Product Designs and Samples
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gilman, Georgiana Sandford, 1887-1982
label: Collection Creator
content: MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-
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content: Pease, L.F.
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content: Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915
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content: Sandford, Frank S., 1853-1924
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford Greeting Card Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford, Mary Elizabeth, 1852-1936
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandford, Ruth, 1879-1972
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content: Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers
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content: Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers / Series 1: Sandford Card Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911-1941; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1252, Subseries 1.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Materials document the creative aspects of making products for the company. This material consists primarily of original designs and samples for baby, birthday, Christmas, Easter, get well, thank you, and general greeting cards. Most of the samples were created by Mary Elizabeth Sandford and date from the 1930s. A few of the designs were created by Helen Sandford and include a 1911 bill of sale. There are also samples for postcards, calendars, mailing envelopes, and albums. Materials are first arranged in chronological order.  Boxes 27 through 29 are Sandford Company cards arranged in order by stock number followed by cards arranged in alphabetical order by subject.  In later years the Sandford Company purchased surplus from other manufacturers and resold them. These cards have a stock number (i. e. D 16) stamped on the back lower left corner and date from 1908-1915.