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Leather working, Tanners, Machinery
Boston, Massachusetts: Noble & Brooks, c1870s. Illustrated advertising bifolium for Noble & Brooks, "sole agents for the sale of A. Richardson's Patent Union Leather Splitting Machines, also Dealers in Leather, Tanners' & Curriers' Tools". Includes lithographed illustrations of the various tools and their names. Bifolium (10.5" by 8.25"), lithographed on.....
Price: $225.00
Illustrated Trade Catalogue
New York, New York: Spelman Brothers, c.1905. Illustrated trade catalogue for Spelman Brothers, a New York-based shop of eclectic "Bazaar and Bargain Goods". Offers deals on items ranging from clothing, flags, and base balls to fans, handkerchiefs, lace collars, and brooches. Spelman Brothers was most active between the 1880s and.....
Price: $150.00
Red Scare, Anti-Communist Sentiment, Anti-Soviet Sentiment, American Legion, Capitalism, Democracy
United States: [The American Legion?], c.1925. The present booklet was published for the general public, most likely by the American Legion, in a bid to establish communism as an insidious threat to the American way of life and democracy. Includes a foreword by Garland W. Powell, National Director of the.....
Price: $275.00
Menu, Trade Organization, Social History, Printing and Publishing
Philadelpia: Ashmead, Printer, 1857. A 8 1/2" x 6" printed on silk for an event held at La Pierre House, Ward & Brothers, Prop'rs. June 25th, 1857. Elaborate menu with 11 courses. The Side Dishes course had 12 different dishes including Pigeons innocents, aux Olives tournes and Petits Pates, garni.....
Price: $400.00
State Arms, Coat of Arms, United States Of America, Prang, engraving, printers cut book
Manufacturer: L. Prang & Co. Location: Boston, MA Date: 1876 Pages: 10 (printed on single side) Subject Matter: Printers Cut Book, State Arms A printers cut book of the States' Coat of Arms. Each page has six coat of arms on it, engraved and gilded. The book was prepared with.....
Price: $325.00
Printing & Publishing, Lithography, Imps, Race and Racism, Chromolithography
United States: 1901. Ten (10) vibrant two-sided chromolithograph prints advertising printing inks, dry colors, varnishes, bronze powders, and paper, with one advertising a company offering engraving, electrotyping, and photography. Four (4) different companies are represented in this grouping including the Ault & Wiborg Company, J. Manz, Jaenecke Printing Ink Co......
Price: $2,000.00
Travelogue, Journal
A collection of 30 legal size pages of narrative describing the itinerary from a European grand tour taken by most likely Thirza Merriam Rowley wife of H. Curtis Rowley and daughter of Homer Merriam. The journal of loose pages is structured by date and provides a daily accounting by specific.....
Price: $375.00
Agnosticism,Philosophy,Radical Freethought
New York, New York: 1922. Vol. 49, No. 31 of "The Truth Seeker", a "Freethought and Agnostic Newspaper" that provided a space for radical and progressive thinkers to discuss social, religious, and moral issues without interference from the Church and other conservative institutions. This issue features a particularly lovely allegorical.....
Price: $150.00
Vinegar Valentines, Humor, Job Printing, Gender, Masculinity, Gender Roles, Family and Domestic Work
London: G. Ingram, 1860s. Two (2) large Vinegar Valentines produced by G. Ingram of London. These particular Vinegar Valentines are quite large compared to others produced at the time; one here measures 25.5" by 9.25", while the other measures 21" by 8.25". Most would generally be about a third or.....
Price: $450.00
Jigsaw Puzzle, Farm Life, Childhood Ephemera, Wooden Puzzle
N. Carpenter, c1850s. An 8 1/2" x 12" litho on wood jigsaw puzzle titled "The Life of a Farmer. The puzzle is comprised of 18 captioned vignettes. They are The Farmer and His Family, The Farm House Ricks & Stables, Milking, Churning, Making Cheese, Sheep Feeding, Ploughing, Sowing, Harrowing, Weeding.....
Price: $650.00
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, Anthropomorphism
New York: Frederick Warne & Co. 36 East 22d Street, 1908. 85 pp. Green paper on board with applied stamp of dressed goose. 27 color illustrations. Color pictorial endpapersThis classic, first American edition, tale by Beatrix Potter is a charming story, with just that hint of mortal danger, exactly as.....
Price: $850.00
Costume Party, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Ethnicity and Culture, Jenny Lind
New York: Sam'l Gabriel & Sons Co. No. D137, [1940s]. Two (2) 8" die-cut paper dolls; one blond, Phyllis and one brunette, Patricia. with wooden bases (one lacking). The costumes for Blond Phyllis include American Costume of 1860 - "Betsy Ann" American Costume - "Jenny Lind" Czechoslovak Costume "Magda" Chinese.....
Price: $150.00
Temperance,Serials,History of Alcohol and Society
Albany, New York: Temperance Recorder, October 1837-July 1842. A partial run of the Temperance Recorder, including the following twelve (12) issues: Vol. VI, No. 8; Vol. X, Nos. 6-9, 11-12; and Vol. XI, Nos. 1-5. The Temperance Recorder was founded in the early 1830s by the New York State Temperance.....
Price: $325.00
Etymology, language charts, German, Maps
Jasper, IN: 1915-1920. A three volume set that explores in depth the etymology of the English Language, in particular the Teutonic (Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, of which Anglo Saxons spoke) element found within the language. These three volumes were hand crafted by J. T. Melchior, and include.....
Price: $925.00
Tailoring, Clothing Design, Home Economics, Learn to Sew, Stitching , ABAA-RBMS-2023
United States: c.1930. A composition notebook filled with approx. fifty-five (55) hand-sewn samples of stitches, hemming, and embroidery, captioned in ink manuscript by "Mrs. Robert D. Patterson", a student of either sewing or home economics. She received a "B+" grade, marked in pencil on the first leaf. The samples show.....
Price: $350.00
Education
Orion, Illinois: 1888. Four (4) manuscript composition notebooks belonging to Myrtle Fulton, a talented Fulton County, Illinois student aged 16 in 1888. Myrtle had a remarkable talent for cartography; one would not know from her drawings of the continents that she was only 16 when she compiled these notebooks. Each.....
Price: $550.00