Catalog Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: James Leffel and Company
setName: label: See more items in
content: James Leffel and Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0960, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of air brushed black-and-white photographs, mounted on mat board with annotations about dimensions, where to add color and text and other production notes. Some of the photographs are described and numbered, noting a negative number and depict Leffel and Trump Manufacturing Company products. In some instances, the original photographer's name is noted. However, most are unidentified.  James Leffel and Company contracted with outside firms and individuals such as Rockford Illustrating Company, A.W. Dubes and Company, Springfield, Ohio; Evans and Dubes, Springfield, Ohio; Kight Advertising Company, Columbus, Ohio; Bucher Engraving Company, Columbus, Ohio;  Pixley-Messick Company Commercial Photographers Artists and Engravers, Springfield, Ohio; J. Manz and Company Department of Photography, Chicago, Illinois; Schultz-Gosiger Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Rogers and Company, Chicago. 

These images were presumably used for assembling the company catalog, product literature, and other promotional materials. Air brushing allowed artists to create highly rendered images with a high level of realism. The materials are arranged alphabetically by topic.