Ethnic/Cultural History
African American, Fraternal, Get Rich Quick
New York City. A 2 1/2" x 4" business card for Days Work -- of all Kinds, by Trained Workers - Laundresses, Cleaners, Seamstresses, Cooks Etc. Reverse is blank. Surface wear. According to the Christadelphia Advocate the exchange was part of a get rich quick scheme. In 1906, the Christadelphia.....
Price: $32.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Chinese-American Cuisine,East Meets West,International Relations Through Food
Washington, D.C. Chinese Lantern Cafe, c.1930. A menu for the Washington, D.C. "Chinese Lantern Cafe", featuring over 250 dishes and spirits, complete with and including text in both Chinese and English. Printed in red white and blue, the menu aims to marry both East and West: " The management of.....
Price: $200.00
Racism, Stereotyping, Black, Advertising
1880s-1890s. This collection of mostly 19th century advertising trade cards and labels is a representative sample of the demeaning and insulting portrayals used in advertising. It demonstrates extreme stereotyping, racism and satirizing of appearance, speech and actions. It includes portrayals of minstrels, field workers, cooks, philanderers, individuals without proper shoes.....
Price: $5,500.00
Japonism, Advertising and Promotion, Broadside, Fancy Goods
Boston: A. Stowell & Co., [1870s]. A 10 1/2" x 9 1/2" rice paper broadside with an illustration of toads among the bamboo reeds as a heron flies overhead. It is captioned Holiday Goods and titled "Some of Our Inducements for the Holidays". Followed by a list of various novelty.....
Price: $375.00
program, ball, the pilgrimage
Natchez, Mississippi: Natchez Garden Club, 1936. Single-fold program for the Confederate Ball, a pageant put on by the Natchez Garden Club in Natchez, Mississippi. Since 1932 the garden club has done a fall and spring pilgrimage, where owners of historic homes in the area open their homes for guided tours.....
Price: $95.00
Song Sheet, Monograph, Social History, Crinoline, Discrimination
Digbeth, Birmingham, UK: W. Pratt, c859. Woodcut of a well dressed yet sizable woman obviously wearing crinoline beneath her dress. Yet another parody on the oft maligned crinoline, but worse yet discrimination as it relates to size.. The chorus reads What dresses now the ladies have, It really is surprising.....
Price: $200.00
Swabia, German History and Culture
Berlin: Ed. Buttner & Co. A miraculously intact, full sheet of German language embossed, die-cut hinged Victorian scrap sheet, featuring nine charming separate scenes depicting the humorous story of "The Seven Swabians". Attached to the verso is a printed sheet telling the full story, printed on both recto and verso.....
Price: $120.00
Paper Dolls, Culture and Ethnicity, Social History, Pretend Play
c1840s. A set including two (2) single-sided 6 3/4" female paper dolls and eight (8) costumes depicting regional variances from various nations in Europe. Each of the costumes is lithograph with an egg wash finish. Also includes a 6" x 8 1/2" sheet depicting all eight costumes, again with egg.....
Price: $1,400.00
Immigration,Assimilation,American Citizenship
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, c.1925. "Make America your country as well as your home": a printed guide from Met Life Insurance on how to complete the first steps of obtaining U.S. citizenship (i.e. naturalization), part of its "Aids to Citizenship Series". Features Lady Liberty on the.....
Price: $200.00
Black Interest, Black Americana, coloring book
Topeka Kansas: Capper Publications, Inc., 1941. 21 pp black and white with gray cover unused coloring story book. Stereotypical imagery Black American imagery, illustrated by Dorothy Wagstaff. Measures 11" x 8 1/2". Unused.
Price: $115.00
Dance Cards,German Heritage and Identity,Balls and Masquerades
[Mystic, Connecticut]: Social Society Frohsinn, 1911. Chromolithographed dance card for a February, 1911 masked ball hosted by a German heritage club, complete with attached miniature pencil and featuring an attractive embossed chromolithographed image of a masked woman on the front. Most likely the Frohsinn Hall in Mystic, Connecticut, which was.....
Price: $125.00
Paper Doll Greeting Cards,Travel,Traditional Dress,International Friendship, Gender Roles
United States: c.1930. A scarce intact example of a paper doll greeting card from c.1930, with a cut paper doll of a little girl who can be dressed up in two different outfits and inserted into the front of the card to show her driving. The two different outfits are.....
