Popular Culture
Graphic Design, Medication, Social and Cultural History
Japan: 1920s-1930s. This group of 14 vividly illustrated medicine packets designed for the Japanese market. Besides the printed product information,the imagery is often relevant to the ailment depicting coughing, holding an aching head or tooth or a demon taking hold of or seizing the body. The little packet with a......
Price: $350.00
Paper Doll, Social History, Popular Culture, Entertainment, Women's History
Akron, OH: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1943. A 12 1/2" x 10 3/4" uncut paper doll book with two (2) Ann Sothern paper dolls and six (6) pages of costumes. Each costume page has a vignette with an image from a photograph of the actress presumably in character. Pinched waist 1940s.....
Price: $75.00
Humor, Drinking Songs, WWII
United States: c1945. A 12 pp. stapled booklet (9.75" by 7") of drinking songs popularized by servicemen in WWII, titled "The Charlie Song Book: Primitive Songs for Primitive Men". It is "dedicated to the temporary wives, sweethearts, and loved ones" (front). Includes a wood cut of a soldier drinking and.....
Price: $250.00
paris, humor, the smile,
Paris, France: 1900-1913. A collection of thirty (30) issues of "Le Sourire", a French illustrated humorist serial publication under the direction of Maurice Mery and Alphonse Allais. It was a weekly publication, normally issued on Saturdays. Le Sourire, meaning the Smile, was launched in 1889 and ran continuously till 1939.....
Price: $250.00
Chromolithography, Social Culture, Visual Culture, Tobacco, Cuba
1850-1880. A varied array of chromolithograph imagery depicting objects found appealing to tobacco smokers of the day. While the dates range from 1850-1900, the majority of the collection was produced between 1860-1880. A predominant theme is beautiful women. Additional topics include fantasy, racism, exotic locales, plantation life, men's sports and.....
Price: $38,500.00
Exercise and Fitness for Women, YWCA, Baseball
Bureau of Social Education of the National Board, Young Women's Christian Association, 1919. Combat sluggish digestion, bad circulation, flabby muscles, nervousness and the "Blues" with this pocket-sized guide of exercises tailored for working women by the YWCA! It will provide the "Three Things Wanted by All Girls": Youthfulness, Health and.....
Price: $325.00
Adventurer, Naturalist, Filmmaker, Social History, Africa
1930-1939. A collection of 15 various press photos from 1930-1939 from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco papers. The photos focus primarily on Osa, but include some of the fatal plane crash of Martin. Seven (7) of the photos show Osa on excursions with animals, natives and scenery. All.....
Price: $225.00
Mendelssohn Quintette Club, Music and Concerts, History of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts: 1872. Illustrated concert program for a concert given by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, featuring Mrs. J.W. Weston as vocalist. The Boston-based Mendelssohn Quintette Club was one of the most widely celebrated touring chamber ensembles in the country. German music (including Mendelssohn's, of course) was immensely popular throughout the.....
Price: $150.00
Robinson Crusoe
New York, New York: William Wood & Co., c.1865. A charming story of four young children who pretend they are in the book Robinson Crusoe while their parents are away. A charming book about family, pretend play, and the enduring appeal of Robinson Crusoe to children across generations. Early ink.....
Price: $50.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Film Star
Sandusky, OH: Stephens Publishing Company, [1946]. This book has two (2) punch out dolls of June Allyson (1917-2006) an American stage, film and television actress with a 'girl next store' image. She is most well known for her parts in films such as Two Girls and A Sailor (1944), and.....
Price: $65.00
Women's Suffrage, Ellen H. Clapsaddle
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wolf & Co., 1910s. A rather charming women's suffrage-themed Valentine postcard, with artwork by Ellen H. Clapsaddle (1865-1934) depicting a baby girl wearing a bright yellow "Votes for Women" sash and the tagline "Love me, Love my Vote". Measures 5.25" by 3.5". Contemporary pencil inscription to verso: "Eva.....
Price: $150.00
Tobacco Marketing, Celebrities and Historical Figures, Biographies, Chromolithography
Park Place, New York: Knapp & Company, 1890s. A complete set of 48 absolutely charming miniature chromolithographed biographies, published as part of an advertising campaign for Duke Brand Cigarettes. Each was issued in a box of cigarettes in a "collect-them-all"-type marketing ploy. The complete set here includes 7 women and.....
