Posters, Prints & Photography
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
Chelsea Art Festival, New York City, Bessie Boris, Alex Katz, Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero
196,519,661,967. Group of three offset litho prints promoting the Chelsea Art Festival (20th St. New York) for 1965-1967. The second through fifth annual events. The abstract art of Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero, pink-tone palms of Alex Katz and the solitary worrisome young woman of Bessie Boris. Largest measures 22" by 17"...
Price: $850.00
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Cincinnati: Ault & Wiborg Company, 1895. Image of a maiden exemplifying the vibrant inks used by The Ault & Wiborg Company. The queen of hearts arrives - artistic printing. Captioned "Makers of Inks for the Lithographic and Letter Press Trade. Color - brilliant Scarlet Lake 365-01 Image on reverse promotes.....
Price: $250.00
Typography, Broadsides, Land Development
Charleston, South Carolina: Consumers Coal Company, 1890s. Printed broadside advertising large swaths of farm land for sale in South Carolina by Consumers Coal Company, with a quirky typographical inclusion: the word "coal" has been designed out of small coal-like black shapes. Prices for parcels ranged from $2 to $25 per.....
Price: $150.00
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
Metallurgy, Decorative Wire Work
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Oliver Whyte & Co., c.1890. Handbill advertising decorative wire window guards for "stores, dwellings, school-houses, &c." as well as "ornamental patterns for Bank and Office railings", wire netting and cloths. Two illustrated examples of the products on offer are featured towards the head of the handbill. Measures 8.5".....
Price: $150.00
Advertising Supplements,Furniture, Broadside,Price List
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Mann Brothers, 1885. A large (16.5" by 23") illustrated supplement advertising furniture manufactured by Mann Brothers, including solid wooden chairs, cribs, high chairs, and baby carriages. Twelve of the items are illustrated, with pricing for twenty-five different models total, all with pricing.
Price: $175.00
Color Theory, Composition, Art for Children
Battle Creek, Michigan, and Boston, Massachusetts: General Foods and Artbilt Publishers, 1933. An uncut paper play set poster (30" by 20.75", color-printed, recto only) produced by General Foods that helps young children "Learn, through play, the actual principles of art-- composition, perspective and color-harmony! No artistic ability is required to.....
Price: $325.00
real estate, auction, land, shipping, bank, quarry, business
Rockland, ME: Ship Builders Bank, 1855. This notice of sale was for nine different pieces of property in and around Rockland, ME all owned by the Shipbuilder's Bank, a small privately owned bank. The auction most likely was a way for the bank to settle outstanding debt incurred by Rockland.....
Price: $225.00
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King's Lynn, Norfolk, England: Printed by Ann Turner, 1838. Printed poster promoting the sale of two pews from St Margaret's Church in King's Lynn, England, a church founded in 1100 and known as King's Lynn Minster since 2011. Measures 15" by 9.5". On verso, in contemporary ink, is the following.....
Price: $325.00
advertisement, food & wine, household & furnishing
New York, NY: Jabez Burns & Sons, [1860]. An illustrated broadside for a spice mill by Jabez Burns & Sons, a coffee and spice machinery business located in New York, NY. The ad is for their improved 'Challenge' Spice Mill, which was billed as a "a perfect portable Burr Stone.....
Price: $125.00
Donald McKay,Theatrical Broadside,Job Printing,History of Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York: New Park Theatre, [1874?]. Printed theatrical broadside advertising a performance of "Donald McKay: The Hero of the Madoc War", starring "The Popular Young American Star" Oliver Doud Byron. Includes an exciting list of things for audiences to expect in the performance, including: "Thrilling Situations. Battle Scenes in.....
Price: $300.00
Inventions and Innovation in Transportation
Albany, New York: Boardman, Gray & Co., 1880s? Printed broadside advertising "Lord's Patent Perch Coupling", a new invented mechanism for carriages/buggies. Includes a list of advantages of the mechanism for carriage makers (e.g. less wear and tear, more durable than other similar mechanisms). Interesting to note that the business began.....
