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Suggested Reading
Ames, Kenneth L., "Trade catalogues and the study of history,"
in Accumulation & display: mass marketing household goods in
America, 1880-1920 /
([Winterthur, Del.]: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1986.
pp. 7-14
Baker,
T. Lindsay. North American Windmill Manufacturers' Trade Literature
(Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998)
Baker,
T. Lindsay, "Researching history through trade literature,"
History News, vol. 53, no. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 24-27
Crom,
Theodore R. Trade Catalogues, 1542-1842. Melrose, Fla.: T.R.
Crom, 1989.
Culbertson,
Margaret, "Mail-order architecture: Plan books and American
house design," in Consumer culture and the American home,
1890-1930 (Beaumont, TX: McFaddin-Ward House, 1988); pp. 65-69
Davis,
Audrey B. The finest instruments ever made: a bibliography of
medical, dental, optical, and pharmaceutical company trade literature,
1700-1939 (Arlington, Mass.: Medical History Pub. Associates,
c1986)
Gitner,
Fred (compiled and edited by) Medical trade catalogs at The New
York Academy of Medicine Library: a bibliography / (New York,
NY: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1995)
Gottfried, Herbert. "Building the picture: trading on the imagery
of production and design," Winterthur Portfolio, vol.
27 no.4 (1992) pp.235-253.
Hagley
Museum and Library. Trade catalogs in the Hagley Museum and Library
by Nina de Angeli Walls. (Wilmington, Del.: Hagley Museum and
Library, 1987)
Jennings,
Jan. "Drawing on the vernacular interior," Winterthur
Portfolio, vol. 27 no. 4 (1992) pp. 255-279
Kernan,
Michael, "Generations of old mail-order catalogs make colorful
index to what folks prized and paid for, way back when," Smithsonian
vol. 22 (April 1991), pp. 32-33
Kurutz,
Gary F., "California commercial catalogs: from hosiery to hardware
on exhibit," California State Library Foundation Bulletin,
no. 56, (July, 1996) pp. 15-28
Laird,
Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the
Rise of Consumer Marketing. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University
Press, 1998)
Lears,
Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A cultural history of advertising
in America (New York: Basic Books, 1994)
MacLean,
Jayne T., "Nursery and seed trade catalogs," Journal
of NAL Associates 5(3-4) (1980) pp.88-92.
McKinstry,
E. Richard. Trade catalogues at Winterthur: a guide to the literature
of merchandising, 1750-1980. (New York: Garland Publishing,
1984)
McMurray,
Elizabeth. At home in the thirties: the EKCO Collection of trade
catalogues. London: National Art Library, Victoria & Albert
Museum, 1995. [Exhibition catalogue]
Mount,
Ellis (ed.) The role of trade literature in sci-tech libraries.
(New York: Haworth Press, 1990)
Norris,
James D. Advertising and the Transformation of American Society,
1865-1920. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990).
Ratner,
Rhoda. "Historical research in trade catalogs," Science
& Technology Libraries, vol. 10 (Summer, 1990); pp. 15-22
Reiff,
Daniel D. Houses from books: treatise, pattern books, and catalogs
in American architecture, 1738-1950: a history and guide (University
Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000)
Romaine,
Lawrence B. A guide to American trade catalogues, 1744-1900. (New
York: Dover, 1990)
Schlereth,
Thomas, "Country stores, county fairs, and mail order catalogs:
consumerism in rural America," in Consumer culture and the
American Home, 1890-1930 (Beaumont, TX: McFaddin-Ward House,
1989); pp. 27-45
Smith,
Gaye. Trade Catalogues: A Hundred Years, 1850-1949. (Manchester:
Manchester Metropolitan University Library, 1992)
Thompson,
Neville, "Trade catalogues in the Winterthur Library,"
Magazine Antiques, vol. 161, no.1 (January, 2002); pp. 206-211
Travers,
Irene L., "Trade literature at the National Museum of History
and Technology [currently the National Museum of American History]"
Special Libraries, vol. 70, no. 7 (1979) pp. 272-280
Williams, Chauncey L. The dual role of manufacturers' catalogs
in industrial marketing (New York: Sweet's Catalog Service,
[1940?])
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Compiled by Jim Roan, National Museum of American History Library
Updated:
29 May 2003
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