Medicine, Science & Technology
Lady Liberty, Telephone, Communications History and Technology
New York, New York: The Lambert Schmidt Telephone Mfg. Co., 1900. An artifact of early telephone history: a letter from an agent for Commercial Construction Co. to a client, enclosing ephemera with pricing for telephones. The ephemera consists of: one copy of a typewritten letter quoting prices for telephones produced.....
Price: $350.00
invite, transportation, steamer, Eastman College, Eastman National Business College, Hudson River
Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman College, May 18, 1878. An invite for the Eastman College's First Grand Excursion, otherwise known as "Poughkeepsie to the Ocean" (via news articles at the time). The students were to travel on Saturday, May 18, 1878, on the steamer Mary Powell, all the way to New York.....
Price: $90.00
Hospitals,History of Mental Health,Social Welfare
Boston, Massachusetts: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1844. Eleventh annual report of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, with valuable information about patient demographics. Admissions, discharges, deaths, and average number of patients is reported, as well as provisions and expenses. However, the most valuable section of this report is the.....
Price: $150.00
Horology, Science and Technology, Movable & Mechanical
New York: J. W. Delamere & Do. 1865. A 3 3/4" x 2 5/8" card with a ring on a string that is to be repositioned across a line of months. The card is to be positions so the A flap faces the sun to create a shadow line. If.....
Price: $400.00
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
Menu, Transportation
1900. A single-fold 8" x 5 1/2" menu with cover illustrations with Art Nouveau influenced decoration and illustration of asailing vessel. The menu is for breakfast on the Steamer Plymouth. Comprehensive menu. Wine List on reverse.
Price: $65.00
Family Medicine, Remedies and Cures
St. Louis, Missouri: Luyties Pharmacal Company, 1920s. A booklet for families advertising homeopathic tablets sold by the Luyties Pharmacal Company as treatments or remedies for over forty (40) afflictions ranging from appendicitis to whooping cough. Descriptions of each affliction's symptoms and dangers are included along with which tablet to use.....
Price: $100.00
black water, hydrotherapy, bath house, medicine, health and welfare, business history, advertisement
Alden, NY: The Famous Original Black Water Baths, 1915. The town of Alden in New York became famous in 1891 due to the discovery of black mineral water, more often referred to as black water, a thick, rotten egg smelling water with supposed healing properties. This booklet is advertising for.....
Price: $125.00
Women's Health,Marketing to Women,Gender Roles
Middlefield, Connecticut: Dainty Maid Inc., 1946-1953. Two (2) items advertising feminine hygiene products by Dainty Maid Inc., makers of the "Daintette" menstrual cup and Dainty Maid brand douche and powder. Provides a window into how companied marketed these products to American women in the late 1940s and early 1950s, emphasizing.....
Price: $175.00
First Aid,Emergencies,Public Health,Cold War and the Atomic Bomb
United States: 1943-c.1950. A group of three (3) first aid booklets from 1943 to c.1950 for families and the the general public, educating them in first aid. Two of the booklets advertise family products sold by McKesson & Robbins, Inc., and the other is a government-issued public health booklet. First.....
Price: $175.00
Vehicles,Carts,Buggies
Racine, Wisconsin: Fish Bros. & Co., 1890s. Folded advertising pamphlet for the Fish Bros' Road Chart, a "Light, Safe, Easy Riding, Two-Wheeled Road Vehicle". Includes illustrations of four different models with pricing, weight, and capacity. Markets the "Phaeton Road Cart" by saying that "ladies ride in it with as much.....
Price: $200.00
Patent Medicines, Meaning of Flowers
New Haven: The C.G. Clark Co., 1869. Trade catalog marketed to women, advertising patent medicines sold by the C.G. Clark Co. Contents include "A Correct Dictionary of Flowers" on the rectos, relating the meanings of over 100 different varieties of flowers; advertisements and testimonials printed on versos. Calendar for the.....
Price: $75.00
Drunk Driving, Voting Issues, Local Elections, Alcohol and Temperance
Waterville, Maine: F.W. Smith, c.1938. "VOTE THE DRINKING DRIVER DOWN--Vote 'NO' on liquor in September" is the message to Maine voters in this confrontational poster. The cartoon graphic shows a disheveled man hurtling down the road towards the viewer, tossing a liquor bottle behind him, with a license plate that.....
