Editing Clipper (section)

=== Sailing cards ===
[[File:Free trade.jpg|thumb|right|Clipper ship sailing card for the ''Free Trade'', printed by Nesbitt & Co., New York, early 1860s]]

Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper-ship sailing cards.  These cards, slightly larger than today's postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.  Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art. Perhaps 3,500 cards survive.  With their rarity and importance as artifacts of nautical, Western, and printing history, clipper cards are valued by both private collectors and institutions.<ref>{{cite web
| url        = http://www.americanantiquarian.org/clippershipcards.htm
| title      = Clipper Ship Cards
| last       = Neale
| first      = Jane
| publisher  = American Antiquarian Society
| access-date = 2014-07-11
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131008132854/http://www.americanantiquarian.org/clippershipcards.htm
| archive-date= 2013-10-08
}}</ref>