Advertising & Promotion
Advertising & Promotion, Advertising to Children, Patent Medicine, J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass: J. C Ayer & Co., 1880s. Four (4) different miniature stand-up die-cuts of various Ayre's products. The image of the box on front and product advertising--essentially miniature trade cards that could have been displayed on a toy store or dollhouse shelf. Scarce items. The largest is 2 1/2".....
Price: $125.00
Schools for Girls,Private Schools,Upper-class Education
New York City: Miss Bangs and Miss Whiton's School for Girls, 1916. An extensive and finely produced catalogue promoting Miss Bangs and Miss Whiton's School for Girls, a private school for the daughters of New York's well-to-do. Located in Riverdale-on-Hudson, the School boasted references including The Hon. and Mrs. Theodore.....
Price: $225.00
Art Calendars
Joliet, Illinois: The Garlach-Barklow Co., 1912. Illustrated trade catalogue promoting the 1912 line of art calendars published by the Garlach-Barklow Co. of Joliet, Illinois. Distributed chiefly to stationers, it shows dozens of products newly designed for the 1912 season, offering consumers high art at a low price. Single vol. (8".....
Price: $150.00
circular, advertising, patent, advertisement, industry, engineering
St. Louis, MO: Ripley & Kimball, Agents, [1881-1887]. A circular for the Montgomery Patent Gauge Cock, which is a mechanism on a boiler that helps to determine and relieve the steam/water pressure in a boiler. This flyer has a fine color illustration of the actual gauge cock on the top.....
Price: $110.00
Die-cut Pamphlet, Evans & Co., Treatments and Remedies
Liverpool, England: Evans, Sons & Co., c.1900. Chromolithographed die-cut pamphlet in the shape of a bottle, advertising Montserrat Lime-Fruit Juice, "A most delightful, healthful, and economical beverage for any season. Lime-Fruit Juice is beneficial in all cases of gout, rheumatism, and blood impurity, also dyspepsia. Guaranteed free from alcohol" (back).....
Price: $125.00
medicine, paper doll, advertising directed a children
Chicago: J. B. Carroll Co, c1900. Two pieces of advertising materials for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. The first item is a 16 pp (including covers) booklet advertising Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, as well as other products sold by the manufacturer, including Mother Gray's Aromatic Leaf (a.....
Price: $110.00
Advertising to Children, Gender Roles, Promotional Brochure
Minneapolis, MN: Munsingwear, c1917. An uncut 7 fold concertina style flyer with color photographic images of people depicted in their underwear as paper dolls ,each adult with one costume, the children have two each. The costumes closely reflect traditional gender roles --the boys play baseball and "Indians" and the girls.....
Price: $75.00
Women's Health, Patent Medicines, Advertising, Misogyny, Misinformation, Childbirth and Pregnancy
Buffalo, New York: Dr. J.H. Dye Medical Institute, 1899. A booklet advertising Dr. J.H. Dye's Mitchella Compound, a patent medicine that claims to cure diseases specific to women and promote painless childbirth. Marketed towards women, it begins with the ten-page "Story of Mrs. Dare", which is soaked in sentiment and.....
Price: $125.00
advertising, medicine, corn remover, foreign language, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Washington, DC: Criswell Chemical Company, [1916]. The "National Corn Remover" worked on corns, warts, and calluses, and was as "simple as court plaster" to use. The corn remover was essentially a treated plaster bandage that one applied to the corn after soaking it in warm water. Included is the remover.....
Price: $75.00
Medicinal Waters,Health and Wellness Tourism,Spring Water
Saratoga Springs, New York: The Saratoga Champion Spring, 1890s. Two (2) illustrated handbills promoting the natural mineral water from the Saratoga Champion Spring, marketing it as a natural treatment for afflictions ranging from constipation and dyspepsia to kidney disease and malaria. Appeals to health and wellness tourists, as well as.....
Price: $225.00
social welfare, charity, school, social clubs, community
Curtis Bay, MD: The Neighborhood House, 1916. 10 pages (including covers) staple brochure printed for the Neighborhood House in an effort to help generate funds for the charity. Founding in 1906 the goal of the Neighborhood house was to support the community of Curtis Bay by providing school and social.....
Price: $55.00
Music and Arts Camps, Music Education, History of Maine
Oakland, Maine: New England Music Camp, 1939-1955. A grouping of ephemera related to the New England Music Camp spanning the years 1939 and 1955, including five (5) printed programs (each approx. 6.25" by 4") and one (1) photographically illustrated advertising brochure (9" by 6", pp. [12], in original printed wrappers).....
