Business History
advertising, entertainment
New York, NY: Automatic Ticket Selling & Cash Register Company, [1920]. An advertising booklet for the Automaticket, an ticket machine...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $95.00