include postcards, baseball cards and advertisements. He accepted the Jefferson Burdick collection at the Met, which included 300,000 items of American prints and memorabilia. In 1952 he published Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, which has remained continuously in print.

In 2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the centenary of the founding of its Department of Prints with The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor. The exhibit explored