Posters, Prints & Photography
Life Preservers, Safety Equipment, Nautical and Maritime
New York, New York: International Life Suit Corporation, 1910s. Advertising handbill for the Ever-Warm Safety-Suit, a diving suit akin to a life preserver that claims to "keep you afloat for hours or days, dry and warm, absolutely protected from exposure". A photograph of a group of adults and children wearing.....
Price: $125.00
photographs, resort, nature resort, hotel
Oscawana, NY: [1920s]. Valeria Home was a resort in Oscawana, New York, that provided "unusual opportunities for rest and outdoor recreation", that combined the "forest, hills and lake with the best results of landscape architecture... [to] create an environment which is especially pleasing to those who love the beautiful in.....
Price: $65.00
Advertising, Business Move, Women's Goods
Boston, Massachusetts: 1859. A small format broadside. C.W. Griffiths & Co. is announcing the growth of their business having leased a space that will allow them to expand their manufacturing. The larger area will allow them to not only continue with the goods they already make, but it also means.....
Price: $95.00
engraving, flyer, tabernacle, prosthelytism, Advertising and Promotion
St. Louis, MO: W. E. Stephens, 1895. A flyer for the sale of "The Tabernacle of Witness", an engraving done by Cora Massie Stephens (1856-1943). The engraving was being sold by William Edward Stephens (1850-1918), Cora's husband and owner of W. E. Stephens & Co. (eventually renamed Stephens Lithographing and.....
Price: $85.00
brochure, design, catalogue,
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Approx. 162, Illustrated with several color plates, of which some are tipped in, along with dozens of black & white illustrations. These graphic images are reproductions of the advertising work done in the 1920s. At the beginning of the book there are three separate.....
Price: $200.00
Broadside, Advertising and promotion, Housewares
Geneseo, ILL: Republic Leg-Power Print, [1880s]. A 12" x 8 1/2" illustrated broadside demonstrating how a spring bed will give you a better nights sleep. An image of Jonathan sleeping peacefully on a spring bed and a vignette of Job, who can't sleep because his bed is sagging. Promoted as.....
Price: $150.00
Public Health,Pneumonia,Design,Black Humor
Baltimore, Maryland: State Department of Maryland, 1940s. A stark visual reminder of the dangers pneumonia and other pulmonary disease pose to the general public, published by the State Department of Maryland as a public health warning: "Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Influenza are at present responsible for 14 per cent of all.....
Price: $450.00
Beer, Poetry, German-American poetry
Rochester NY: Gertrude Schwabl, 1935. A large format broadside with verse and music for "Ei du Schone, ei du schone, ei du schone Schnitzelbank."The 24 captioned images are the objects found in this cumulative song. Presumably the broadside was designed to encourage patrons to sing along. Measures 37 1/2" x......
Price: $275.00
vintage art poster, original art poster, propaganda
Sweden: Wailen Datnolm Boktr, 1975. Title: Stoppa Matchen! (Stop the Match) Designer: Kjartan Slettemark (Norwegian) Printer: Wailen Datnolm Boktr. AB, Lund 1975 Year: 1975 Image from photograph of observers in a stadium with an armed guard in the foreground. A tennis racket superimposed atop the the scene. This poster was.....
Price: $350.00
Fairs & Expositions, Art Deco, Women
Vienna, Austria: J. Weiner, 1929. A 35" x 23 1/2" vividly colored poster for the Vienna Fair in 1929. A striking and bold allegorical depicting of what appears to be a powerful woman crusader wearing a crown and holding the key. Captioned Feria de Viena 1a8 de Septembre de 1929.....
Price: $375.00
Broadside, Cider Mill
Cheshire CT: 1837. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan Both, 1837. A 4" x 5 1/4" woodcut of the horse powered device and the horse. Designed after the Box Coffee Mill for the purpose of grinding Apples into Pumice.....
Price: $800.00
Broadside, Cider Mill
Cheshire CT: 1837. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan Both, 1837. A 4" x 5 1/4" woodcut of the horse powered device and the horse. Designed after the Box Coffee Mill for the purpose of grinding Apples into Pumice.....
Price: $1,050.00
Manufacturing,Maine,Cloth and Textiles,Broadside
Houlton, Maine: Theo Cary, 1859. Printed broadside promoting new manufacturing equipment at Cary's Mills in Houlton, Maine, including a "fitted up apparatus for cloth dressing and dyeing" and a "fulling mill" for making cloth. Nathaniel Bodwell (b. c.1800) ran the mill. Important ephemeral evidence of the rapid rise in industrial.....
Price: $350.00
Sebre Gustin Jr, Chelsea Vermont, Dentistry, Dental Surgery
Hangover, NH: Kimball's Dartmouth Press, c 1845-67. A 15" x 12" boardside printed on orange stock bordered in decoratiave elements. Sebre Gustin, Jr. of Chelsea, Vt. wished to advertise that he had recently opened rooms and was willing to provide home visits for interested patients. There are two blank spaces.....
Price: $225.00
C. Lovat Fraser, rhyme sheet
London: The Poetry Bookshop. The Poetry Bookshop, London. Measures 14" x 6 1/2" with top of page stating Rhyme Sheet: (Second Series) and bottom [No. 11]. A poem, Bog Love, written by Shane Leslie is accompanied by two decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. as new.
Price: $28.00
germany, German Revolution, politics, Hanover, prussia, propaganda
Germany: Hannoversche Buch u Kunstdruckerei A. Funke, c1918. German-Hanoverian Party (GHP) was a conservative, federalist German political party of the early 1900s. It, like mainly other parties were disbanded in 1933 as the Nazi Party came into power. This poster showcases an image of a young man on a white.....
Price: $225.00