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Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials for eggs and meat products. Publications date from the 1890s-2004, with most material concentrated between the 1930s-1990s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection includes promotional materials for eggs and meat products, many published by egg-producer or meat-producer organizations, such as the American Egg Board and the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Products featured include pork, ham, sausage, bacon, beef, ribs, steak, extract of beef, veal, lamb, turkey, chicken, and lunchmeat. Publications date from the 1890s-2004, with most material concentrated between the 1930s-2000s.

Forms part of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. This collection contains ephemera promoting more than one culinary product or brand. Publications date from 1917-1993.

This collection contains ephemera promoting more than one culinary product or brand. Unlike the Culinary Ephemera: Multi-Product Food Companies collection, many of these publications promote products from multiple companies or brands, rather than multiple products from one company.

The Gerald T. and Charlotte B. Maxson printed ephemera collection contains over 5,000 pieces of assorted ephemera, the majority of which were commercially printed in the United States during the mid to late 19th-century.

The Gerald T. and Charlotte B. Maxson printed ephemera collection contains over 5,000 pieces of assorted ephemera, the majority of which were commercially printed in the United States during the mid to late 19th-century.

The Maxson collection provides a valuable resource for the study of 19th-century visual culture, commercial advertising, and humor in addition to the role of gender, ethnicity, and race in advertising. American businesses are the predominant focus of the collection, though many international businesses are also represented. While trade cards are by far the most prevalent type of ephemera found in this collection, an extensive array of genres are present including die cut scrapbook pieces, photographs, engravings, maps, serials, and manuscript materials.

The 23 binders that house the Maxson collection were arranged by the collectors themselves. Items are organized somewhat randomly in terms of topical arrangement. While pockets of related materials can be found here and there (for instance, the entirety of Volume 16 contains circus-related items while Volume 11 contains an extensive number of Shaker-related materials), for the most part any given subject may appear in any given volume. In some cases, items are clustered as a result of having been acquired together or due to a documented common provenance. Occasional typed annotations written by the Maxsons help provide additional context for certain items.

The Maxson Collection Subject Index serves as a volume-level subject index for materials found throughout the binders. The subjects indexed here are generally representative of both visual and commercial content. In addition to more general subjects, many names of specific people, places, buildings, events, and organizations that appear in the materials have also been listed. Researchers engaging with this collection should be aware that they will encounter numerous examples of racist caricatures, especially ones depicting African American, Native American, Irish, and Chinese people.