Business History
patent, transfer, butter churn, dairy,
Syracuse, NY: July 23, 1861. A transfer of patent certificate for the Common Sense [Butter] Churn. The churn was invented by C. D. Van Allen and patented by him in July 1861 with an O.B. Cowles purchasing shares in it at that time. This certificate is represents when Van Allen.....
Price: $95.00
Advertising, Business Move, Women's Goods
Boston, Massachusetts: 1859. A small format broadside. C.W. Griffiths & Co. is announcing the growth of their business having leased a space that will allow them to expand their manufacturing. The larger area will allow them to not only continue with the goods they already make, but it also means.....
Price: $95.00
Printing and Publishing, Advertising, Tobacco
Philadelphia: Geo. S. Harris, 1844. An 11.75 by 8.25 inch chromolithograph 1884 calendar printed for D. M. Scofield & Son, Cigar Box Factory in Newburgh NY. Depicts an elegant woman amidst a bounty of roses and passion flowers with a bucolic scene featuring an apple tree in the background. A......
Price: $850.00
bathhouse, medicine, business history, correspondence, Sanitarium, homeopathic
Lowell, MA: September 26, 1849. Stampless post. A letter between two doctors, Dr. Bulter Wilmarth and Dr. John Hero that discussing the various patients at a local sanitarium in Lowell, MA, that Wilmarth is treating. There is also some talk about the possibility of the pair working together, either at.....
Price: $225.00
correspondence, medicine, Mississippi river, horse
Poplar, Mississippi: April 7, 1890. A two page letter from Howard G. Thornton, a physician and surgeon located in Poplar, MS. He is writing his younger brother, Ed, who lives in Commerce, TX, with their parents. Thornton describes a busy winter in Mississippi, with lots of sickness, and a rainy.....
Price: $75.00
Textile Industry, Business History, Woolen Manufacturing
Boston: J. H. Bufford's Lith. 1848. An 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" single-fold circular with testimonial insert sheet. The cover depicts a rendering of the machine manufactured at Ballard Vale, Mass for E. L. Benzon, 59 Milk Street, Boston. Content includes information on how to order, queries, directs and an.....
Price: $145.00
Penmanship, Calligraphic Drawing
Concord, New Hampshire: National School of Business, c1900. Printed advertisement for E.L. Glick's National School of Business, with a striking visual: an engraved reproduction of a calligraphic drawing of a horse, made almost entirely of flourishes. Aside from being the proprietor of one of the most successful business schools of.....
Price: $275.00
Career Building,Retirement,Public Health
Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1960. A booklet "for busy executives" exploring "the psychological problems of life" following retirement from a fulfilling career. Part of a series on mental health for families and adults published by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. Includes cartoon illustrations of hypothetical.....
Price: $175.00
brochure, design, catalogue,
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Approx. 162, Illustrated with several color plates, of which some are tipped in, along with dozens of black & white illustrations. These graphic images are reproductions of the advertising work done in the 1920s. At the beginning of the book there are three separate.....
Price: $200.00
merchant, commission merchant, business, goods, flour, wood
New York: 1859. A letter written by Frank Hiram Crosby, most likely a commission merchant, in New York. It is unclear who he is writing to, but in the letter he discusses the price of flour he purchased, three to five cents per pound, and the sale of wood. He.....
Price: $125.00
Advertising and Promotion, Trade card, Jeweler's tag, Jewelry
New York: 1878. A group of ephemera including a manuscript letter with corresponding advertising cover to a colleague regarding the designs of chains and "drops". An engraved business card for Church's gold chains. Finally, includes are two (2) style of tags (six total) o affix to the chains warranting every.....
Price: $150.00
catalogue, memorial, funeral, memorial cards, death, funeral business
Leipsic, OH: 1920. A catalogue for H. F. Wendell, located in Leipsic, Ohio, who claimed to be the largest memorial house on earth. This catalogue focuses on memorial cards shows 9 photomechanical prints of some of the styles offered by H. F. Wendell. Each of these prints come with a......