Price: $3,500.00
Fashion, Popular Culture, Art Deco
A 19 pp. weekly publications with paper wraps. Art Deco influenced fashion magazine with fashion pattern with imagery and narrative description. A previously unpublished novellette follows the fashion section. Weekly features last section of the magazine. Color covers. Printed in French. Measures 11" x 7 1/4" wear on cover, toning.....
Price: $38.00
Paper Dolls, Sitcom, Entertainers, Pretend Play, Popular Culture
Columbia Pictures Industries, Artcraft, 1972. Authorized Edition. 6pp. Cover image of the popular television singing family with a die-cut opening to the first page depicting their touring bus. Six punch out dolls first and last pages. The back cover has a large punch-out of a seated David Cassidy. 4 pages.....
Price: $50.00
Advertising and Promotion, Automobilia, Popular Culture
Detroit, MI: Evans-Winter-Herb, 1930s. A tri-fold brochure promoting the wonders of modern mohair velvet upholstery for your new Chevrolet. Promotional points include New (no one has had Mohair Velvet upholstery in the past, Beautiful - for centuries people have admired velvet; now there is a new twist, Durability - includes.....
Price: $35.00
dance, rumba, flip book, arthur murrary,
Bromo-Seltzer, 1940s. A flip book produced by the Bromo-Seltzer Company in conjunction with Arthur Murray, the American Dance instructor, in order to teach the dance know as the Rumba. Each page as a photograph and corresponding instructions, so that when you flip through the book, you can see the dance.....
Price: $65.00
Popular Culture, souvenirs
A 1 1/4" x 3 7/8" heavy card stock souvenir ticket from Balances des Grands Magasins du Louvre, Paris. The front depicts a cherub holding up a banner reading "Souvenir Des Grands Magasins du Louvre". The background is an ornately contrived fantasyland filled with toys. Ch Van Der Daele sc.....
Price: $60.00
Educational Game, Magicians, Learning to Multiply
New York City: The Maxim Games Co., 1945. A 6 1/4" x 4 1/4" litho on pressed board box with a smilar number of discs. The cover illustration implies math can be magical. The box sides boast -age 8 to 80 play TALLYIT - an educational game. The cards have.....
Price: $45.00
Advertising Trade Card, Uncle Tom's Cabin, African American Vernacular, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Five Points NY: Donaldson Brothers. A 5" x 3 1/4" advertising trade card promoting Uncle Tom's Cabin Smokin Tobacco, manufactured by Wellman & Dwire, Quincy, Ill. Depicts characters from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Eva is holding a plug of tobacco while seated on Uncle Tom's shoulder. It.....
Price: $100.00
Chromolithography, Circus
Rochester, New York: Stecher Lith. Co., 1916. A whimsical flight through "Clown Land", with large chromolithographed illustrations of circus acts including a donkey and clowns, a polar bear on a slide, trained elephants and "educated seals", chariot races, and the "Queen of the Arena" balancing on the back of a......
Price: $125.00
Stereotypes and Racism, Lithography, Anti-Chinese Sentiment, American West
[Chicago, Illinois]: Western News Co., 1870. First printing of "The Heathen Chinee", subtitled "Plain Language from Truthful James", a series of nine (9) lithographic plates based on the narrative poem by Bret Harte (1836-1902). Steeped in Anti-Chinese sentiment, the plates tell the story of a Chinese immigrant named "Ah Sin".....
Price: $300.00
Sheet Music, Social History, Illustration Art
London: Boosey & Co., c1870. 11 pp sheet music with illustrated cover depicting revelers at the Carnival. Music within. The back cover lists new dance music available through Boosey & Co.. Measures 14" x 10 1/4. Minor edge wear and toning. Cabinet card covers are detached.
Price: $100.00
magazine, humor, offensive humor.
Hermosa Beach, CA: Scum Publishing Company, 1965-1969. The collection consists of four magazines entitled "Horseshit, the Offensive Review", Numbers 1-4, that were published over the course of several years. It was an independent magazine published by two ex-military brothers, Robert and Thomas Dunker. One the inside cover of the first.....
Price: $350.00
shoes, humor, horseshit the offensive review, caricatures and cartoons
Hermosa Beach, CA: Scum Publishing Company, 1967. Written by Thomas and illustrated by Robert, a pair of ex-military brothers, this 56 page booklet is full of humorous shoe puns and political jokes. One joke in the book depicts a pair of leather dress shoes surrounded by several pairs of cowboy.....
Price: $125.00