Made by Hand
The materials in this category are made by hand.
samples
Boston, Mass. W. C. Dodge Paper Co, 1910s. Green card stock cover of sample booklet. Contains cover samples with color and paper weight. Shows samples for various companies. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" all pages and binding intact, slight wear on edges of cover.
Price: $75.00
Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Fall & Winter Fashion. Contains Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a......
Price: $95.00
One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Springtime Fashion. Contains Variations of One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a pattern.....
Price: $95.00
Sewing Patterns, Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of five (5) items relating to Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion, including three catalogs of garment patterns and two catalogs advertising clothing and accessories sold by upscale department stores. All are illustrated with prices, and highlight the growing availability of fashion to the.....
Price: $250.00
illustation, watercolor, ink, drawings, comic, comic strip, comic book, advertisements
c1920s - 1940s. A collection of over seventy (70) pieces of artwork by A S Van Eerde. The work is in various stages of completion, such as notes, outlines, sketches, illustrations, and completed works. A S Van Eerde was a commercial artist that designed advertisements for clients. He also sold.....
Price: $750.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Poetry and Verse, Anthropomorphism
[1930s]. Ten (10) original hand penned verses, each with charming relevant drawings. All are on a single 12" x 9" art board except for the tale of A Mouse and a Beetle and a sweet baby Sausage who lived together. This particular tale, written in five verses has a sad.....
Price: $1,750.00
Original Poetry, Pens, Humor, Manuscript
[West Virginia?]: 1914. A charming original manuscript poem in blue ink titled "Pen", signed by A.G. Wilcox: "Pen is a thing that they write with Pen is a thing that will brake[sic] Pen is a thing to keep in the house..." Concludes with "Pen is a thing that they write.....
Price: $150.00
Private Printing, Women's Health, Satire, Facsimiles, Illustration
1930s. A quirky illustrated facsimile of an eighteenth-century treatise written as a hoax. The disgruntled author had been rejected by the Royal Society for membership in 1750, and his response was to publish proof "that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with a Man".....
Price: $150.00
medicine, pharmacy, elixir, medicated wine, schools & universities, Louisville College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
Chicago, IL: J. J. Spalding & Co., 1872. A printed copy of a paper read before the Louisville College of Pharmacy by Conrad Lewis Diehl (1840-1917) during a pharmaceutic meeting at the College. Diehl was a prominent pharmacist of his time, and the paper includes information on how to make.....
Price: $125.00
Tailoring, Clothing Design, Home Economics, Learn to Sew, Stitching , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Addison, New York: c.1920. Twelve (12) hand-sewn examples of stitching by a school girl, Catherine T. Flynn, likely made in a sewing or home economics class. Penned in her finest cursive. The techniques used include: running stitch; even basting; two examples of uneven basting; diagonal basting; two examples of gauging;.....
Price: $250.00
medicine, notes, skeletal system, anatomy, foot, leg, bones, drawings
March 1888. A wonderfully detailed notebook which features notes on the skeletal system of the leg and foot, including all of their bones, cartilages, and ligaments that support and give shape to the body structures. The notes are legible, though not easily understood, unless one is familiar with the skeletal.....
Price: $150.00
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
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
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
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