Fraternal
Whimsy, Fantasy, Printing
Orange NJ: Orange Volksbot Print, 1884. A 4 1/2" x 7" heavy stock used (end removed) ticket for the Orange Maennerchor Grand Masquerade Ball, held at Library Hall, Main Street. Ticket price was $1.00. The illustration is a playful scene with reveling masked gents behind a giant mask being ticket.....
Price: $350.00
boating and rowing club, menu
The Pacific Association of Amateur Oarsmen Exposition Banquet took place on March 13, 1915. The program lists directors and divisions of the club, the presentation of the Henry C. Peterson Perpetual Challenge Trophy, the menu, Toasts, and Songs. The Menu includes Oysters, Soup, Salad, Hors D'oeuvres, fish, entrees, vegetables, roast.....
Price: $85.00
parade, costume, photograph, jeweler, wagon, advertisement, fraternal
Newville, PA: Elias Alexander Bloser, [1890]. A black and white photograph of a large group of mostly men and young boys standing in front of E. A. Bloser Wholesale and Retail Jeweler store. In the center is a wagon with the stores name in front, with men in bizarre costumes.....
Price: $150.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, October 29, 1860. A program for a recital to celebrated the second anniversary of the Bureau Society at the Ladoga Female Seminary. The program lists the essays given by the members, some of which were entitled "Wonders of the Deep", "Night in Eden" and "Let.....
Price: $75.00
Programme, Linnaean Literary Society,
1880. 16" x 16 1/4" linen napkin with a 6" x 3 1/2" program printed on one section. It is for Monday Evening, June 21, 1880, Exercises begin at 6 o'clock PM. The program begins with music and is follows each speaking presentation. Some discoloration and toning. Scio College was.....
Price: $125.00
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
Trade Association, Road Makers Congress, Menu
American Road Makers' Association, 10-Feb-04. The banquet was given by the Hartford Citizen's for the Road Makers Congress, which was an annual convention held by the American Road Makers' Association (ARMA) with the goal of promoting the means to make 'good roads' through design and construction methods. The item is.....
Price: $150.00
Menu, Trade Organization, Social History, Printing and Publishing
Philadelpia: Ashmead, Printer, 1857. A 8 1/2" x 6" printed on silk for an event held at La Pierre House, Ward & Brothers, Prop'rs. June 25th, 1857. Elaborate menu with 11 courses. The Side Dishes course had 12 different dishes including Pigeons innocents, aux Olives tournes and Petits Pates, garni.....
Price: $400.00
Veteran association, menus
Paper menu bound with string and tassel for the annual dinner of the Veteran Association. The menu dated January 10, 1883 includes the Officers, Executive Committee, Order of events, menu, and words for the sixteenth annual reunion song. The Veteran Association of the Hartford City Guard was organized on November.....
Price: $50.00
Social History, Historical Memorabilia, Menus
A collection of menus and related materials for 55 dining events including associated relevant collateral materials totaling approximately 100 pieces. Who’s who of New York’s business elite from the turn of the century thought the onset of the Depression. Events held at the most prestigious organizations and establishments.....
Price: $3,500.00
Souvenirs, Tammany Hall, Inaugurations, New York City Politics, Political Machines
New York, New York: J.W. McDonald & Co., 1893. Illustrated souvenir of the second inauguration of Grover Cleveland on March 4th, 1893, published by Tammany Hall. Also known as the Tammany Society, the organization was funded by political patrons in New York City and had infamous control over the New.....
Price: $325.00
Invitation, Fraternal Organization, Society of Cincinnati
Buffalo & Cincinnati: Cosack & Co., 1885. Titled "Edictum Non-Nobis Solum" - Order of Cincinnatus militia invitation for September 15-17, 1885; the third annual celebration of "our order". annual - seal is marked 1882. Litho with fraternal imagery and decorative elements. Deckled edges. Measures 14 1/2" x 10". Reverse is.....
Price: $125.00
travel journal, travel, scrap album, transportation, printing, stationary
1930-1940s. A unique scrap travel book compiled by an unknown person with each page filled will snippets from letterheads from hotels presumably visited by the journaler. These pieces of the letterhead have been cut out and pasted into the album and there is a range of a singe (larger) piece.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,4-H Clubs,Victory Gardens,Teenagers and the War Effort,Homefront Activities
Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture, c.1944. "Your chance to serve": two (2) pamphlets published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for young people, promoting 4-H Clubs as way of supporting the war effort on the homefront. Both affiliated with University of Maryland. They include: "America Calls All 4-H Clubs".....
Price: $250.00
Women's Organizations,Political Education and Engagement
Dallas, Texas: National Association of Pro America, c.1940. A 1930s pamphlet promoting the Dallas Chapter of the "Pro-America", a "national volunteer educational organization for women, dedicated to the preservation of the Constitution ... It includes in its membership Republicans, Constitutional Democrats and women who have never before been interested in.....
Price: $175.00
menu, program, engineer, Cornell, satire, Keuffel & Esser Co.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 14-Mar-14. A menu and program for the Eleventh Annual Banquet of the Association of Civil Engineers at Cornell University. The banquet took place on Saturday Evening, March 14, 1914 in the A. G. Cafeteria on campus. The illustrations on the menu are humorous, with the cover.....
Price: $115.00
coil and static club, medicine, electro-therapeutics, science & technology
New York, NY: [1900]. A single-fold brochure announcement of a medical society Monell was forming, called the Coil and Static Club, whose purpose was to "carry out a practical plan for keeping an up-to-date revision of clinical methods and new work constantly at the command of all physicians who use.....
Price: $85.00
Temperance,Serials,History of Alcohol and Society
Albany, New York: Temperance Recorder, October 1837-July 1842. A partial run of the Temperance Recorder, including the following twelve (12) issues: Vol. VI, No. 8; Vol. X, Nos. 6-9, 11-12; and Vol. XI, Nos. 1-5. The Temperance Recorder was founded in the early 1830s by the New York State Temperance.....
Price: $325.00
dinner, menu, alumni, science, humor
Brooklyn, NY: February 26,1892. A menu from the 30th Annual Dinner of the Polytechnic Alumni Association of the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. The menu itself is rather humorous, with each dish containing scientific names and chemical formulas for the attendees to decipher in order to known what they were.....
Price: $200.00
confederate, south, american civil war, military
Richmond, VA: May 1876. The Southern Historical Society was founded in 1868-1869 by Confederate Major General Dabney Herndon Maury as a means of documenting Southern military and civilian viewpoints of the American Civil War. It consisted of articles written by Southern Soldiers, officers, politicians and civilians. In the late 1800s.....
Price: $85.00
politics, democratic party, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, elections
Chicago, IL: Hickory Elm Club, 1900. The Hickory Elm Club was a Democratic Political Party social club where important individuals met to discuss the politics of the day. It starts with a brief history of the club, and then continues with several arguments distancing the the current Democratic candidate from.....
Price: $125.00