Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
note cards, illustration, ink drawing, landscapes,
Sweden: 1909. A collection of 23 small format cards featuring landscapes. The subject matter reflects nature in a particular locale throughout the year. It includes three (3) seasons of a sparsely treed country lane, an array of water scenes through the trees, just trees and just water. While contemplating the.....
Price: $1,100.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Textiles, American Fashion, Women's Work, Immigrants
United States: 1930s. Manuscript lesson plan book with fabric samples and buttons belonging to Elizabeth Zak, a student of a textile course. Divided into several "contracts" (i.e. classes) over five weeks, the course taught students to recognize materials, judge their quality and best uses, and understand their care. Zak's notes.....
Price: $650.00
Nannies and Nurses,Drawings by Children,Drawing Family
Ocean Grove, New Jersey: 1900. A charming children's drawing of a nurse taking her young charge for a walk in a pram, offered together with original photographs of both. The drawing has been helpfully captioned in ink by an adult: "Allen Anderson and his nurse Alice Sennel drawn and colored.....
Price: $150.00
President William McKinley, assassination, government, club, correspondence, drawing, capital dome, works by children
Chicago, IL: Washington Locating Club, [September 6-15, 1901]. A manuscript letter sent to President William McKinley by a children's club wishing him health and recovery after the assassination attempt on his life on September 6, 1901. The club was the "Washington Locating Club", which was located in Chicago. The children.....
Price: $95.00
Tailoring, Clothing Design, Home Economics, Learn to Sew, Stitching, Handmade Albums, Kindergarten Art , ABAA-RBMS-2023
New York, New York: Brick Church Sewing School (Columbia University), c.1880. An album of over thirty (30) stitching, sewing, weaving, and tassel samples issued to students of the Brick Church Sewing School in New York c.1880. This example was owned by "Florence M. Dunn", a student; there is at least.....
Price: $600.00
Design, Art Nouveau, Window Display, Draperies, New York
New York, NY: The Dry Goods Economist/ The Textile Publishing Co., 194. Blind stamped brown cloth with gilt stamped title incorporating a camera surrounded by art nouveau influenced flourishes. 438 pp.with over 425 pages of engravings and photographs of designs for store windows, and of store windows already set up.....
Price: $650.00
type setting
Philadelphia, Pa: Lanston Monotype Machine Company. booklet with examples of Goudy text and lombardic capitals, the back page has monotype flowers and ornaments suggested for use with Goudy text and lombardic capitals. 12" x 9" edges are worn with a few tears, some tape repair.
Price: $85.00
Childhood Architecture, Paper Playthings, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Made by Hand
[1910s]. Childhood Architecture, Paper Playthings, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Made by Hand Executed in watercolor, pen and ink with pencil narrative and instructions. Each room includes an exterior wall with windows appropriately adorned, furnishing to construct and in three instances the paper doll occupants, including costumes for "sister" who is.....
Price: $1,200.00
Gourmet Magazine, Food and Wine, Original Art
A 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All". The illustration depicts an.....
Price: $225.00
Gourmet Magazine, Food and Wine, Original Art
A 7 3/4" x 12 1/4" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Fish is Brain Food". The illustration depicts a serving of fish on a plate and a......
Price: $150.00
friendship album, poetry, drawings
Candor, NY: 1876-1880. A friendship album belonging to Ida E. Williams of Candor, NY. The album entries comprise of her friends and family members from Candor, NY, and surrounding towns between 1876-1880. The entries are, generally speaking, short quotes, either from poetry or plays. Of note in the album is.....
Price: $275.00
Public Health,Pneumonia,Design,Black Humor
Baltimore, Maryland: State Department of Maryland, 1940s. A stark visual reminder of the dangers pneumonia and other pulmonary disease pose to the general public, published by the State Department of Maryland as a public health warning: "Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Influenza are at present responsible for 14 per cent of all.....
