1930s NATIONAL PRESS INC. CHICAGO SALESMAN'S SAMPLE BOOK Business Cards/Blotters For Sale

A Rare and Original Vintage Salesman's Sample Book Showing Business Cards, Blotters & Campaign Card Sizes, and Highlighting Various Typefaces and Labels Produced by National Press, Inc., located in Chicago.In the 1930s,National Press, Chicago,wasa notable publishing and printing business. The company prominently manufactured and printed multi-coloredpromotional postcards, ad blotters, marketing materials, and business stationery.During this era, Chicago's Near West Side—particularly aroundJefferson Street—was a bustling industrial, commercial, and printing hub heavily populated by lithographers, machinery manufacturers, and local commercial printers. Vintage advertisements, including blotters and divided-back souvenir cards printed by National Press during the 1930s, often featured the company brandingand offered bulk promotional items (such as "1000 postcards for $7.45") directly to businesses nationwide.This highly collectible item measures about 5" x 10" and contains 28 weighty cardboard pages ofbusiness card examples from the Chicago area and other national locations.