Price: $175.00
printing, engraving, sample, advertisement business history
Chicago, IL: Wm. R. Cardy Co, [1930]. Wm. R. Cardy Co. was a printing company owned by William Robert Cardy (1872-1933), that was located in Chicago and also did embossing, engraving and binding. This brochure is advertising a new location and change of business name. Cardy had had a partner.....
Price: $125.00
Playing cards, Whist, Movable Paper, De La Rue
London: De La Rue, c1850. An interesting take on the whist counter. Consists of four (4) die-cut pieces. Two back to back slides of diamonds and spades with two octagonal pieces that also move to mark the specific card. Each piece slides independently. Each slide marked De Le Rue &.....
Price: $325.00
Skunk, Trade and Commerce, Business History
New York, NY: Belt, Butler & Co., Feb. 14, 1889. A 3 1/4" x 5 5/8" notification card printed on heavy stock, titled "SKUNK". It is a notification to traders regarding the recent heavy receipts and the inferior quality of most of the Skunk sent advising that prices will particularly.....
Price: $50.00
Steam Power,Factories Manufactories and Machine Shops
Providence, Rhode Island: 1846. Printed circular announcing improvements to "ready made belts" for machinists and manufacturers, tauting new steam power technology: "These belts are made from the best Oak-tanned Philadelphia Slaughter Leather. In the dressing of them, steam power is employed, and an entirely new method adopted, by which the.....
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 Anvil as it appeared at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876". The "Old Anvil" was "the first Saw Makers' Anvil brought to this Country. It has been used and.....
Price: $100.00
Typographer, Printing and Publishing
Chicago, IL: Viking's Head Studio, 1900. An 11" x 8 3/4" heavy card stock lithograph calendar for P. C. Darrow Typography specializing in booklets and color printing. The bold imagery depicts two men setting type with the tools of the trade at hand. Partial calendar pad affixed. Grommet hangar at.....
Price: $850.00
Gold Leaf, Metal Leaf, Printing and Publishing, Design
New York: Baer Brothers, [1900]. A polished stock wrapper complete with content of fine Metal Leaf Bronze powder. The package boasts "With the Finish Smooth and Bright Just Like Gold Leaf" Instructions for use printed on wrapper. Printed in gold on green paper. Also includes a W. H. Kemp Co's.....
Price: $550.00
Efficiency in the Workplace,Rubber Stamps and Seal Presses
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Peiffer Brothers, 1890s? Trade catalogue advertising products sold by the engravers Peiffer Brothers of Philadelphia, including seal presses, stencils, rubber stamps, and other stationary and office supplies. Includes illustrations of the product and the impression as well as pricing and, in the case of the stamps and numbering.....
Price: $225.00
advertising, entertainment
New York, NY: Automatic Ticket Selling & Cash Register Company, [1920]. An advertising booklet for the Automaticket, an ticket machine that allows business quickly sell the tickets while also keeping track of each ticket sold. The company sold each machine "with a 100% efficiency pledge" and it asserts that it.....
Price: $150.00
Perpetual Calendar, Advertising Continental Insurance
New York: Ferris & Brown, 1866. An 11" x 10 3/4" ornately decorated perpetual calendar promoted by Continental Insurance Co. The design includes a double volvelle with a grommet at center. The smaller or green wheel is the days which are exposed through the day of the week holes. They.....
Price: $450.00
Stereoscopes, Optics, Paper with a Secret
New York, New York: W.T. Georgen Optician, c.1910. Illustrated tri-fold pamphlet advertising the Perspectoscope, a kind of stereoscope that purports to "Double the value of the Camera" and "make its pictures look like the real object" (i.e. three-dimensional). Includes a photo of a child looking through the scope exclaiming, "Oh.....
Price: $150.00
Film Stars and Stage Divas,Marketing to Women,Geraldine Farrar,Kittie Gordon,Beauty,Body Image,Cosmetics
Chicago, Illinois: Mrs. Gervaise Graham, c.1914. Photo-illustrated advertisement for products sold by Chicago cosmetics maven Mrs. Gervaise Graham, including hair dyes, dandruff remedy, soaps, rouges, and creams. Note the inclusion of face bleach to remove blemishes and lighten the skin, showing the beauty standards of the time. Each product is.....
Price: $250.00