Advertising & Promotion
Hotels, Travel and Tourism, Advertising and Promotion,
Bay City, MI: The Gregory Press. Embossed illustrated wraps. 16 pp. In-text, full page and centerfold illustrations. Tasteful geometric boarder decoration. The text describes and promotes the hotel utilizing relevant interior images. The centerfold shows the lobby. Boasts being one of the finest hotels. Measures 7.5" by 5" The hotel's.....
Price: $225.00
Massachusetts Mutual Calendar, Chromolithograph, Longfellow, Holems, Whittier, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines, documents, correspondence
A six (6) page chromolithograph calendar for 1896 for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Springfield Mass. Forbes Litho Mfg. Co. Boston. Each of the 9" x 11" heavy card stock pages has a poet as a theme with a center illustration reflecting a major work. The first page is Longfellow.....
Price: $250.00
Family Medicine, Self-Help, Marketing, Radio
United States: 1930s. A small gathering of advertising materials seemingly collected by one woman, "Mae Fenton", in the 1930s. A valuable snapshot of what kinds of marketing appealed to the average American white woman at this time. Most include references to a 1930s radio show, "The Voice of Experience", which.....
Price: $275.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Beauty,Hairdressing and Hair Salons,Material Culture,Vinyl,Bakelite,Laminate,20th Century Interior Decor
United States: c.1960. A collection of approx. fifteen (15) trade catalogs and price lists advertising beauty salon furniture, supplies, and equipment in 1960, with samples of material. Housed in or alongside an original branded binder from the salon equipment provider Romito-Donnelly of Ravenna, Ohio; other makers include Belvedere Products Inc......
Price: $650.00
Advertising Contraceptives and Family Planning Products,1960s Sexual Revolution
Chicago, Illinois: Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., 1965. A brightly illustrated advertising leaflet for products by Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., with a focus on contraceptives. Includes several brands of prophylactics/condoms and a brand of numbing lubricant for men. Note the "Federal Fun Specials" on the back, which include novelty gifts such.....
Price: $325.00
Original Art, Folk Art, Advertising, Ink
c1890. Two different 14 1/4" x 7 1/2" hand drawn and decorated promotional pieces for The "Superior Glossy Inks" . Each with a naive scene of water with sailboats and an island in the back ground. Both with identical text beginning with "To all persons who appreciate "Nice Inks" .......
Price: $225.00
Advertising, Anthropomorphism, California Fruit, Stereotyping
[1925]. Three (3) different 8.5" by 6" die-cut side easel anthropomorphic caricatures representing different fruits. They are Lily Lemon, California Cowgirl - She swings a mean rope at the PURE GOLD Rancho Lemons...PURE GOLD...from California. Ozzie Orange, California Cowman - He rides bad horses at the PURE GOLD Rancho. Oranges...PURE.....
Price: $500.00
Fabric Swatch,
New York: Bedford Mills, 1920s. 3 single-fold cards with fabric swatches or sampled of various types of fine weave cotton. The larger two are from Bedford Mills and include 35-36 Inch Turin printed Dimity (2009) and 34-40 Inch Orduna Viole Printed (3019), each with a 12" x 7 1/2" sample.....
Price: $175.00
medicine, patent medicine, advertising, illustration art, Leonetto Cappiell
Paris: Le Thermogene, c1900. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that was meant to help with a variety of ailments such as coughing, bronchitis, flue, sore throat, colds, joint pains, and rheumatism. The product was a heating pad that was composed of.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising, Asphalt, Columbus Buggy, Corsets, Typewriting
1880s. Four (4) different die-cut advertising pieces; each in the shape of the product it is advertising. They include a two sided house with asphalt shingles; H.M. Reynolds Asphalt Shingle Co. Grand Rapids, MI, a trade card in the shape of a buggy with a balloon attached promoting Columbus Buggy.....
Price: $250.00
Metamorphic, Advertising, Trade Cards, Tobacco
United States: 1870s-1880s. A grouping of seven (7) metamorphic cards advertising tobacco produced by: Allen's; Blackwell's; D.H. McAlpin & Co.; Jackson's Best; Rail Road Mills; and A.S. Rosenbaum & Co. The advertising gimmick of metamorphic cards was an effective and common one for tobacco products in the late nineteenth century.....
Price: $425.00
Hardware,Mouse Traps
Abingdon, Illinois: Abingdon Trap Company, 1900. Illustrated circular and sales letter on company billhead advertising mouse traps sold by the Abingdon Trap Co. Specifically promotes the "Diamond Joe Mouse and Rat Traps" line of products. Includes a photo of the traps in the box, as well as before and after.....
