Cutalogue from Cobb Shinn - Cutalog Number Twenty-Five [25]

32 pp. An advertising catalog for Christmas-related images offered by Cobb Shinn, what were then called 'stock cuts' and are now referred to as 'clip art.' Shinn was a very popular cartoonist, postcard designer and printer. His work helped advertise Ford's Model T, and also featured contemporary celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin. He began issuing monthly catalogues of his stock cuts in the late 1920s and continued to do so until at least 1948.