Entertainment & Music
Billiards,Games and Leisure
Ferndale, California: Becker's Billiard Parlors, 1920s. A 10c ticket good for trade-in use at "Becker's Billiard Parlors" in Ferndale, California in the 1920s. Measures approx. 1.5" by 2.5", verso blank.
Price: $100.00
New Year's,Balls and Dances,Invitations
Pittston PA: N.p, 1834. Lithographed invitation, printed on coated card (1.75" by 3") promoting a New Year's Ball given "At the Hall of Capt. Squire Marcy" on January 1st, 1835. Lists the names of managers of the event below, verso blank.
Price: $150.00
American Folk Music,American Popular Culture and Identity,Hutchinson Family Singers,Tickets and Programs
New York, New York: Tribune Print, 1843. A concert program and admit one ticket from an 1843 farewell concert given in New York by the famed Hutchinson Family Singers. The event was held on May 25, 1843 at the Society Library Room, 348 Broadway. The group was tremendously popular at.....
Price: $325.00
Theatrical Broadside,Job Printing,Boston Museum Theater,History of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Museum, 1862. An early 1860s theatrical broadside, printed to promote the August 4th 1862 Monday evening entertainments at the Boston Museum. The theater, which existed between 1841 and 1903, was a popular entertainment venue that also served as a museum and zoo. Headlining this particular evening's entertainments.....
Price: $200.00
Patriotic Ephemera,United States Centennial,Ulysses S. Grant,History of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1876 International Exhibition, 1876. Printed program/order of exercises for the 1876 International Exhibition Opening Ceremonies. The event was held in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia on May 10th, 1876 ahead of the nation's highly anticipated centennial. Includes a list of music performed with lyrics, order of procession, and of course.....
Price: $275.00
Minstrelsy and Black Face in America
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Merrihew & Son, c.1876. Printed program outlining a full night of musical entertainments starring "The Gigantic Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels", a traveling minstrel group popular with the public in the 1870s. As might be expected, one of the biggest numbers includes black face/minstrelsy (one of the numbers is.....
Price: $100.00
Royal Hand-Bell Ringers,Touring Acts
[Kingston, New York]: Liscomb's Opera House, 1895. Printed ticket granting admission to a performance of the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers of London at Liscomb's Opera House in Kingston, New York, in October 1895. The group, directed by Duncan S. Miller, toured often and performed frequently for temperance societies. Using hand bells.....
Price: $150.00
Entertanment, Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY: 1895. 1895 vaudeville program for the Hyde and Behman's Theatre, week commencing May 5, Brooklyn. Comedy, marionettes, pantomime. 4to bifolium printed in red and black (13" by 10").
Price: $100.00
History of Roller Coasters and Amusements,Atlantic City
Atlantic City, New Jersey: Young's Million Dollar Pier, 1903. A fun novelty badge produced in 1903 for lovers of the "Loop the Loop", a.k.a. the "Flip Flap Railway", in Atlantic City, New Jersey. An early example of the roller coaster, it was designed and built in 1901 by Edward A......
Price: $150.00
Entertainment, Waterman's Pen, Advertising and Promotion
Brooklyn, NY: 1909. Printed program for the week of August 23rd, 1909, of the Brighton Theatre in Coney Island: "Ladies will kindly remove their large hats". Dancing, orchestral music, comedy. 8vo (9" by 5"), pp. [20], original illus. wrappers with mermaids and Poseidon. Fills with ads for local Brooklyn and.....
Price: $125.00
Masks,Material Culture,Theater Costumes, Racism, Discrimination
New York, New York: Gustav Klippert, 1910s. Printed handbill advertising the sale of paper mache, gauze, wax, and satin masks for events ranging from costume balls to Christmas parties. Offerings include a large paper mache radish head "about one yard high", devil masks, imported French Domino satin masks for masquerades.....
Price: $275.00
Circuses and Carnival Entertainment,Hotels,Vaudeville,Minstrel and Depictions of Race
United States: 1910s-1930s. A whimsical collection of 1910s-1930s ephemera related to circuses and carnival acts, including illustrated letterheads, postcards, handbills, and hotel stationary. Collected by one individual who was, presumably, a traveling performer, it is a unique collection in that it contains stationary from the fancy hotels he (she?) was.....