Price: $150.00
Interior Design
New York, New York: The McCabe Hanger Manufacturing Co., 1890s. Trade catalogue for the McCabe Hanger Manufacturing Co., advertising their Accordion or Folding Door Hanger system. Includes a blueprint-style illustration of how the system works, as well as two illustrations of the finished folding doors in open and closed position.....
Price: $225.00
Vending Machines,Material Culture,Gum balls and Fortunes
Chicago, Illinois: Advance Machine Co., c.1930. Catalogue No. 38 for the Advance Machine Co., makers of Advance Vending Machines made to dispense everything from Books, Candy, Fortunes, and Golf Balls, to Toys, Peanuts, Cigarettes, and even "Electricity" (though we are not sure how this one works). Includes illustrations of forty-five.....
Price: $325.00
music, music teacher, choir, singing, advertise
Boston, MA: G. W. Dudley, September 1875. A single page advertisement for singing and voice lessons taught by George. W. Dudley. He offered 20 lessons at $60 or 10 lessons for $35 with half the tuition due at the time of the first lesson. Dudley was a member of the.....
Price: $95.00
Mobile Homes, Do-It-Yourself
Saginaw, Michigan: Mershon & Morley, 1900. Printed bifolium advertisement (8.5" by 5.5") for "Portable Houses" produced by Mershon & Morley of Saginaw, Michigan. First leaf features a printed testimonial letter from a happy customer, promoting the ease of the structure's assembly; the second leaf features an illustration of the fully.....
Price: $115.00
Industry, Business, Industrial Exposition
A 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" show card for the exposition featuring the exterior of the building with vignettes of the interior. Reverse is blank. The Institute's building on Huntington Avenue is shown in this advertisement for the 1883 American Exposition.
Price: $65.00
Community Church Of the Air, Swalm Brothers Quartette, radio, music, advertising, religion
Harrisburg, PA: Community Church Of the Air, [February 1933]. This flyer is for three different musical groups: the Community Church of the Air, The Swalm Brothers Quartette, and the Boys Orchestra. However the flyer supplies little information beyond the performers names and the black and white printed photograph of each.....
Price: $65.00
Domestic Work, Advertising to Women
Big Prairie, Ohio: The Monitor Sad Iron Co., c1910. "Save half the time, half the labor and all the worry of ironing day with the Improved Monitor Self-Heating Sad Iron", manufactured by The Monitor Sad Iron Co. Marketed towards homemakers and and domestic workers, this illustrated advertising bifolium includes a......
Price: $95.00
Patent medicines, Quack medicines
New York: M.J. Breitenbach Co., c.1900. Advertising booklet for an iron- and manganese-based patent medicine, Gude's Pepto-Mangan, beginning with sweeping statements about the history of medicine: "Ever since the art of medicine emerged from its chrysalis stage of mysticism, mummery and moonshine, iron in some form has been administered .......
Price: $125.00
Typography, Broadsides, Land Development
Charleston, South Carolina: Consumers Coal Company, 1890s. Printed broadside advertising large swaths of farm land for sale in South Carolina by Consumers Coal Company, with a quirky typographical inclusion: the word "coal" has been designed out of small coal-like black shapes. Prices for parcels ranged from $2 to $25 per.....
Price: $150.00
printer, printing, printer samples. dairy, advertising, advertisement
New York: McTee & Co Inc, 1929. The Advertising Campaign Portfolio was produced by McTee & Company Inc for Glendale Milk in 1929. McTee & Company was New York based advertising firm run by John Bevans, a novelist poet and advertising man, who produced ads that both “that tell your.....
Price: $225.00
Americana, Evangelism, Lectures
[Brooklyn, New York]: J.C.. Stevens, 1917. Advertising card for a free lecture by evangelist J.C.. Stevens given in Brooklyn on August 5th, 1917, "At the Tent". J.C.. Stevens evangelized in the late 1910s, offering free public lectures with titles such as "Is the Great War the Last the World Will.....
Price: $150.00
Hydropathy,Homeopathy,Healing Waters,Medical Tourism,19th Century Medicine
Waterford, Maine: [Hydropathic Establishment at Waterford], 1849. Advertising circular for a Waterford, Maine "Water-Cure Establishment" that treated a host of patient afflictions with "Hydropathy", or healing waters: "The world is already indebted to Homeopathy for a better system of practice, and for exposing to common daylight the uncertainties of medicine.....
Price: $425.00