Very good pre-owned condition. Marked up for dances. See photos for more details.
An archive of seven (7) original collegiate dance cards from the New Jersey College for Women (NJC), dating sequentially from 1931 to 1934. This collection provides a four-year window into the social life, graphic arts, and student traditions of a premier East Coast women's college during the height of the Art Deco era and the Great Depression. Four (4) of these cards are made by The Marlboro Company (309 Fifth Avenue, New York City), a historic NYC printing and vintage graphic design house.
- The Marlboro Provenance: 4 cards feature the distinct, high-end printing indicators (such as colophons or blindstamps) of The Marlboro Company, NYC. Their work is celebrated for its precise engineering and heavy-stock Art Deco typography.
- Intact Accolades: This lot retains an incredible amount of its original structural elements, including the fragile silk wrist cords and accompanying miniature dance pencils that were used by students to fill out their cards on the ballroom floor.
- Social History Value: Features printed lists of popular 1930s dance types (waltzes and fox-trots), student committees, and official college chaperone/patroness lists from the era of founding dean Mabel Smith Douglass.
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