Ethnicity & Culture Heritage
Dentistry, Dental Products
New York, New York: Curtis & Brown Mfg. Co., Ltd., c.1900. Uncut paper doll advertising a medicinal tooth powder, Brown's camphorated saponaceous Dentifrice". This is listed as "one of seven Costume Dolls of All Nations". This example is the "English Girl", dressed in a neat blue and white frock with.....
Price: $225.00
Camp Fire Girls, Scouts, Youth Groups, Diversity and Inclusion, Women and Friendship
New York, New York: Camp Fire Girls, 1920s. A gathering of nine (9) items from the 1920s relating to an Iowa branch of the youth organization Camp Fire Girls. Highlights include three bound gatherings of typewritten meeting programs with lists of members and officers, as well as a handwritten copy.....
Price: $300.00
Made by Hand, Transformation, Paper Dolls, Overlay, Ethnicity, Metamorphosis
[1860s]. A 3 1/8" somewhat naive watercolor paper doll drawn and cut from pith paper and applied to a plain paper backing. Also includes eight (8) different costumes of various nationalities including Old English, Bohemian, Polish, Circassian, Russian, Italian, Chinese and Prussian. Each in traditional attire with head ware. Each.....
Price: $750.00
Chinese Lore, Print, Social History, Fu Dog, Fu Lion
A pair of 20" x 12" prints depicting an Immortal holding a child with a toy--both on the back of a Fu Dog. Printed on thin washi/tissue paper with hand finished gouache and gilt embellishments. The images are the same image but reversed and printed in different colors. Edge wear.....
Price: $425.00
Patriotism, Oaths, New York State
Binghamton, New York: Defenders of the Flag, c.1896. Printed oath card (3.25"by 5", printed on both sides in red and blue) with large American flag, faintly signed in pencil by Edna A.H. Minger in 1896, cementing her promise to "to always defend the flag" as a member of the Defenders.....
Price: $125.00
ABAA-RBMS-2023, NAACP,Race in America
Portland, Oregon: NAACP, 1978. The official booklet published for 1978 National Convention of the NAACP, hosted by its Portland branch between July 3rd and July 7th of that year. Features artwork by a local high school senior, Marcus Randy McKinley, utilizing the organization's colors of blue and gold. Includes letters.....
Price: $225.00
Feminism in China,Women in the Mao Era,PRC
Peking, China: National Federation of the of the People's Republic of China, 1960. A scarce 1960 issue of the English-language journal, "Women of China", published bimonthly in Peking by the National Federation of the of the People's Republic of China. The aim of this publication was to promote women's equality.....
Price: $300.00
ABAA-HOLIDAY-2024,Tolerance and Racial Equality,International Friendship
North Cambridge, Massachusetts: Central Committee of the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1928. A scarce children's book from 1928, promoting international friendship, tolerance, and racial equality among early learners through the story of a black child and a white child who grow to become friends: "When David and Susi met.....
Price: $150.00