New York Real Estate Brochure Collection

Columbia University

Apartment houses -- New York (State) -- New York

Buildings -- New York (State) -- New York

Architects -- New York (State) -- New York

Architecture -- History

Commercial real estate

Social history

Cities and towns -- Growth

The New York Real Estate Brochure Collection was donated to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. The collection consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor plans, price lists, and related materials that document residential and commercial real estate development in the five boroughs of New York and outlying vicinities from the 1920s to the 1970s

The online collection is browsable by architect, owner/agent, building name/address, and neighborhood. All buildings have been geo-coded and plotted to Google maps.

Columbia University

Avery Library

Yale Robbins, Inc.

Floor plans

Brochures

The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

New York Academy of Medicine

Pharmaceutical industry -- History

Pharmaceutical industry -- Marketing

Social history

The Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards comprises approximately 300 pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the US and France between 1875 and 1895. Colorful printed trade cards were used to advertise a wide range of goods in the nineteenth century; although introduced (in the mid-eighteenth century) as an ephemeral form of advertisement, they soon became collectors' items and were mass-produced in collectible 'series' comparable to those produced by sports teams in the twentieth century. They are now regarded as some of the best source material for the study of advertising, technology and trade in the post-Civil War period. The collection was donated to the Academy Library by Mr. Helfand

New York Academy of Medicine

Helfand, William H.

Trade cards

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Fulton Street Trade Card Collection

Brooklyn Public Library

Fulton Street (New York, N.Y.)

Small business marketing

Social history

Brooklyn daily eagle

The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare. The cards combine humor, bright and elegant graphic design and typography to promote a wide variety of wares and services. The Fulton Street trade cards are among the many collections held by the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, and the world's largest public archive for the study of Brooklyn's social and cultural history.

Brooklyn Public Library provides online access to Brooklyn's historic newspaper of record, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841-1902. Brooklyn's daily newspaper ran for 114 years, from 1841 to 1955. Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, the newspaper printed local, national and international news, keeping offices in Washington, London and Paris.

Many Fulton Street Trade Cards have links to related articles in the online repository.

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

2005-12-31

Trade cards

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