Albums & Journals
education, penmanship, writing, essay, fantasy, moon, dream, thanksgiving
Stow, MA: 1879-1880. A composition notebook for twelve year old George F. Murdock during the winter term of his "3rd Class". It has thirteen (13) short essays, short stories, and/or sample letters with subjects ranging from Paul Revere, a description of what is in the classroom or seen from his.....
Price: $125.00
collection, correspondence, recreation & camps, billheads & letterheads, Harvard University, Hotchkiss School, schools & universities
Lakeville, CT: Keewaydin Camps Limited Partnership, 1931-1932. George W. Creelman (1872-1951) was the Vice President of the Keewaydin Camps, as well as the Master of Mathematics at Hotchkiss School, a private high school in Lakeville, CT. This collection features seven letters written by him, to his son, Brenton "Brent" W......
Price: $225.00
correspondence, military history, WWI, France, Naval Plane Repairman
Juniata, PA: February - November 1918. A collection of eight (8) letters written by Pvt. Glenn H. Jones (1890-1921) to his mother, Ida, and sisters Jennie and Amelia "May", who were living in Juniata, PA. The letters date from February 1918 to November 1918. During the first few letters he.....
Price: $125.00
address book, commonplace book, rowley, business history
Massachusetts: [1919-1930]. A one of a kind commonplace address book, that belonged to Harriet Sophia Rowley (1853-1943), which includes not only the addresses of her family and friends, but also that of local businesses she likes. Sometimes these notes are by the business name or type, but other times it.....
Price: $225.00
Native American History, Kaw Nation, Oklahoma
Washington, D.C. 1885. Typewritten letter from the commissioner of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price, officially appointing L.M. Hutchinson, M.D. as the Physician at Osage and Kaw Agency, "to serve at Kaw reservation, at a compensation of $1200". Price (1814-1901) was commissioner from 1881 until.....
Price: $250.00
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
high society, daily life, weddings, new york, gender roles
New York: 1841-1848. A diary/common place book from New York in the 1840s. It belonged to a young woman named India Allen. Not much biographical information is known about India, beyond the fact that she lived at 6 Washington Square, New City. Based on her writing it is clear that.....
Price: $500.00
correspondence, business history, letterhead, slate, quarry, industry, billhead, religion, sunday school, charity, American Sunday School Union
Slate Hill, PA: Susquehanna Slate, February 1859. The item is two letters addressed to Reverend Benjamin William Chidlaw written on a finely illustrated circular. The letters are written on a single page, which has been folded in half, with the first letter written on the inside fold and the second.....
Price: $85.00
Writers, Album Writers, Albums
New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Company, [1881]. A fascinating look into the Victorian practice of album- and card-making: J. S. Ogilvie's Album Writer's Friend is comprised of "more than three hundred choice selections of poetry and prose, suitable for writing in autograph albums, Valentines, birthday, Christmas, and New Year.....
Price: $125.00
Etymology, language charts, German, Maps
Jasper, IN: 1915-1920. A three volume set that explores in depth the etymology of the English Language, in particular the Teutonic (Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, of which Anglo Saxons spoke) element found within the language. These three volumes were hand crafted by J. T. Melchior, and include.....
Price: $925.00
friendship albums, rebus
Rahway, NJ: 1874. A friendship album, aptly titled "Album of Friendship", belonging to a woman by the name of Jennie. Her last name is never mentioned. The album is mostly blank, but the entries date from 1874, and when a location is noted, it is Rahway, NJ. One of the.....
Price: $130.00
Poetry, Manuscript
1870s-1880s. A grouping of materials related to Whittier. The first is a cabinet card with Whittier's signature at base. The second is a 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" page from an autograph album with what seems to be an original verse penned and signed by John G. Whittier, Amesbury 1878.....
