Esquire Club Credit Card, United States, 1957
date: label: date made
content: 1957
notes: label: Description
content: The Esquire Club Credit Card and Directory Guide was issued by <i>Esquire</i> magazine beginning in 1956. It functioned similarly to the Diners’ Club card, allowing consumers to pay for meals and hotels with credit instead of cash at locations involved in the cards plan. The Diners’ Club card helped popularize credit card payments during the 1950s, and its success prompted other companies to issue their own cards to capitalize on the trend. As the credit card business grew, it also began to consolidate, with Diners’ Club acquiring Esquire Club in 1958 to compete with American Express. This card belonged to Alfred Bloomingdale, President of Diners’ Club.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bloomingdale, Alfred
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.72.66.110
label: catalog number
content: 72.66.110
label: accession number
content: 301409
label: serial number
content: 7922
objectType: label: Object Name
content: credit card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.7 cm x 9.6 cm x .3 cm; 2 1/4 in x 3 25/32 in x 1/8 in