Price: $3,200.00
Mary Pickford,Actresses and Starlets of the Silent Film Era
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Bluebird Theatre, 1916. A scarce bit of advertising ephemera from Mary Pickford's Paramount era, promoting a showing of her 1916 film "Poor Little Peppina" in Philadelphia. Other starlets listed include Hazel Dawn, Blanche Sweet, Mary Boland, and Beverly Bayne. Printed on pink card and measuring approx. 5.5" by.....
Price: $85.00
Pre-Code Hollywood,Early Sexploitation Made Sex Education
New York, New York: The American Social Hygiene Association, 1937. A set of educational ephemera published to accompany the 1933 Canadian-American film "Damaged Lives", directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film, considered by some to be an early form of sexploitation film, was spun by the studio's marketing team as.....
Price: $350.00
Music History, Music and Pop Culture, American Music Culture
United States: 1930s. A section removed from a scrap book compiled c.1930s by a banjo player and popular music enthusiast, including three real photo postcards and other photos of himself posing with his banjo, his dog ("Prince and Me-- Both dogs"), and his car. Includes a March 1926 newspaper clipping.....
Price: $225.00
music, music teacher, choir, singing, advertise
Boston, MA: G. W. Dudley, September 1875. A single page advertisement for singing and voice lessons taught by George. W. Dudley. He offered 20 lessons at $60 or 10 lessons for $35 with half the tuition due at the time of the first lesson. Dudley was a member of the.....
Price: $95.00
Community Church Of the Air, Swalm Brothers Quartette, radio, music, advertising, religion
Harrisburg, PA: Community Church Of the Air, [February 1933]. This flyer is for three different musical groups: the Community Church of the Air, The Swalm Brothers Quartette, and the Boys Orchestra. However the flyer supplies little information beyond the performers names and the black and white printed photograph of each.....
Price: $65.00
Americana, Evangelism, Lectures
[Brooklyn, New York]: J.C.. Stevens, 1917. Advertising card for a free lecture by evangelist J.C.. Stevens given in Brooklyn on August 5th, 1917, "At the Tent". J.C.. Stevens evangelized in the late 1910s, offering free public lectures with titles such as "Is the Great War the Last the World Will.....
Price: $150.00
advertising, medicine, pharmacist, music, song card
Bridgeport, OH: H. E. Wells & Co., [1885]. An advertising card for H. E. Wells & Co., a family druggist from Bridgeport, OH. Based on the brief description on the card, it appears as though Wells sold remedies for both humans and farm animals, like horses and cattle. On the.....
Price: $100.00
Panorama, Humor, Masons, Aleppo, Shriners
Boston, Massachusetts: Aleppo Temple, 1922. An early 1920's poster advertising a meeting and annual outing for the Aleppo Shriners. The printed poster (26.25" by 11") contains information about the events on the front along with humorous cartoons; on the back, it features a large panorama printed in yellow and black.....
Price: $250.00
American Iconography,Stars and Stripes,National and Personal Identity,Culture and Country,Gender and Patriotism
United States: 1858-1940s. A collection of one hundred seven (107) items exploring the relationship between American flag iconography and the late 19th and early 20th century popular music. The items, which are comprised mainly of sheet music and lyric booklets, range in date from 1858 to the 1940s, and spanning.....
Price: $7,500.00
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
History of New York,Banquet Menus
New York City: Southern Hotel, 1901. A 1901 menu produced for the 1901 Annual Banquet of the Apollo Club, held at the Southern Hotel in Manhattan. Dishes served include filet mignon, roast snipe, potatoes Parisienne, and "fancy ices with strawberries" and cake to finish. Amontillado, Sauterine, Champagne and of course.....
Price: $125.00
Entertainment, Celebration, Historical Memorabilia
1872. Printed music appendix for the World's Peace Jubilee, held in 1872 in Boston. Contains 35 pp. of sheet music. 8vo (10" by 6.5"), pp. 35, [1], original printed peach wrappers. The World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival of 1872 took place in the Back Bay area of Boston.....
Price: $175.00