Tickets for “A Century of Progress: International Exposition Chicago”, 1933.

For those who could afford it, the Chicago World’s Fair offered an optimistic escape from the Great Depression. Even the tickets were printed in cheery colors.

In 2023 the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection found a home at the Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/?utm_source=Mastodon. Processing continues of over 26,000 trade cards, labels, tickets, and other ephemera.

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Li Cheong Hing, watercolor and postage stamp collage on postcard, Canton (Guangzhou), China, date unknown.

Sheaff collected about a dozen of Hing’s assemblages. They use stamp fragments from all over the world, including USA, China, Japan, Mexico, and UK. Let us know if you want to see more.

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Trautmann, Bailey, and Blampey (lithographers), trade card for Bortree Manufacturing Co., NY, ca. 1880.

In 2023 we announced that the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection had found a home at Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/?utm_source=Mastodon The work to process over 26,000 trade cards, visiting cards, labels, tickets, and other ephemera is ongoing. Here’s another peek.

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