Price: $450.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History, Women's History
1805. A 3.5" x 3" watercolor bust of a women gazing slightly to the right on 6" x 5 1/4" card stock. Finely detailed face. Inscribed on reverse "Miss Millett with J.P..W's love". This is accompanied by sixteen (16) different overlays of costumes for women of various stations, nationalities and.....
Price: $3,200.00
Original art, Made by Hand, Paper Dolls, Social History
9.29. Four (4) original watercolor designs are attributed to Jane Langton while a graduate student at Radcliffe. Although not signed they were given to the previous owner by Ms. Langton as her work. Finely detailed well executed art. Created on art board, each measures 12" x 8 1/2" Jane Gillson.....
Price: $375.00
Watercolor, Brothel, Social History
1930s-1940s. A 12 1/2" x 19" watercolor that at first appearance gives the impression of an elegant rooming house for young women. Well appointed with refined furnishing of the day, various wall papers and decorative area rugs. But wait, do salacious women lounge on the carpet in slinky streamline revealing.....
Price: $650.00
Morocco, Gold Tooling, Ladies' Fashion
Heidelberg, Germany: 1853. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example with cream silk and crushed red silk interior. Measures 9.5" by 6.25" by 2"; ticket of Joseph Sommer to interior.
Price: $550.00
hand colored, Pompeii, fresco, artwork, pochoir
1891. A souvenir album of Pompeii, featuring 15 hand finished Pochoir illustrations and one water color paintings of the frescos or tiling found in the ruins of Pompeii. The illustrations feature a variety of Roman and Greek Mythology and culture, such as Poseidon riding in his chariot, peacocks and sea.....
Price: $2,500.00
art, drawing, education
Chicago, IL & New York, NY: Sandford Ink Company, 1938. A short book that describes the art of Splatter Ink, and the various techniques that can be used to accomplish different looks and designs. The book contains several examples of the types of stencils that can be used in the.....
Price: $65.00
Woven Silk, Textile, Advertising
Huddersfield, England. A 14.25" by x 11.75" easel back heavy stock show card with diecut and woven silk inset of the companies factory in Huddersfield, England, known as Trafalgar Mills. The fine silk weaving measures 3" by 6" and is referred to in the advertisement as "A Woven Masterpiece". Learoyd.....
Price: $175.00
Early Learning, Folk Art, Love and Friendship
Concord, [NH]: Hill and Moore, 1819. 106 pp. paper on board. Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar, with An Appendix, containing exercises in orthography, in parsing, in syntax, and in punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners. The reverse of the title page has a 3" pen and ink and.....
Price: $325.00
Love and Friendship, Made by Hand, Hair Friendship Tokens
[1850]. A 5 1/2" x 6 1/2" folded paper with two rings of hair held in place with a textured paper diamond. The hand penned sentiment reads "When this you see please dear cousin think of me - Lucinda M. Titus" Most likely Lucinda M. Titus, born 1836, Groton MA.....
Price: $300.00
Reward of Merit, Made by Hand, Approbation, Early Learning
c1850s. A 2" x 2 1/4" record of merit that reads "Nethaniel Kimball by excelling those of his class in spelling merits the approbation of his Instructor - M. P. Stickney. Delicate watercolor border decoration with eternal vine and purple and pink flowers.
Price: $250.00
Original Art, Children's Illustrated Literature
c1950s. An 11" x 8 3/4" watercolor on illustrating board depicts Louis Xiv and Maria Theresa of Spain with a young boy servant. It is captioned "Costumes of the time of Louis XIV - Wax figures in Musee Carnavalet". Pinks, reds and black. Presumably done after wax figures at a......
Price: $225.00
Cinderella, Fairy Tales, Fairy God Mothers, picture book
Sandusky: John Sherman Bagg, 1943. Sandusky: John Sherman Bagg, 1943. Good. Fern Bisel Peat. 14 pp.. with full page color illustrations and in-text black elegant whimsically designed silhouettesy . The classic story of Cinderella retold to help children learn to read. The cover shows general wear, and fading. The backstrip.....
Price: $25.00