An incredible collection of 1486 calling and business cards of both the famous and the infamous, 95% of which are signed or inscribed. Ranging from the beginning of the 19th Century, through the end of the 20th Century, this mammoth collection includes wide ranging subject matter both foreign and domestic, including politics, military, jurisprudence, music, composers, Presidents, First Ladies, athletes, writers, royalty, entertainers, business, newcasters, artists, and just about everything else imaginable. Highlights include: P.T. Barnum; Johannes Brahms (2); Sam Clemens; Grover Cleveland; Buffalo Bill Cody (2); Calvin Coolidge (3); Jefferson Davis; De Gaulle; Claude Debussy; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2); Charles Dickens; Edward VII; Amelia Earhart; Gustave Eiffel (2); Dwight D. Eisenhower; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Douglas Fairbanks (3); Sigmund Freud; Maxim Gorki; Benjamin Harrison (2); Nathanial Hawthorne; Harry Houdini; Rutherford B. Hayes (3); Herbert Hoover (2); J. Edgar Hoover (2); Sam Houston (4); James Joyce; Lyndon Johnson; Carl Jung; Boris Karloff; Jack London; Joan Miro; Guglielmo Marconi; George C. Marshall (4); William McKinley (3); Benito Mussolini; Adolf Hitler; Richard Nixon (7); Louis Pasteur; George S. Patton; Frederic Remington; Jackie Robinson; Rodin (2); Franklin Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt (3); John Singer Sargent; George Bernard Shaw (2); Sheridan; William Sheridan (3); John Philip Sousa; Henry Stanley (2); John Steinbeck (2); Robert Louis Stevenson (2); Johann Strauss (2); William Howard Taft (5); Leo Tolstoy; William Thackery; Henri Toulouse Lautrec; Leon Trotsky; Booker T. Washington; Eleanor Roosevelt (5); Nathanial Webster; Dr. Seuss and Woodrow Wilson. A truly amazing accumulation of material, overall Excellent to EX-MT condition.