PAPER SHIPS OF SAIL AND STEAM.

Points out that the romance of ocean travel from the late 1850s to the turn of the century has been captured on the trade cards of the time. Trade cards as hand outs to passengers by the ship lines and their agents; Direct descendants of the better known clipper cards which advertised the sailing ships in the 1840s and 1850s; Observation that the trade cards came into their full glory in the 1870s and 1880s, when the chromolithographic process gained currency.