New Arrivals
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, 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, Women and Friendship,WWI Veterans
England: 1914. A sweet friendship WWI and post-WWI album inscribed "With love from Ethel 2nd to Ethel 1st For a....
Price: $325.00
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
Bells,Material Culture,Metal
East Medway, Massachusetts: George H. Holbrook, 1880s. Advertising circular for cast metal bells for churches, factories, and steamboats. manufactured by...
Price: $150.00
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
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
Maine,Summer Resorts,Travel,History of New England
York Harbor, Maine: c.1930. A beautifully photo-illustrated travel brochure promoting York Harbor and the coast of Maine as a summer...
Price: $150.00
Dance Cards,German Heritage and Identity,Balls and Masquerades
[Mystic, Connecticut]: Social Society Frohsinn, 1911. Chromolithographed dance card for a February, 1911 masked ball hosted by a German heritage...
Price: $125.00
Engines,Innovation and Industry
New York, New York: Cammeyer & Sayer, c.1876. Illustrated advertisements for the Rider Compression Engine, marketed as an "unrivaled" engine...
Price: $125.00
Forges and Tools,American Manufacturing,Material History and Culture
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Scale Co., c.1875. Illustrated bifolium (11.75" by 9"), advertising "Portable forges, blowers and tools" by the Chicago...
Price: $175.00
Centennial Exposition of 1876,Philadlephia,American Manufacturing
Williamsport, Pennsylvania: E. Andrews, Saw Manufacturer, c.1876. Illustrated advertisement for E. Andrews, Saw Manufacturer, with an illustration of "The Old...
Price: $100.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
[1860]. An 8" x 5 1/4" color lithograph illustration of a statuesque and proper lady borders by embossed whimsical anthropomorphic...
Price: $125.00
Pop-Ups and Moveable Cards,Birthday Greetings
England: c.1879. A charming pop-up/moveable birthday greeting card depicting a large bouquet of flowers. The message inside reveals itself when...
Price: $100.00
Moveables and Accordion-Style Pop-Ups
Germany: 1880s. A most charming German greeting card with a clever mechanism: when the embossed die-cut scrap is pulled down...
Price: $100.00
Humor,Embossed die-cut Valentine,Moveable,Hand-colored, Alamanac
England: 1850s. A charming example of "paper with a secret" in Valentine form: small embossed die-cut bifolium with hand-colored scrap...
Price: $125.00
Lace paper,Ballerinas,Putti,Weeping Willow
United States: 1850s. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and...
Price: $85.00
Calligraphic Writing,Tokens
United States: 19th century. Eight (8) hand-lettered calling cards/tokens of friendship, displaying a range of techniques and artistic skill. Nicely...
Price: $175.00
Transformation,Parisian Department Stores
Paris: 1890s. A charming children's transformation advertising Au Bon Marché/Maison A. Boucicaut, a Parisian department store. Front depicts a little...
Price: $125.00