Price: $125.00
Broadside, Carrier's Address, Holiday Greetings, Advertising and Promotion
1850. A 17 1/2" x 10 1/2" broadside with a woodcut of a watchman walking between numbers 24 and 26 thus depicting Christmas. A poem at base titled On the Return of Christmas Day, 1850. A Watchman's Calendar for 1851 at base. Extensive elaborate decorative border decoration with vignettes of.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-SPRING-2026,Social Justice, Activism, Theater, College Organizations, New Haven May Day 1970, Black Panthers
New Haven, Connecticut: 1971-1975. A fine collection of ninety-three (93) posters, many related to social justice initiatives spearheaded by students at Yale, spanning the years 1971 and 1975. There are seven (7) categories of posters in this collection including: concerts; film screenings; lectures; meetings; plays and performances; protests; and religious.....
Price: $4,800.00
politics, government, state government, tammany hall, budget, corruption
New York: [1871-1872]. A political flyer condemning the corruption by the Democratic Party, and more specifically the Tammany Hall and its Grand Sachem, William M. Tweed (1823-1878). Tammany Hall, alternately called the Tammany Society, Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Colombian Order, was a political.....
Price: $150.00
Depression Dance
[Cleveland, Ohio?]: St. John's Social Club, 1932. A small printed flyer for a "Depression Dance" held on the evening of Sunday, May 8th, 1932. Given by St. John's Social Club, with the following entertainment: Joe Kasper and His Harmonica Serenaders; Tap Dancers Icandella & Eckenrod; and music by the Jolly.....
Price: $225.00
vintage art poster, original art poster,
Title :Deutschen Volkspartei! Ihr Seid auch Burger und gehort daher auch zur Deutschen Volkspartei! (German Peoples Party) Designer: Printer: Muhlmeister & Johler, Hamburg Year: c1918 Condition: Excellent. Mounted on Linen. Category: Propaganda Top Loosely translated - captioned with "craftsmen, tradesmen and laborers" followed by "You are the people and belongs.....
Price: $400.00
advertisement, printing, posters
New York: C S Pratt, October 1895. Charles Pratt was an early promoter of the poster arts in the United States. He had a store in New York City and in the fall of 1895 he arranged the first ever exhibition of artistic posters from American printers and published. The.....
Price: $100.00
Facsimiles,Novelties and Memorabilia,Civil War History
N.pl: N.p, 1920s. A facsimile of a piece of Civil War realia, printed roughly in the 1920s. The facsimile is of an 1863 issue of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen "copied from the original, printed by the Confederate Printer, Mr. Swords, at Vicksburg, Miss., on wall-paper, in 1863 ... all they.....
Price: $100.00
Literary Poster
Harper & Brothers, 1905. A 23" x 14 1/2" literary poster promoting the a novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist and playwright.
Price: $175.00
German People's Part, DVP, Political, Nazi
Hamburg, Germany: Muhlmeister & Johler, c1930. A political poster for Deutschen Volkspartei (DVP), otherwise known as the German People's Party, a German political party that was the successor to the National Liberal Party. DVP was founded in 1918 and was a "right-wing liberal" party. It was eventually dissolved in 1933.....
Price: $250.00
Pen Nib,Penmanship
New York, New York: Aikin Lambert & Co, 1890s. A comic pen nib advertisement, chromolithographed in blue and red tones. Depicts a Roman coliseum with a packed crowd cheering on a victor looming over his opponent; the victor holds a pen with Aiken Lambert brand nib, and the loser has.....
Price: $125.00
Pastoral,Hand-colored etching
England: 1840s. An attractive hand-colored etching depicting a gentleman with a rapier stopping to admire the beauty of a young country maiden. Two men harvest wheat in the background in front of a forest and a country estate home. Adorned with twelve delicate silver sequins sewn to the paper with.....
Price: $300.00