Price: $125.00
Penny Magazine,Serials,Shield of Achilles,Homer,Ornithology,Whig,British Politics,Rubber,Anthropology,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
London, England: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832. The British Whig MP Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), is credited with forming The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1826 to promote scientific and artistic ideas, and highlight achievements of Western civilization. The Penny.....
Price: $100.00
International Friendship,Tolerance Through Play
United States: N.G.Y., 1910s. A scarce grouping of twelve (12) uncut paper dolls, each of a different nationality and performing its own "native dance" and encouraging international friendship and tolerance. Each doll has at least two outfits that slip over their heads with accessories and hats. All are girls, and.....
Price: $300.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Muscogee Nation,Native Americans,Oklahoma
United States: c.1903. Two (2) items documenting the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's relation to the federal government at the turn of the century. The first item is a printed record of the allotment patent signed by P. Porter, Principal Chief of the Muskogee Nation, in 1903 (8.5" by 8"). The second.....
Price: $200.00
Advertising Trade Card, Uncle Tom's Cabin, African American Vernacular, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Five Points NY: Donaldson Brothers. A 5" x 3 1/4" advertising trade card promoting Uncle Tom's Cabin Smokin Tobacco, manufactured by Wellman & Dwire, Quincy, Ill. Depicts characters from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Eva is holding a plug of tobacco while seated on Uncle Tom's shoulder. It.....
Price: $100.00
Cowboys and Indians, Ethnicity and Culture
The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., [1950s]. A 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" pressed board box with applied litho with images of "Indians and Cowboys" in traditional attire on the box top and side aprons. Includes 8 uncut sheets with 60 pieces of Native American in traditional attire presented in.....
Price: $100.00
racism, racial sterrotypes, shoe, shoe polish, advertisement, advertising
1940s. A 21" x 11" sign advertising shoe polish. The graphic sign is emblazoned with the quotes "For all shoes" and "Easy to Use". Its bold graphics highlight the "2 in 1" using a variety of red, black, and grey. The polish boasts the capabilities to be used on all.....
Price: $375.00
Cookbooks and recipes, Children, World, Foods of the World, Regional Cookbook
United States: Phillips Publishers, Inc., 1951. A most charming cookbook of recipes from around the world, beautifully illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson. The decoration appears to have children in mind. The cookbook, which is described as being "Tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife" named Heloise Frost, begins.....
Price: $225.00
periodical] [missions
Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1851. 16 pp. Green illustrated printed paper cover, monthly periodical, Vol. II, no 1 for January 1851, contains 2 illustrations. Inside cover lists ordering information and donations to Children's Educational Funds. Content titles include: The New Year, Julia the Heathen Girl, Hindoo.....
Price: $18.00
Indians, American Indian, horse, horses, cowboy, Indians of North America, Ranch life
Kansas City, MO: Tell Well Press, 1949. 29 pp. (unpaginated) children's book, tells the story of Danny Morgan, his cousin Melissa, and their friend Eagle, an Indian boy, as they solve the mystery of the phantom silver stallion. Called a "corking good story", it is chalk full of vibrantly colored.....
Price: $20.00
Costume Party, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Ethnicity and Culture, Jenny Lind
New York: Sam'l Gabriel & Sons Co. No. D137, [1940s]. Two (2) 8" die-cut paper dolls; one blond, Phyllis and one brunette, Patricia. with wooden bases (one lacking). The costumes for Blond Phyllis include American Costume of 1860 - "Betsy Ann" American Costume - "Jenny Lind" Czechoslovak Costume "Magda" Chinese.....
Price: $150.00
dolls, costume
Oklahoma: The Crosby House, 1946. 32 pp. Blue hard cover, color and black and white illustrations, black and white illustrated end papers, each page has decorative borders, illustrations by Edith E. Buhler, part of the Idabell and Wakefield Adventures. Each section has a color illustration of a doll in a......
Price: $35.00
education, Italy, England, Ethiopia, scrap book
New Haven: 1936. Created by Chester Katzman, an eleven year old boy from New Haven, CT, this scrap book was a school assignment to record an imaginary European tour taken by the student. The book includes various short essays on what was seen, the history and agriculture of the countries.....
Price: $200.00