Photography
Costume, C. Bennette Moore, Photography
New Orleans: C. Bennette Moore, 1930s. A 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" photograph of two young women, perhaps sisters wearing identical gowns with matching oversized capes. Adorned with large applique four leaf clovers and long silk tassels at the collar of the cape. Unusual background with two archways or similar.....
Price: $375.00
Trade Cards, Ephemera, Principles of Christian Church, Proselytizing
Greensboro Christian Church, c.1900. Promoting the Greensboro Christian Church: a printed card (5" by 3") with photographic illustration of the Rev. L.I. Cox on recto, and list of "The Five Cardinal Principles of the Christian Church" on verso. Cox was pastor at Elon College, and stalwart of the community during.....
Price: $100.00
Advertising, Promotional, Education, Stammerers
Boston: 1907. Promotional Piece with image of group in front of building. Appears to have a sign that states "All Are Welcome". The group consists of men, women, and children. Reverse states that the Eastern Branch will close on the fifteenth day of April 1907. "No pupils will be accepted.....
Price: $35.00
Viewbook, Photo Album, Madison Wisconsin
Madison, WI: James E. Moseley, Bookseller, c1910. 16 pages. Embossed illustrated wraps. Includes local views of City Hall, High School, Main Street, various views of University of Wisconsin campus including the horticultural, dairy and agricultural buildings, an evening on Lake Mendota, boating on Lake Mendota with lakeside picnickers and a......
Price: $85.00
maine, Massachusetts, merriam-webster, merriam, webster, vacation, tourism, family photos
New England: 1912-1917. A photo album belonging to the Rowley family consisting of their vacation family photos from a variety of locations in New England in the early 20th century. Some of the vacation spots are: Bellow Falls, VT, Pemaquid Beach, ME, York Beach, ME, Kittery Point, ME, Portland, ME.....
Price: $325.00
WWII, History of New York, Wartime Women
Bronx, New York: U.S. Naval Training School, 1946. Photo-illustrated booklet promoting the U.S. Naval Training School, Women's Reserve, located in the Bronx in 1946. Includes a brief description of the training program, which includes lectures, physical education, drills and discipline, along with the following sections: "Replacing Men at Vital Tasks".....
Price: $150.00
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 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". In the image, Uncle Tom gestures with his right hand towards heaven, as Eva looks on. They both hold a book (presumably a Bible).....
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 resort destination. Includes photos and descriptions of local historical sites, country clubs, recreation and sport, antique shopping, and a number of "quaint old houses", which the publication particularly relishes in.....
Price: $150.00
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
1950s Americana,Kitsch,Gender Roles
United States: 1950s. Original photograph of a delightfully kitschy display of Western or cowboy-style clothing, "Boys' Corral", complete with cowboy boots, hats, and accessories. Note the cartoonish cowboy and horse figurines dotting the straw display in the glass case, and the lamp made from a cowboy boot. Photographed by commercial.....
Price: $100.00
animals in art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. 28 unnumbered pages. Yellow applied printed cover with matching dust jacket, black and white photographs throughout. William is a blue hippopotamus that lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He takes the reader around to show off his friends, other art animals. There is.....
Price: $20.00
Nannies and Nurses,Drawings by Children,Drawing Family
Ocean Grove, New Jersey: 1900. A charming children's drawing of a nurse taking her young charge for a walk in a pram, offered together with original photographs of both. The drawing has been helpfully captioned in ink by an adult: "Allen Anderson and his nurse Alice Sennel drawn and colored.....
Price: $150.00
Poetry, Manuscript
1870s-1880s. A grouping of materials related to Whittier. The first is a cabinet card with Whittier's signature at base. The second is a 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" page from an autograph album with what seems to be an original verse penned and signed by John G. Whittier, Amesbury 1878.....
Price: $500.00
silk screen prints] [abstract art] [
New York City: Tiber Press, 1954. Large folio with title page and thirteen silk screen prints by Tobias Schneebaum tipped on to heavy card stock with printed text by Vance Bourjaily at base. Loose pages housed in red printed folio, no. 250 of 1500, not signed, vibrant colored abstract illustrations.....
Price: $225.00
Photography and Portraiture, Family photography
1910s. Two photographs notable for their unusually tall rectangular shape. The subjects are a young woman named Earla Viola Steade Rowley and her mother. Each measures roughly 14.25" by 4", and details to the images have been added with watercolor and light pencil. They are signed in pencil by Vreeland.....
Price: $250.00