Entertainment & Music
Concerts and Recitals, Mendelssohn Quintette Club
Boston, Massachusetts: F.A. Searle, Printer, 1864. Program for a "grand organ concert" featuring Mrs. L.S. Frohock, and "Introducing the New Instrument, the 'Saxophone'". Originally developed in 1840 by Adolphe Sax, the instrument did not catch on in popularity in the States until the 1860s. Composers featured in this program include.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising and Promotion, Business History, Botany 500
Philadelphia: 1947-48. A visual narrative of this iconic brand name's sartorial influence during the halcyon period. The photographs were shot by an accomplished but unidentified commercial photographer whose skilled use of light renders the day-to-day operation and divisions of the company in stunning detail. Each photograph is captioned identifying the.....
Price: $850.00
Masquerade Ball
New York City: 1884. A 4 1/2" x 7 1/2" ticket to the grand masquerade ball. Lithograph depicts a proper entry before the light revelry begins. A much more understated scene than many ball tickets. Ticket has been used (stub lacking). Reverse is blank with stamp.
Price: $275.00
dance, rumba, flip book, arthur murrary,
Bromo-Seltzer, 1940s. A flip book produced by the Bromo-Seltzer Company in conjunction with Arthur Murray, the American Dance instructor, in order to teach the dance know as the Rumba. Each page as a photograph and corresponding instructions, so that when you flip through the book, you can see the dance.....
Price: $65.00
Historical Memorabilia, Social History, Menu
New York: R. A. Ringler Co., engraver. 1902. A 12" 5 1/2" silk menu with a color illustration of HRH Prince Henry of Prussia. Fare included Oysters, Terrapin Philadelphia Style, Sweetbread, New Century and much more. Various wines and liqueurs served through. The dinner was to introduce the Prince to.....
Price: $550.00
Shadow Theater, Victor Hugo, French Art and Culture, Bastille Day, Cross-Cultural
Paris: Mauclair Dacier, c1903. An ornate, and rather stunning, turn-of-the-century French shadow theater set, housed in a large chromolithographed box (15.5" by 19.75" by 3") depicting the Revue du 14 Juillet … Paris, as well as two smaller scenes of the 1893 Fˆtes Franco-Russes. Underneath the lid, a printed label.....
Price: $4,000.00
Broadside, theater, New Orleans, The Daughter of the Regiment, opera, Anne Poinsot, Marietta Piccolomini
New Orleans, LA: Theatre d'Orleans, December 10, 1858. The item is a notice to the public by the Theatre d'Orleans for the performance of "The Daughter of the Regiment", a opera comique by Gaetano Donizetti. In the notice it states that "M'lle Poinsot is too unwell to appear this evening.......
Price: $100.00
Original Art, Puppet Show, Fabric Swatches
1950. A charming and fanciful group of original watercolor costume design sketches for a Puppet Show. Also features a 10" x 7" backcloth design. The drawings were made in two sizes, many with attached fabric swatches. There are 19 designs at 11" x 7 1/2", most with names for the.....
Price: $1,000.00
trade catalogue, Printing and Publishing, Education, Temperance
Great Britain: Tonic Sol-Fa Agency, October 1882. A trade catalogue for the Tonic Sol-Fa Agency, who sold a variety of books and sheet music. This specific catalogue was their teacher's edition, and in addition to the books and sheet music it also sold a different supplies a teacher might use.....
Price: $110.00
Atlantic Telegraph, Visual Culture, Transatlantic Cable
1857-1858. Three ( 3) different pieces of printed music with illustrated covers depicting the enthusiasm surrounding the laying of the cable. Both romanticized and scientifically accurate depiction of the Niagara & Agamemnon laying the cable, the cable itself; both size and composition and the geographic placement. The titles the Atlantic.....
Price: $450.00
Music, Victor Talking Machine Company, Victrola, Nipper, Social History
Camden, New Jersey: Victor Talking Machine Company, 1920s. Charming novelty fan in the form of a music record, advertising Victrola. On the recto is a stylish young woman's face in front of the record; on the verso, a panorama of young people dancing and engaging in outdoor recreation revolve around.....
