Industrial, Building & Trades
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
Swatch Book, Sample Book, Aloxite Brand, Metal Polishing
Niagara Falls, NY: Carborundum Company, [1942]. The 3" x 5" sample booklet includes 14 different weights/grades of the abrasive cloths...
Price: $200.00
Rubber Industry, Trade catalog
Andover, Massachusetts: Tyer Rubber Company, c.1910. Illustrated trade catalogue advertising rubber products produced by the Tyer Rubber Company. Each product...
Price: $175.00
Lead Paint, Lead Poisoning, Sales
New York, New York: Union White Lead Manufacturing Co., 1880. From before lead paint was found to be poisonous: this...
Price: $125.00
racism, racial sterrotypes, shoe, shoe polish, advertisement, advertising
1940s. A 21" x 11" sign advertising shoe polish. The graphic sign is emblazoned with the quotes "For all shoes"...
Price: $375.00
Media Studies, Manufacturing, Printing Processes, Material History
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Palm Brothers Co., 1920s. A colorful booklet advertising the decals, window signs, and transfers produced by the...
Price: $150.00
lamp, mining, advertisement, price list
New York: [1900]. A product list for Friemann & Wolf of Zwickau a German company that made a variety of...
Price: $85.00
Employee Manuals, WWII
Long Beach, California: Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., 1943. A wartime training booklet for employees of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc....
Price: $275.00
American Eagle, Broadside, Furniture Polish
New York: [1860]. A 15" x 11" broadside with a fine woodcut of an American eagle at top with a....
Price: $750.00
Mining, Spanish Language, Labor
Boston, Massachusetts: Rand, Avery & Co, Printers, 1870s. Illustrated Spanish-language advertising bifolium for Burleigh Rock Drill Co., a highly successful...
Price: $100.00
patent, transfer, butter churn, dairy,
Syracuse, NY: July 23, 1861. A transfer of patent certificate for the Common Sense [Butter] Churn. The churn was invented...
Price: $95.00
Civil Engineering, Topography, Maps and Surveys, Maritime, History of Ohio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wagner & McGuigan, Lithographer, 1854. Engraved scaled survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, showing "pier work recommended...
Price: $150.00
industry, cotton, tourism, business
Montgomery, Alabama: Brown Printing Company, c1900. 36 pp, staple booklet. This short book details the history, people and culture of...
Price: $95.00
brochure, design, catalogue,
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Approx. 162, Illustrated with several color plates, of which some are tipped in, along...
Price: $200.00
merchant, commission merchant, business, goods, flour, wood
New York: 1859. A letter written by Frank Hiram Crosby, most likely a commission merchant, in New York. It is...
Price: $125.00
correspondence, business history, letterhead, slate, quarry, industry, billhead, religion, sunday...
Slate Hill, PA: Susquehanna Slate, February 1859. The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on...
Price: $85.00
Social Satire, Gilded Age of New York
New York: [1870s]. An assemblage of 12 advertising trade cards satirizing the rich and famous of New York's Gilded Age...
Price: $500.00
Broadside, Cider Mill
Cheshire CT: 1837. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan...
Price: $1,050.00
Printing and Publishing, History of Publishing, Science & Technology
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1849. A single-fold circular announcement and description of the upcoming publication of Dictionary of...
Price: $75.00
Raging Canal, P. Morris, Erie Canal, Songster
c1860. The "Raging Canal" was one of many songs that were created in reference to the Erie Canal and the...
Price: $45.00
land development, fruit, agriculture, orchard, apple, pear, government
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Advertising and Intelligence Bureau, Lands Department, 1909. An advertising booklet meant to attract farmers into establishing fruit...
Price: $150.00
Trade Catalogue, Paint, Varnish Building Supplies
Hamden NJ (Opposite Philadelphia PA: Morel Brothers Pros. 1879. 112 pp. polished stock wraps. Black and white illustrated catalogue including...
Price: $225.00