Price: $175.00
periodical, German
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1887. 186 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations and plates. XIX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" wear on cover,
Price: $35.00
Horses, Wagons, Sleighs, Public Auction, Livery
Amsterdam, NY: Recorder Print, 1911. A 38" x 24 1/2" broadside promoting an Public Sale of Fine Livery and Trucking Equipment. Printed in black with red accent. Includes 50 Horses - Matched Coach Pairs, Surrey and Pleasure Teams, Farm and Business Horses, Saddle Horses and many others. 60 Wagons including.....
Price: $175.00
conduct of life, success, boys, gender roles, business, miniature book, chap book
Boston: D Lothrop & Co, 1886. 16 pp, red paper covers. An advise book for young boys hoping to succeed in business. The book is broken up into categories: One thing at a time, the way to win (all on one page), the things explained, and hard to understand. On.....
Price: $30.00
Sacramento City and County, Agriculture, Sacramento Bee,
Sacramento, CA: H. S. Crocker Co., 1894. 196pp. Soft covers. Cover and title page illustrations by S.F. Photo Eng. Co. Large format book with images from photographs throughout both in-text and full page. Fold-out 22" x 18" agricultural map showing uses of the soil in 1894. Crops included Orchards, Vineyards.....
Price: $275.00
new york, lawyer, legal, Utah Territory, genealogy, real estate, Panama, war claims, Francis B Loomis, Guzman Blanco
New York, NY: 1857 - 1914. "The personnel and business archives of John Ewing Risley (1840 – 1912) a prominent New York lawyer, businessman, and real estate mogul, comprised of over 2300 letters and documents. A brief summary of each section follows. For the complete description contact us. Spreadsheets detailing.....
Price: $4,200.00
Real Estate, Land Development, History of Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York: c1911. A window into the ever-shifting built landscape in Brooklyn, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century: an illustrated circular advertising the sale of a large building at the southwest corner of Schenectady Avenue and Herkimer Street in Stuyvesant Heights, circa 1911, owned by.....
Price: $135.00
business history, agricultural, ledger, farming, animals
Ashby, MA: 1846-1873. A collection of three farming ledgers belonging to Lewis Wetherbee, a farmer in Ashby, MA. The first is an 'Egg Ledger' and dates from 1846-1873. It begins with a list of items bought by Wetherbee for his family and farm. The list only continues until early 1847.....
Price: $325.00
Broadside, Cider Mill
Cheshire CT: 1837. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan Both, 1837. A 4" x 5 1/4" woodcut of the horse powered device and the horse. Designed after the Box Coffee Mill for the purpose of grinding Apples into Pumice.....
Price: $800.00
swim, water, swim wear, bathing suit
Portland, OR: Jantzen Knitting Mills, 1933. A how-to guide for how to run a 'Learn to Swim' Campaign produced by Jantzen, a swim wear company founded in 1916 in Portland, OR. A 'Learn to Swim' Campaign was geared to helping individuals regards of age or gender learn how to swim.....
Price: $65.00
Horace Brigham Claflin, dry good, merchant, memoriam
New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving of New York, 1885 - 1886. Two items advertising the memorial of Horace Brigham Claflin who was an American merchant who founded the Bulkley & Claflin Company (later after Claflin's death it became known as H. B. Claflin Company). Over the years this bank.....
Price: $100.00
billheads and letterheads, corn husking, business history, agricultural
Shenandoah, IA: Corn Husking Supplies, 7-Oct-07. A receipt from Corn Husking Supplies in Shenandoah, IA on the company's official billhead. Corn Husking Supplies was owned by R. N. Thomas selling a variety of tools and supplies necessary for corn husking. A large portion of the tools he provided were designed.....
Price: $65.00
stout, sports, beer, guinness, advertising, marketing, poetry, poem , verse, humor
Dublin: Guinness, 1950s. A humorous and colorful advertising booklet for Guinness Stout. The booklet contains a series of illustrations featuring people doing different sports activities in late Victorian/ Edwardian dress. The activities has been organized by month, so for example, in January the figures are ice skating and in September.....
Price: $125.00