Price: $500.00
nursery rhymes
George Routledge and Sons. Unpagenated. Litho on board covers. Full page illustrations with rhyming verse at base. Collection of Nursery Rhymes. Front free paper detached but present. Hinge is loose but attched. Intact tears last two pages 3in. along back strip. Measures 5" x 7"
Price: $75.00
hand colored, Pompeii, fresco, artwork, pochoir
1891. A souvenir album of Pompeii, featuring 15 hand finished Pochoir illustrations and one water color paintings of the frescos or tiling found in the ruins of Pompeii. The illustrations feature a variety of Roman and Greek Mythology and culture, such as Poseidon riding in his chariot, peacocks and sea.....
Price: $2,500.00
scrapbook, travel and tourism, history, isles of shoal, star island, ephemera
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, Inc., 1936. The scrapbook is actually a copy of “The Story of the Isles of Shoals : an address first delivered on Star Island, July 15, 1916, upon the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Unitarian summer meetings and repeated on the thirtieth anniversary in.....
Price: $250.00
Made by Hand, Friendship Album, Remembrance, Journal, Literature
Mill Hill, Barnet, England: 1897. A 27 page half-bound album with gilt stamp front cover reading Souvenir July 6, 1897 with the bride and grooms initials and a pair of love birds. A manuscript remembrance of the wedding embellished with hand drawn watercolor imagery. The dedication page dated Easter 1898.....
Price: $1,800.00
manuscripts, unpublished, medicine, educational
Cambridge, MA: [1934-1942]. A collection of materials relating to the unpublished manuscript entitled "Operating Room Technique", written by Louis H. Nason, M.D. (1906-1994) a surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital, and professor at Harvard Medical School. The materials appear to cover at least two different early drafts of the book, with.....
Price: $450.00
Visiting Cards, Musings
[Auburn, New York]: c.1877. Commonplace book of Louis McCrea, compiled c.1877. Louis was one half of the McCrea Brothers, coal dealers based in Auburn, New York; his business card has been pasted-in, as well as his visiting card to the upper pastedown. brief descriptions of McCrea's travels are recorded, as.....
Price: $225.00
civil war, union soldier, president Lincoln, mourning dress, soldiers coming home
Waterloo, Iowa: May 2, 1865. Waterloo, Iowa. May 2, 1865. A heartfelt letter from a young woman reflecting the sentiment from the homefront at the end of the war; surviving emotionally on roamers and hearsay. It expresses the understanding of the need for the war but the ambivalence associated with.....
Price: $500.00
sketch book, water color, art, drawing, music, friendship, whimsy
England: 1908-1947. A humorous sketch book and friendship album owned by Madgie Varney, given to her by Bob (Robert) Varney in 1908. The album has over 65 original art work, with 3 photographs, and two music scores. Approximately 10 pieces are done either by Madgie or R M Varney. The.....
Price: $600.00
photographs, photo album, genealogy, Marcy
[1850-1900]. A photograph album of the family of Laban March (1780-1860), an American politician from Massachusetts. The album contains approximately seventy-seven (77) photographs of the great Marcy family. It appears as though one of Laban's children compiled the album, since Laban and his wife, Fanny Howe (1791-1857), don't appear in.....
Price: $325.00
women, teaching, education, made by hand
Kalamazoo, MI: 1937. women, teaching, education, made by hand A school project done by Kalamazoo's Woodward Junior High's 14 year old Marian Eleanor Beattie (1923-2007) on what her future life and career would look like. The result of the project is a large, 81 page hand made book. As the.....
Price: $450.00
friendship album, poetry, song, drawing, white star social club
Jersey City, NJ: 1873-1877. A friendship album belonging to Martha Durand Tibbetts (1859-1929), which is completely full of entries by her friends. The bulk of the entries date from 1873-1877, with a few outliers until 1910, and most of the authors of the entries are from Jersey City, NY, or.....
Price: $225.00
Works by Children, Firefighting, Baseball, Boy's Life
Moberly MO: 1903, age 12 years 4 1/2 months. A 56 pp composition book with an accounting of Master Stephens in 18 chapters. A drawing of fire equipment with crossed axe and nozzle is captioned No. 7 Nozzle (with dyslexic Zs). The first 17 deal strictly with intricate details about.....
Price: $375.00