Business History
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
trade catalogue, shoe, shoes, fashion, vermont, lake champlain, footwear
Winooski, VT: Perfection Overgaiter Company, 1915. A trade catalogue for the Vermont-based company called Perfection Overgaiter Company which started out manufacturing overgaiters and leggings, but eventually producing all sorts of footwear. The company prided itself on the workmanship and high quality of their products, often making their shoes from leather.....
Price: $75.00
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
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
Medicinal Waters,Health and Wellness Tourism,Spring Water,Sanatariums and Institutes
South Poland, Maine: Hiram Ricker & Sons, 1908. An illustrated history of Poland Spring brand water, beginning with its "Discovery in 1845 as a Remedial Agent" and continuing until 1907 when the Poland Spring company erected a new "permanent Spring and Bottling House". Note the occasional references to "the days.....
Price: $250.00
circular patent, advertisement, industry, engineering, valves
St. Louis, MO: Ripley & Kimball, Agents, [1881-1887]. A single fold circular for a Straight-Way Valve made by the Pratt & Cady Company. These valves are meant for use in radiators, though whether they are meant for commercial or residential use is unclear. This new style of valves makes "them.....
Price: $95.00
Food, Food Pricing, Food as a Commodity,
United States: 1834-1935. The collection includes 83 food and associated commodities price lists, catalogs, ledgers, invoices, postal card advertisements and more. It spans a 100 year period and provides considerable information regarding the availability, distribution, price and pricing consideration of these commodities. The materials represent 40 different American markets, with.....
Price: $4,800.00
Transformation card, Humor, Fishing
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Betty's Sporting Goods, 1940s. Printed advertising card for Betty's Sporting Goods, including a changing face puzzle - what makes a person happy or sad and a tongue-in-cheek list of items with the heading "How to Live on $15.00 a Week", which includes whiskey, beer, midweek whiskey, and tobacco.....
Price: $85.00
printing & writing. business history
Manchester, NH: C. F. Livingston's Printing House, 1872. 78 pgs. Blue printed wrappers with gilt line border. This publication covers three meetings of the Publishers, Editors, and Printers Association of the State of New Hampshire. Their annual meeting on July 10, 1871, their annual meeting January 17, 1872, and their.....
Price: $150.00
Marketing to Families,Household Products,Lighting the Home Pre-Lightbulb
United States: 1890s. Illustrated advertising handbill for a chemical compound marketed to families, "Eureka", which claims to prevent the "breaking of chimneys, and makes kerosene oil as safe as a candle". Note that the company seeks sales people of either gender ("Agents Wanted, Men or Women") for what appears to.....
Price: $175.00
Advertising and Promotion, R.H. Macy, Department Store
New York: R. H. Macy & Co., 1890. 32pp. unnumbered. Illustrated cover with a young lad holding a promotional sign while leaning out a window in a brick wall. Foreign offices and manufacturers are printed on the several of the bricks. The inside cover shows a grid with groupings of.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising and Promotion, Automobilia, Popular Culture
Detroit, MI: Evans-Winter-Herb, 1930s. A tri-fold brochure promoting the wonders of modern mohair velvet upholstery for your new Chevrolet. Promotional points include New (no one has had Mohair Velvet upholstery in the past, Beautiful - for centuries people have admired velvet; now there is a new twist, Durability - includes.....
Price: $35.00
Puzzles in Advertising
Carrollton, Illinois: C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary, c.1900. A delightful puzzle and premium, printed on card and used to advertise C.E. Underwood's Bakery and Confectionary. The directions are as follows: "Place a penny (or any other small article) on any star, move it along a straight line to an opposite.....
Price: $110.00
Advertising and Promotion, Business History, Botany 500
Philadelphia: 1947-48. A visual narrative of this iconic brand name's sartorial influence during the halcyon period. The photographs were shot by an accomplished but unidentified commercial photographer whose skilled use of light renders the day-to-day operation and divisions of the company in stunning detail. Each photograph is captioned identifying the.....
Price: $850.00
circular, investing, patents, cash carriers, Get Rich Quick
Boston, MA: The Automatic Store Service Company, 1890. 4 leaves, staple bound document with brown paper cover with the company name printed on the back. Circular No. 2, printed following the success of the first. The product in question is Church Spring Actuated Cash or Parcel Carrier - parcel delivery;.....
Price: $75.00
Inventions,Manufacturing,Industrial Innovation and Growth
New York, New York: C. Henry Hall & Co., 1873. Illustrated circular advertising the Pulsometer, or Magic Pump, a "new and useful invention now being extensively and rapidly introduced for pumping water and other liquids" in mines, factories, railroads, docks, gas yards, and wells. Includes a diagram of the invention.....
Price: $200.00
shipping, boats, classifications, shipbuilding, ship registers
New York: American Shipmasters' Association, 1877. 48 pp. Textured paper wrappers. Gilt stamp. This book details the instructions for how to survey and classify a ship according to the rules provided by the American Shipmasters' Association. The book starts with a list of resolutions and recommendations of the NY Board.....
Price: $225.00
Bookbinding, Salesman Sample, History of the book.
Baltimore, MD & Chicago, IL: Baumgarteg & Company AND Banghart & Fischer, [September 13, 1915]. A resale company has has sent salesman sample pieces of book binding supplies to an art teach as noted in the correspondence below. The first item is a singular sample of "Russet Crepe" which has.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-RBMS-2023 , TinFoil, Sample book, Printing and Publishing
c1930. A scarce 7.5" x 5" bottom opening sample book for various grades of tin foil. Card wraps. The only indication of maker is a logo of a plumbed cap. Introductory page introduces the various uses for tin foil including tobacco, soap, candy, mouth of bottle, tea boxes and toilet.....
Price: $275.00
Body Image , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Rochester, New York: Cartilage Treatment Company, 1903. Booklet advertising a proprietary "cartilage treatment" that promises to make you taller: "If you are Stunted, if you want to grow Taller, if you desire to strengthen every fibre of the body, if you are knock-kneed or bow-legged, it is in your power.....
Price: $250.00
Metal Coatings, Recipes, Chemical Solutions
New York etal. Egyptian Lacquer Mfg Co., [1900]. A Set of 47 Process Cards with recipes and complete instructions to prepare chemical solutions of lacquers and finishes... This fan-out page 'book' offers a line of formulations for industrial users. Each card includes a description of the product followed by the.....
Price: $300.00
Children's Fashion,Department Stores,Advertising to Children,Paper Doll Books
[Rochester, New York]: Sibley's Department Store, c.1960. An uncut paper doll book for children that cleverly doubles as a catalog, advertising real children's clothes for sale at Sibley's department store in Rochester, New York. Includes three paper dolls to cut out from the upper cover (Sandy, Stephen, and Sally) ranging.....
Price: $225.00
Sketch Books, Note Books, History, Trade
England: c.1854. A pocket sketch book of an unidentified gentleman ("Daniel Davies"?) containing an eclectic and curious amalgamation of content: pencil sketches (a bull frog, a dog, local characters, a seaside castle, a farm); notes on recent trade, including gold being shipped from Melbourne to England; important dates of local.....
Price: $325.00
Columbian Exposition, souvenir catalogue, watch, advertising, business history
Philadelphia, PA: Keystone Watch Case Company, 1893. This item is the souvenir catalogue produced by the Keystone Watch Case Company for the World's Columbian Exposition, located in Chicago in 1893. The fair was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. The company sold.....
Price: $95.00