Food & Wine
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. Lacks the detachable message advertisement from.....
Price: $150.00
Baby Formula, Nestlé, Advertising Paper Dolls, Marketing Campaigns
Paris, France: Nestlé, 1920s. Uncut example of one of the "Poupées Nestlé", a successful paper doll marketing campaign run by Nestlé, hoping that the children who received them would ask their mothers to buy Nestlé baby formula ("Farine Lactée"). Measures approx. 7.75" by 8.25. This example is complete and features.....
Price: $150.00
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
Gastronomy, Fine Wines, Hotels and Resorts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hotel Walton, 1900s. A wine list produced in the early 1900s for the Hotel Walton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Includes lists of Champagnes, Clarets, Sauternes, Hocks, Burgundies, Sherries, Madeira, Port, Whiskies, Gins, Rums, Ales and Beers, Mineral Waters, Brandies, and Cordials. Includes prices. 12mo (5.75" by 3.5"), pp. 8.....
Price: $85.00
Yale, Colleges and Universities, Class Reunions and Dinners
[West Haven, Connecticut]: Yale Class of 1877, 1875. Original printed program and bill of fare for the Yale Class of 1877 Supper held in 1875 at the Sea View House in West Haven, Connecticut. Includes the evening's Bill of Fare as well as a program with a list of toasts.....
Price: $125.00
Trade Association, Road Makers Congress, Menu
American Road Makers' Association, 10-Feb-04. The banquet was given by the Hartford Citizen's for the Road Makers Congress, which was an annual convention held by the American Road Makers' Association (ARMA) with the goal of promoting the means to make 'good roads' through design and construction methods. The item is.....
Price: $150.00
Recipe, Cream Soda, Soda Fountain
Scranton, PA: Kiefer, [1878]. A 3 1/4" x 7 3/8" Recipe and Plan to Manufacture The Excelsior Cream Soda. A cut of a young girl upper left followed by a fill in the blank printed recipe. The quantities of sugar, egg whites, water, bicarbonate of soda and tartace (sp) acid.....
Price: $175.00
Social History, Historical Memorabilia, Menus
A collection of menus and related materials for 55 dining events including associated relevant collateral materials totaling approximately 100 pieces. Who’s who of New York’s business elite from the turn of the century thought the onset of the Depression. Events held at the most prestigious organizations and establishments.....
Price: $3,500.00
Newspaper Supplement, Cookery, Community Cookbook
c1910. A 32 pp what appears to be a newspaper supplement printed on newsprint. The front cover depicts a woman in a kitchen preparing a recipe. Illustration marked D. C. Rudolph. The forward is titled Recipes by Famouse Clevland Cooks, Published by The Cleveland News for Distribution Among Its Readers.....
Price: $100.00
Humor, Cutlery Puns
London: J. King, [1890s]. Two (2) amusing greeting cards designed with cutlery puns: "A Stirring Time to You" - may you always have a fresh spoon when the old one turns rusty..., "A FORK to show you're not fork-gotten...", and so on. Each is crafted out of embossed decorated paper.....
Price: $350.00
Victorian Cookie, Love and Friendship, Oddities
New York: [1890s]. An elaborate cookie created in the shape of a heart with applied cornucopias and a Cupid with a floral garland. Applied gold leaf to bead-shaped border decoration. The cookie was applied to a New York City street map for cooling/stability. The map on the reverse is helpful.....
Price: $450.00
George Washington, The Carolina, Menu
Pinehurst, NC: Feb. 22, 1910. An 8 1/4" x 6" menu card with a photographic image of a portrait of George Washington on the front, surrounded by a linen frame with a beige satin bow at upper left. Captioned "George Washington". Photo by Pach Bros. NY. The menu on the.....
Price: $110.00
History of Ice Cream
Shartlesville, Pennsylvania: Wm. A. Stump General Merchandise. Printed advertising card for Abbotts DE LUXE Ice Cream, "now served" at a Shartlesville, Pennsylvania general store. In an attempt to separate itself from its competitors, the brand has coined the term "spooned ice cream", which "is served just as it comes from.....
Price: $75.00
Cookbooks and recipes, Children, World, Foods of the World, Regional Cookbook
United States: Phillips Publishers, Inc., 1951. A most charming cookbook of recipes from around the world, beautifully illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson. The decoration appears to have children in mind. The cookbook, which is described as being "Tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife" named Heloise Frost, begins.....
Price: $225.00
Thompson Ypsilanti Mich., Slicers, Product Innovation, Cookery
New York: John Chatillon & Sons, c. 1921. This tri-fold, catalogue advertises for a variety of different types of cutters. Over the six panels are the types of Ypsilanti cutters that are being offered. There are five categories of cutters: Kraut, Kraut: "B" Line Special Quality, Two Knife Slaw, One.....
Price: $65.00
Advertising, Food
1905. The front panel features a drawn colored illustration of men, women, and an automobile waiting in line for Armour's Star Frankfurters. The inside panels features a colored illustration of a pop-up roll revealing a frankfurter inside a bun. Below the pop-up are a few paragraphs promoting the hot dog.....
Price: $55.00
woman guide, housekeeping guide, cookbook, recipe, american housekeeper
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. 482 pp. Decorative green cloth covers with gilt stamp."Approved by Physicians of All Classes", this book was part cookbook, part health manual, and part domestic guide. It sought to codify and simplify the information and skills needed to efficiently and effectively run any.....
Price: $60.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Body Image,Weight Loss or Reducing,Dieting and Nutrition,Health and Weight,Stigma of Weight,Quack
New York, New York: Corrective Eating Society, 1921. Revised edition of a weight loss guide broken intro eight parts, and published by the "Corrective Eating Society" of New York, an organization formed by nutritionist Eugene Christian. Christian (1860-1930) pioneered the raw food diet and presented himself as a qualified physician.....
Price: $500.00
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
Bacchanalian, Chromolithography
1888-89: Christian Stoll. Set of five (4) 19th C German chromolithograph wine prints by Hermann Vogel (1856-1918) - They include Champagner, Chianti, Malaga, Rheingold and Tokayer . From a series called 'Funf Wein-Bilder ' published by Christian Stoll, Plauen i./V.. Germany, 1888/1889. Signed in plate: Hermann Vogel, H. Vogel, H.V......
Price: $850.00
India Refining Co., No-Stickee, Candy
Philadelphia, PA: ca 1915. No-Stickee is a product created by the India Refining Company, which specialized in vegetable butters. The three separate recipe cards are to advertise the No-Stickee product to use with candy, promising to not only make candy stable and cut easily, but to also prevent it from.....
Price: $50.00
Beer, Poetry, German-American poetry
Rochester NY: Gertrude Schwabl, 1935. A large format broadside with verse and music for "Ei du Schone, ei du schone, ei du schone Schnitzelbank."The 24 captioned images are the objects found in this cumulative song. Presumably the broadside was designed to encourage patrons to sing along. Measures 37 1/2" x......
Price: $275.00
Trade Catalogue, Wine, Champagne
Hotel Knicerbocker Print, 1906-1907. 11pp. Printed wraps. Content includes Champagnes, Clarets, White Wines, Red Burgundies, White Burdundies and Chablis, Sparkl'g Burgundies, Sherries, Vintage Ports, Madeiras, Brandies, Scotch Whiskies, Rye Whiskies, Bourbon and Chartreus. Includes individual brands, vintage costs per case by 1st Cost and Laid Down, and the amount in.....
Price: $65.00