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**Letterform Archive** @letterformarchive@typo.social · Feb 22

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive@typo.social

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.

Three tickets printed in red, blue, and yellow. The tickets advertise “Lagoon Watercraft”, “Lincoln Group”, and “Fort Dearborn”.

Zoomed detail of the first third of the second ticket showing Abraham Lincoln chopping a log.

Zoomed detail of the second third of the second ticket showing the title “Lincoln Group” in a slanted sans serif with a shadow.

Zoomed detail of the third third of the second ticket showing the perforation and stub with the title “Lincoln Group” and a price of 25 cents.

#RichardSheaffCollection #Ephemera #Tickets

**Letterform Archive** @letterformarchive@typo.social · Feb 21 *

Feb 21 *

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive@typo.social

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.

Card with a watercolor painted background of trees and landscape. In the foreground is a boy doing a handstand on a stool. The boy is made of cut postage stamps and rice paper.

Zoomed detail of the boy’s painted face, and torso made with a Chinese stamp.

Card with a watercolor painted background of trees and landscape. In the foreground is a boy carrying buckets over his shoulder. The boy is made of cut postage stamps and rice paper.

Zoomed detail of the boy’s painted face, and torso made with a British stamp.

#Collage #China #RichardSheaffCollection

**Letterform Archive** @letterformarchive@typo.social · Feb 20

Feb 20

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive@typo.social

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.

Two panels of a folded card. On the left panel is an illustration of two women peeking through a door keyhole. On the right panel is text inside a decorative frame: “The Secret Out at Last: Why Mrs. Brown Has Such a Perfect Figure”.

The right side of the card is unfolded to reveal an illustration of a woman in a corset.

Backside of the card shows the first text panel on left, and a longer text on the right, titled with “Adjustable Duplex Corset”.

#Ephemera #1880s #Victorian

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