The materials in this collection are scrapbooks of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century trade cards. The cards in volumes 1-3 are mainly for Rochester, New York manufacturers and merchants and in volume 4 for New York City businesses. These small cards advertise such products as soap, clothing, shoes, food, jewelry and medicines and are illustrated with idealized views of children engaged in various activities and stereotypical depictions of ethnic and racial groups. Other popular subjects are animals and nature. Volume 5 contains cards from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.