Religion
Female Preacher, Evangelist, Healer, Proselytizing
1920-1930. A 17 1/2" x 10" heavy card stock poster The title reads Come Hear Mattie Crawford - The great woman preacher tell the story of Jesus in simplicity and power. This is followed by a somewhat ethereal appearing image from a photograph of Crawford in a white dress holding.....
Price: $425.00
children's books, religion
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Printed By B. Clay, 1862. " Printed under the direction of the committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge". 16 pages, bound in green paper wrapper with decorative border; engraved frontisepiece. Tells the story of the potato.....
Price: $25.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities, graduation
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, June 27, 1861. A program for the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the Ladoga Female Seminary as well as its graduation ceremony. The program lists what appear to be recitations of poems or essays by the students, interspersed with music between them. Some of.....
Price: $75.00
Promise Box, Inspiration, Bible Proverbs
Philadelphia, PA: Hebron Tract Society, [1916]. A 4" x 5" x 1 1/8" lidded paper covered box with printed label on top. It reads "Exceeding Great and Precious Promises" Thy Words were found and I did eat them Jer. 15:16. TAKE ONE AND REPLACE. When opened it reveals rolled paper.....
Price: $225.00
religion, Sunday school literature, teenage boys
Philadelphia: Americna Sunday-School Union, 1844. 87 pp. Applied marble cover, 3 plates, embellishments at end of some chapters. Reuben, originally hesitant about going off to school, learns how his Bible studies can influence his daily life. 6" x 4" some wear on cover, some foxing, inscribed, one plate possibly missing.....
Price: $15.00
hymns
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, c. 1828. 128 pp. Illustrated and printed paper cover, frontispiece, full text. The Hymn Book contains hymns on the categories of creation and providence, redemption, gratitude, prayer, The Scriptures, worship, Lord's day, morning and evening, opening and closing year, for teachers, God's omnipotence, the importance.....
Price: $30.00
Sunday School Visiter Magazine] [Christian education] [Episcopal religion
New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1835. 431 pp. Applied marble cover, leather gilt spine, bound volume of Sunday School Visiter magazine, index in front. Monthly magazine, January through December, fully bound. Each month contains articles, miscellany, stories, instruction, reports, and communications. 6 3/4" x 4 1/2" wear.....
Price: $20.00
Christianity, Porn, Premarital Sex, Teenagers, Drinking, Smoking, Texas, Baptist, Lung Cancer
Dallas, Texas: The Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, c.1959. A grouping of seven (7) brochures, five (5) under the title "Teen Talk" presented by the Texas Baptist Christian Life commission and two (2) by the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.....
Price: $275.00
Agnosticism,Philosophy,Radical Freethought
New York, New York: 1922. Vol. 49, No. 31 of "The Truth Seeker", a "Freethought and Agnostic Newspaper" that provided a space for radical and progressive thinkers to discuss social, religious, and moral issues without interference from the Church and other conservative institutions. This issue features a particularly lovely allegorical.....
Price: $150.00
Allegories, Christianity in Education, Anthropomorphism
New York, New York: Stephen M. Crane, c1845. A children's book about two lambs "intended to instruct you in some very important knowledge. The lambs are very much like children, which they are intended to represent. The Good Shepherd is the Lord Jesus ... the roaring lion is the chief.....
Price: $75.00
children's books, religion, morality
London: Frederick Warne and Company. 16 pages, engraved frontisepiece. Cover is a purple wrapper with a decorative border. "Price One Penny" printed on top of border on front and back cover. Children's story with religious and moral lessons. One of a set of twelve, part of a series of such.....
Price: $25.00
circular, religion, Judaic, missionary, nonprofit, charity, social welfare
Brooklyn, NY: Williamsburg Mission to the Jews, [1920]. A fundraising circular for the Williamsburg Mission to the Jews, which was a missionary group set on evangelizing the Jews in New York that was started by a former Rabbi, Leopold Cohn (1862-1937). The circular is double sided, with the front providing.....
