New Arrivals
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Infant Care,Parenting Education,Child Growth and Psychology,Public Health
United States and Canada: 1951-1965. A collection of twelve (12) items relating to infant care and parenting education, published in...
Price: $1,200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Workforce,8-hour Work Day
Washington, D.C. Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. A scarce bulletin issued in 1921 by the Women’s...
Price: $300.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Military,U.S. Navy,20th Century Career Women
United States: U.S. Navy, 1950s. A recruitment booklet promoting careers for women in the Navy, featuring a photo of a....
Price: $325.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Addiction in America,Drugs and War,20th Century American Politics,Public Health
San Francisco, California: Drug Research Project, c.1974. Featuring an image of Uncle Sam smoking a cigar and leaning on an...
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, National Lotteries,Lottery in Mexico, Child Labor
Mexico: Lotería Nacional Para La Beneficencia Pública, 1938. A promotional booklet for the 1938 Lotería Nacional Para La Beneficencia Pública...
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Firefighting,Safety,Inventories and Record Books
United States: 1903. A detailed inventory and record book spanning the dates 1903 and 1906, appearing to have belonged to...
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Air Force,Recruitment
United States: U.S. Air Force, [1972]. A guide to career opportunities in the Air Force, published for teens and young...
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Muscogee Nation,Native Americans,Oklahoma
United States: c.1903. Two (2) items documenting the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's relation to the federal government at the turn of...
Price: $200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Careers in STEM,The American Workforce
New York, New York: General Electric, 1956-1968. A grouping of five (5) publications by General Electric, courting young talent and...
Price: $450.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Communications Technology,Telephonists and Switchboard Operators in WWII,Signal Corps
United States: Bell Telephone Company, c.1943. A WWII-era promotional booklet from Bell, highlighting the importance of telephones and communications technology...
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
United States: c.1943. Two (2) items documenting textile rationing on the homefront during the Second World War, in which cottons...
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,V for Victory,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The...
State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State School of Agriculture, 1942. Featuring a "V for Victory" style illustration on the front, this...
Price: $200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, USAF,Camouflage and Concealment,WWII
Tampa, Florida: Third Air Force, c.1945. A darkly humorous cartoon titled "Booby the Bear", published to remind members of the...
Price: $350.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Mortuaries,Travel Brochures,History of California,Spanish Architecture
Long Beach, California: J.J. Mottell, Inc., 1940s. An illustrated brochure promoting a mortuary in Long Beach, California, as an ideal...
Price: $275.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Vassar College,Female Friendship,Women in Higher Education
Poughkeepsie, NY: 1912-1920. A small archive of material belonging to a spirited young woman by the name of Laura Beaumont...
Price: $550.00
Domestic Abuse in Advertising,Gender and Marriage in 19th Century America
New York, New York. J. Marett. Troubling to modern sensibilities, but revealing about gender roles and stereotypes in 19th century...
Price: $60.00
Handmade Invitation,Homemaking,Showers and Parties
United States: Medford, Massachusetts, 1930s. A creative handmade invitation inviting the recipient to a "Kitchen Shower for Gloria and Bob"...
Price: $75.00
Student Groups and Societies,Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York: Philalethean Society, Vassar College, 1869. Lithographed invitation to a meeting of the Philalethean Society at Vassar College...
Price: $50.00
History of Art Conservation,Antiquarianism
Pimlico, London, England: T. Gwennap Junr. 1827. A scarce engraved business card advertising conservation services by an engraver and art...
Price: $100.00
Engraved Ticket,Typography,New York University
New York, New York: University of the City of New York, 1859. Engraved ticket for entry into the 1859 Junior...
Price: $65.00
Women in Librarianship,History of Hats and Bonnets,History of Women and...
Danvers, Massachusetts: 1930s. A charming promotional leaflet for talks given by Eleanor Coray Forman on the history of women and...
Price: $125.00
Uncle Tom's Cabin,Race in America,American Novels
United States: c.1890. A late 19th-century reproduction of a photograph, with two actors portraying Uncle Tom and Little Eva from...
Price: $50.00
Tongue-in-Cheek Advertising,Men's Fashion, Paper with a Secret
Paris, France: Chapeau Henry, 1890s. A tongue-in-cheek 1890s advertising card for a Parisian hat maker, showing a balding man on...
Price: $100.00
Chap books,Children and Animals
New York, New York: T. Mason and G. Lane, 1837. A children's story about a girl and a cat, first...
Price: $50.00