Albums & Journals
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
Calligraphic Drawing
Nokomis, Illinois: 1866. Handwritten letter with a fine example of calligraphic drawing depicting a bird in flight holding an olive branch. The letter itself is from a farmer's son to his friend, asking what the friend is studying and relaying family news and offering the above artwork, "a specimen of.....
Price: $250.00
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
friendship albums
Coxsacki, NY: c 1850-1861. A friendship album, entitled 'Album of Gems' which belonged to Matilda S. Bedell of Coxsacki, NY. The bulk of the entries in the album date from 1850-1852, and one of the first entries is by Matilda's husband, William. This date is done in pencil, while the.....
Price: $110.00
friendship, autograph, poetry, verse, gender roles
Ligonier, Pennsylvania: 1881-1887. Matilda J Peterson was born in 1866 in Ligonier, Pennsylvania and died in1958 (according to a note at the back of the album). This album was given to her by W. A. Peterson for Christmas in 1881. The album is partially filled with short notes, generally in.....
Price: $95.00
Humor,Cartoons,Women's Relief Fund,Victorian Women , ABAA-RBMS-2023
[Albany, New York]: 1868-1892. A charming scrap book laden with humor and personality of Mrs. Anthony M. Gibson of Tolland/Rockville, Connecticut. Exceptional for the sheer amount of insight it provides into someone who was clearly a good-natured and playful person. Includes early ink caption/labels. Contains the following ephemera: photos; newspaper.....
Price: $500.00
Education, Religion, Women's History
Kinsey, Henry County, ALA: 1901. An 11" x 8 1/2" letter sheet with a large image from a photograph of the exterior of the Mallalieu Seminary, Kinsey, Henry County, Alabama. The adjacent narrative provides information on the school, it's fees and affiliation to the "Emeline S. Hamien Industrial Home of.....
Price: $75.00