Price: $100.00
home economics, periodicals, magazines, women's history, religion, charity, women's work
Elmira, NY: Banner Publishing Company, March 1897. A magazine that was a Christian, educational and patriotic periodical that was published on a bimonthly basis devoted to the ideals of "Christianity, culture and civism" in women. The magazine provided the reader with articles on a variety of topics, such as charity.....
Price: $85.00
periodical] [missions
Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1851. 16 pp. Green illustrated printed paper cover, monthly periodical, Vol. II, no 1 for January 1851, contains 2 illustrations. Inside cover lists ordering information and donations to Children's Educational Funds. Content titles include: The New Year, Julia the Heathen Girl, Hindoo.....
Price: $18.00
children's books, religion, Christianity, music, hymns
Boston, MA: Timothy Swan, 1819. "The peculiar design of this publication is, to impress devotional feelings as early as possible on the infant mind; fully convinced, as the author is, that they cannot be impressed too soon; and that a child, to fill the full force of the idea of.....
Price: $100.00
Theosophy, Spiritualism, 19th Century Religions, Occult
London, England: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1891. A glossary of Theosophical terms compiled by the prominent British theosophists and human rights advocates Annie Besant (1847-1933) and Herbet Burrows (1845-1922), with a brief introduction: "The words which are explained in the following short Glossary are some of those which have been found.....
Price: $275.00
sermon, quote, religion, robert e. lee,
New York: The Washington Life Ins. Co., 1893. A tiny pocket journal, written by an unknown individual whose entries mostly consists of quotes from sermons delivered by Reverend Moses Drury Hoge (often referred to in the journal as Dr. Hoge). Along with the quotes, are the writer's thoughts on these.....
Price: $175.00
penmanship, alphabet, music, religion, folk songs, sermons, ABC, copy book, South Carolina
Philadelphia, PA: B. H. Rand, 1855. A copy book, apart of B. H. Rand's series, "Introduction to Penmanship". This copy book is full of practice penmanship, both in regards to letters of the alphabet and signatures. These exercises are often on the margins of the pages, or over top of.....
Price: $75.00
amana society, communism, capitalism, farming, cooperative capitalism
Amana, Iowa: The Amana Society, 1936. This brochure shares a variety of historical and cultural material on the Amana Society, also know as the Amana Colonies, a grouping of seven villages located in Iowa near Iowa City. The booklet describes the government, customs, dress, religion, history, agriculture, and craftsmanship of.....
Price: $125.00
children's books, religion
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1861. 16 pages. Written by Catherine D. Bell under the pseudonym "Cousin Kate". Engraved frontisepiece, and decorative elements on page 4. Tan wrapper printed with red ink. Ornate decorative border includes a biblical parable and illustrations. Story of a young boy learning about the value.....
Price: $25.00
Jews-History, History of the Bible, maps
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. 251 pp. Cloth cover, fold out map on reverse of title page, 2 additional maps. Contents: The Old Testament world -- The Babylonian background of early Hebrew history -- The Egyptian background -- The early Palestinian background -- Israel's religious heritage -- The oldest.....
Price: $35.00
social & cultural, religion, missionary work, charity, China, military history, WWII, Second Sino-Japanese War
New York, NY: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1940. The booklet is a compilation of information provided by missionaries in China through letters, missionary reports, historical material, and missionary radio broadcasts. It has been divided up into ten sections: 'From.....
Price: $150.00
engraving, flyer, tabernacle, prosthelytism, Advertising and Promotion
St. Louis, MO: W. E. Stephens, 1895. A flyer for the sale of "The Tabernacle of Witness", an engraving done by Cora Massie Stephens (1856-1943). The engraving was being sold by William Edward Stephens (1850-1918), Cora's husband and owner of W. E. Stephens & Co. (eventually renamed Stephens Lithographing and.....
Price: $85.00
Due West Female College, women's history, religion, educational, schools & universities
Due West, Abbeville Country, SC: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Co., 1900. This school catalogue is for Due West Female College, which was a private Presbyterian women's college located in Due West, SC. This catalogue not only served as its annual catalogue for the 1900-1901 school year, but also the school's decennial.....
Price: $150.00