Price: $300.00
Violence Against Women,History of Film,Silent Movies,Starlets of the Silver Screen,Chastity,Male Savior Syndrome,Triangle Motion Picture Company,Racism,Anti-Arab Sentiment
[Minneapolis, Minnesota]: Friedman Film Corporation, [1915]. Modesty is kicked to the curb in this flashy illustrated advertisement for a showing of "Wars' Women", a self-described "stupendous" 1915 silent film starring Enid Markey denouncing violence towards the "weaker sex" in times of war. "Wars' Women" appears to be a lost film.....
Price: $100.00
Civil War Song Sheet,Popular Music
United States: c.1865. A Civil-War era song sheet with pro-Union lyrics, printed "as sung by our volunteers", directing singers to sing it to a "Gay and Happy" tune: "Traitors have betrayed the nation, But we will by the Union stand; Let every Patriot seek his station, With the gallant warlike.....
Price: $100.00
children's books, religion, Christianity, music, hymns
Boston, MA: Timothy Swan, 1819. "The peculiar design of this publication is, to impress devotional feelings as early as possible on the infant mind; fully convinced, as the author is, that they cannot be impressed too soon; and that a child, to fill the full force of the idea of.....
Price: $100.00
music, musical score, sheet music, lullaby, children's songs, german
Berlin: Deutscher Arbeitersängerbund [German Workers' Singing Association], 1926. 24 pp, Kinder Lieder: Erstes Heft, zwei- und mehrstimmige lieder und Kanons für kleine und große kinder, which roughly translates to: First Edition, two- and three-part songs and canons for young and old children. The front cover is printed in two colors.....
Price: $38.00
nursery rhymes
Augener, 1912. Unpaginated. (65p.) Stamped Illustrated Hard Cover. An illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes with accompanying music. Full page relevant illustration verso with muscia and verse recto. Measures 11 1/2" x 8 3/4"
Price: $100.00
penmanship, alphabet, music, religion, folk songs, sermons, ABC, copy book, South Carolina
Philadelphia, PA: B. H. Rand, 1855. A copy book, apart of B. H. Rand's series, "Introduction to Penmanship". This copy book is full of practice penmanship, both in regards to letters of the alphabet and signatures. These exercises are often on the margins of the pages, or over top of.....
Price: $75.00
german, music, children songs, folk songs
Germany: [1906]. This book is volume 3 and 4 bound into a single volume. Illustrated by Ernest Liebermann. There are twelve (!2) full-page color illustrtations, five (5) additional half page (and less) color illustrations, as well as numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Inscribed on the front blank end papers.....
Price: $120.00
festival, Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, fund raiser, classical music, hospital, charity
Birmingham, England: B. Hunt and Sons, September 1849. A broadside for the the Birmingham Musical Festival, more often called the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, which was the longest-running classical music festival. It was founded in 1787, it is several day musical festival, that ran in September every three years. The.....
Price: $85.00
Chromolithography, Circus
Rochester, New York: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916. A whimsical flight through "Clown Land", with large chromolithographed illustrations of circus acts including a donkey and clowns, a polar bear on a slide, trained elephants and "educated seals", chariot races, and the "Queen of the Arena" balancing on the back of a......
Price: $125.00
music, opera, animals, nursery rhymes, anthropomorphic
Providence, RI: J. A. & A. Reid, 1880. A burletta (brief comic opera) based on the nursery tale and song 'A Frog He Would A Wooing Go'. The opera consists of three acts: Banks of the Danube, The Gypsy Camp, and The Old Mill, with fifteen (15) anthropomorphic characters along.....
Price: $175.00
Centennial Exposition Display, Instrument Maker, Letterhead
1876. A 10" x 8" letterhead for Dodworth & Co. New York, makers and retailers of musical instruments. The top half of the page is a lithograph of an engraving L. Guiguet Del., March & S.C. depicting the company's display as seen at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. The content.....
Price: $250.00
Made by Hand. songs, music, sheet music, nursery songs
1940s. A handmade song book with over 50 songs. The book has been divided up into seven categories: Traditional, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Animals, Special Occasions, People, and Games . The majority of the songs in this book are short nursery songs, such as 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', 'Rock-a-bye Baby', and.....
Price: $325.00
Women in Librarianship,History of Hats and Bonnets,History of Women and Fashion
Danvers, Massachusetts: 1930s. A charming promotional leaflet for talks given by Eleanor Coray Forman on the history of women and bonnets: "In this unusual and inspirational talk Mrs. Forman uses fascinating bonnets to illustrate worthwhile qualities in life; old fashioned bonnets for a sense of humor, an aviatrix helmet for.....
Price: $125.00