National Automotive History Collection
Finding aid for Transportation Trading Cards Collection
NAHC.79
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- National Automotive History Collection
- Title
- Transportation Trading Cards Collection
- ID
- NAHC.79
- Date [inclusive]
- circa 1930-1976
- Extent
- 0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
- Language
- English
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes 260 transportation trading cards, 12 automotive postcards, 1 picture card booklet, and 6 sets of cigarette cards.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
National Automotive History Collection
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisiton
NAHC00079
Transportation Trading Cards Collection, circa 1930-1976 (OCLC record)
[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/399647915]Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
- Brooke Bond Tea Company.
- Godfrey Phillips Ltd..
- Maxilin Marketing Company.
- Sweet Cigarettes (United Kingdom).
- Topps Company, Inc..
- Wills, John Player and Sons.
Genre(s)
- Cigarette cards
- Notes
- Pamphlets
- Postcards
- Printed ephemera
- Trade cards
Subject(s)
- Airplanes--Pictorial works
- Automobiles--Pictorial works
- Transportation--Pictorial works
- Vehicles, Military--Pictorial works
Collection Inventory
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Topps World on Wheels Trading Cards (31)1953 – 1955 Topps World on Wheels Trading Cards (31) 1953 – 1955 |
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Tip-Top is Better Bread (7) 1954 |
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Miscellaneous stickers (7—Buick, MC, ‘cuda, Cadillac, Volvo, Triumph) |
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Lightning Strikes and Johnny Lightning Cards (6) |
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Wills’s Cigarettes miniature trading cards—Military Motors. (50) 1916 |
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Player’s Cigarettes miniature trading cards, John Player and Sons—First series (50), Second series (50), 1936-1937 |
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Godfrey Phillips Ltd. cigarette miniature trading cards, “This Mechanized Age,”—First series (9). circa 1930 |
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Picture Card booklet “Brooke Bond Picture Cards: History of the Motor Car.” |
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12 Automotive postcards, some with written notes, some with descriptions of vehicle—concept and various other cars. |
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Johnny Lightning ,”Willy’s Gassers”—1930s-1940s hot rods, includes name of owner, cards came with die cast metal toy cars (19) |
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1976 Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. Cards (Toyota, Mercury, Alfa Romeo, Volvo, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz) (9) |
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Maxilin Marketing Co. Ltd. Miniature trading cards (24 of 25). Series includes Triumph, Morgan, Austin, Humber, Armstrong Siddeley, Standard, Allard, Woolsey, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Bristol. circa 1951 |
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Sweet Cigarettes, by Sweetule Products Ltd., Radcliffe, Manchester, England “Modern Transport” (5 of 25) This series includes 21-25, “Naval Aircraft.” |
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