with a distinctly residential feel. Some color is chipping off of the postcard on all four corners, but most damaged is the bottom left - where the largest portion of the brown paper backing is showing through.
Type: text, still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: e0091ac1.jpg

Title: Don't Tell Her That You Saw Me [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Second Battalion March. Advertisement featuring sample sheet music in dark pink, including the songs: Don't Tell Her That You Saw Me, Brush by Nigger, Brush by, I want a Real Coon and Cottonfield Dance.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0024

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: Flowers for all Occasions [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Thinking of You All the Time featuring ads for businesses in Brooklyn: Planson's Florist & Pet Shop, Jaques, Rugby Furniture, Beverly Meat Market, Rice Bowl Restaurant and The Hollywood Art Studio.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0048

Title: Fountain In Victory Garden Of Crotona Park
Description: View of park fountain behind Borough Hall. This fountain was originally in City Hall Park and was moved to the Bronx. Note the neighborhood apartment buildings, stores and advertising in the background.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Old_borough_hall_2.jpg

Title: Francis, Day & Hunter's Successful Dance Novelties [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Permans' Brooklyn Cake Walk. Advertisement for dances, including, New Dances, Valses, Quadrilles, Barn Dances, Lancers, Polkas, Schottisches, Galops and Post-Dances. Text, "Price Two Shillings Each, Nett."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0027

Title: Grand Concourse Completed Underpass
Description: Completed underpass and traverse road at the intersection of the Grand Concourse and Fordham Rd. Also showing billboard advertising, automobiles, and double decker bus.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: street_grandcourse_fordham_3.jpg

Title: Grand Concourse Underpass Under Construction
Description: Construction in progress for the underpass at the Grand Concourse and Fordham Rd. The traverse road appears completed. Also shows billboard advertising, a horse and wagon, automobiles, double decker buses, stores and apartment buildings with awnings.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: street_grandcourse_fordham_2.jpg

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

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