Bureau of Engraving & Printing Souvenir Card Collection Albums & Loose Cards & Stamps, Various Years
Entry/Object ID
AM2020.2.323
Scope and Content
Bureau of Engraving & Printing Souvenir Card Collection Albums & Loose Cards & Stamps, Various Years Three Binders containing various printed certificates, currencies, bundle of loose souvenir cards, envelope of stamps collected by Marshall White. Albums marked A. Loose card bundle marked B.
According to the Souvenir Card Collectors Society:
The Bureau of Engraving & Printing issued its first official souvenir cards in 1969 and has produced well over 300 at this point. This is the category that comes to mind for most collectors when they think of souvenir cards. Initially, the majority of Bureau cards were stamp-related, but gradually the focus shifted to paper money designs, especially after the Bureau ended production of U.S. postage stamps in 2004. Around this time the BEP rebranded their souvenir cards as "intaglio prints" since many did not commemorate a specific show or event. From 2007 to 2017, the BEP was restricted from printing complete currency designs and instead featured Bureau portraits and vignettes. In 2018 they resumed using currency on.
Collection
Marshall & Melanie White
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Album
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Memorabilia
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Stamps
Search Terms
U.S. Bureau of Engraving, Bureau of Engraving Souvenir Cards
