BIBFRAME Work

Title

U.S. Patent Office advertising prints and labels collection

Type

• Still Image
• Collection

Contribution

• United States. Patent Office (collector)

Subject

• United States. Patent Office--Associated objects--1870-1940.
• Patents--1870-1940 (LCTGM)
• Labels--1870-1940 (GMGPC)
• Photographic prints--1870-1940 (GMGPC)
• Letterpress works--1870-1940 (GMGPC)
• Chromolithographs--1870-1940 (GMGPC)
• Advertising--1870-1940 (LCTGM)
• Photomechanical prints--1870-1940 (GMGPC)

Genre Form

• graphic

Language

• eng

Classification

LCC: Guide Record (Filing series: USPO) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• still image

Summary

The collection consists of American (and a small quantity of international) commercial prints and labels spanning from 1874 through 1940. This collection documents advertising and commercial aesthetics and products from the period, including packaging, flyers, wallpaper friezes, ephemera, newspaper advertisements, bread wrappers, promotional calendars, cigarette cards, and cardboard cut-outs. The volumes contain approximately 73,000 prints and labels with associated information from the Patent Office Gazette such as the company name, registration number, and year.

Authorized Access Point

United States. Patent Office. U.S. Patent Office advertising prints and labels collection

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T18:45:25.467962+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 16592238

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc