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Baille, who was initially suspicious when
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art and printing. She believed that advertising and commercial art were a reflection of the times in which they were created, and never more so than in the 19th century. Her work focused largely on New York City — as the center of
American advertising (and as her lifelong home) — but her interests were international, as her collections of aeronautical sheet music, trade cards, and other ephemera reflect.
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bought for $ 100 from a picture framer. It eventually emerged that this had been stolen, by which time
Landauer's collection was well-established. As she built her bookplate collection, Landauer endeavoured to learn more about the field from other notable collectors. Among these was William E.
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Landauer's collection of ephemera — particularly her trade cards — grew substantially as she sought material exemplifying various aspects of advertising. In 1926, following a move to the Drake Hotel, she gave her already significant collection of over 100,000 trade cards to the
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E.J. Doherty, "The Bella C. Landauer
Collection of Aeronautical Music in the Archives of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, Rockefeller Center, New York," "Flying and Popular Aviation," February
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Printers' Mottoes: A Collection of
Sentiments Taken From Title-pages and Colophons of Books Issued By Printers and Publishers, Booksellers, Artists and Patrons From the Fifteenth Century to the Present.
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Landauer's interest in aeronautics was initiated by her son becoming a pilot. She responded by joining the
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (now known as the
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New York Public Library: Gift of trade cards, sheet music, and other ephemera
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manufacturer, was born in New York in 1874. For a short time she attended the
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Library of Congress: Landauer collection of aeronautical prints and drawings
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Literary Illusions in American Advertising as Sources of Social History.
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Landauer continued collecting and researching until her death in 1960.
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a musical homage to the earliest balloon flights made by the
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My City 'Tis of Thee: New York City on Sheet-Music Covers.
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and printed in 1785. The collection is now part of the
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