Price: $225.00
Menopause, Sexual Health and Education
Princeton, New Jersey: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 1985. An educational booklet for women approaching menopause. Includes a general overview, along with more detailed information about its physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms and effects. It closes with a description of how to manage symptoms medically. Interestingly, the booklet has a section titled.....
Price: $150.00
Patent Medicines, Marketing, Dream Analysis, Etiquette, Laugh and Grow Fat
Baltimore, Maryland: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. Four (4) pocket-sized booklets in original illustrated wrappers, published together as a clever "collect-them-all"-type marketing scheme advertising Kohler Remedies. The booklets contained everything from jokes to dream symbols. The titles include: "Forget-Me-Not Rhymes". Baltimore: Kohler Manufacturing Co., c.1890. 32mo (5.25" by 3.25"), pp. [8].....
Price: $225.00
Pulmonary diseases, Inhalers, medical advertising, Anglo-German, Patent medicines
Vincennes, Indiana: Cushman Drug Company, c.1900. Printed flyer (10.75" by 3.75") advertising Cushman's Menthol Inhaler, with list of afflictions its treats (including headache, catarrh, Hay Fever, asthma, toothaches, seasickness, and even "Insomnia and Nervousness") and directions for use "by the Nose" and "by the Mouth". Interestingly, the verso is printed.....
Price: $75.00
medicine, consumption, tuberculosis, medical instruments, inhaler, patent medicine, fraud, advertising
Cincinnati, OH: The Alpha Medical Institute, [1900]. A brochure advertising several medical instruments made by the Alpha Medical Institute in Cincinnati, OH, which was run by Dr. Thomas William Graydon (1850-1900). While the instruments could be used to treat any cough, they were designed for consumption, or tuberculosis patients. The.....
Price: $125.00
Concept Car,Classic Cars,Dodge,Roadsters
[Detroit, Michigan]: Dodge, [1953]. Printed advertisement for the Firearrow, a "new kind of sports car" marketed by Dodge as "fashion flair for the future". Includes photos of the roadster's futuristic dashboard, front and side views. Illustrated bifolium measuring approx. 4" by 7.25" The Dodge Firearrow II was a one-off concept.....
Price: $200.00
Architecture of Childhood, Pretend Play
Pittsburgh PA: William G. Johnston Company, 1920s. A die-cut litho on heavy card stock home with a quasi-tudor style. Complete in a glassine sleeve with directions for building affixed to the sleeve. Besides the pieces for the house includes a 2 1/2" figure; Gretchen to be cut-out and stood next.....
Price: $125.00
Diets and Dieting, Nutrition, Societal Pressures
United States: 1939-c.1970. A group of eight (8) items relating to women's weight loss and dieting in the United States, 1939-c.1970. All are marketed to women, and include basic nutrition information, recipes, and tips for those looking to "reduce" through dieting. Calorie counting is a major theme, as well as.....
Price: $350.00
spa, tan, tanning beds, casino, hotel
Atlantic City, NJ: Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, [1930]. A single fold flyer, done in an art deco style, advertising Haddon Hall, a spa apart of the casino and resort known as Chalfonte-Haddon Hall. The cover of the flyer features a sun with its rays of light shinning down on two figures- a......
Price: $75.00
Patent Medicine
1870s. A 4" x 2 1/2" handbill printed in red on pink paper. The front depicts the exterior of Dundas Dick & Co, Tasteless Medicine Manufactory, 85 & 87 Wooster Street (NYC). The caption explains that by using Dick's capsules any medicine, even castor oil can be tasteless. The reverse.....
Price: $45.00
Advertising, Fashion, Women, Business
Cincinnati, Ohio: Queen City Suspender Company, [1880s?]. Advertisement for Mrs. Smith's Skirt Suspenders, sold by the Queen City Suspender Co. of Cincinnati, with confident claims: "The most desirable and beneficial article ever invented for the relief of women, many of whom have suffered long years of miserable health, caused solely.....
Price: $175.00
Horoscope, Birth Chart, Fortune Telling
Chicago IL: 1904. 8 manuscript page report. Begins with a birth chart and Aspects nad Positions of the Planets followed by Delineation of Character, etc: you know how and what to aim for, Faults to be corrected: guard against losing your temper), Matrimonial Prospects: partner shall be your equal soically.....
Price: $100.00