Labor
Serials,New England Manufacturing,Lumbering,Textile Manufacturing,Automation and Industry,Invention and Innovation
New England: Manufacturers' Gazette, 1881-1898. A significantly large run of the Manufacturer's Gazette, a sixteen-page illustrated weekly newspaper, including its "Lumberjack Edition". This is the single most complete run of this serial we have been able to locate (approx. 9 holding institutions in WorldCat, most with only a small handful.....
Price: $4,500.00
Domestic Work, Advertising to Women
Big Prairie, Ohio: The Monitor Sad Iron Co., c1910. "Save half the time, half the labor and all the worry of ironing day with the Improved Monitor Self-Heating Sad Iron", manufactured by The Monitor Sad Iron Co. Marketed towards homemakers and and domestic workers, this illustrated advertising bifolium includes a......
Price: $95.00
Soil Conservation, Agriculture, Correspondence, History of New York
Berlin, New York: c.1920-1931. A remarkable archive of material belonging to Edward C. (b.1872) and Emily (b.1884) Henrotin, farmers active in Rensselaer County, New York, in the 1920s. Emily was an active conservationist, and one of the first women to be recognized in her field; her husband Edward was equally.....
Price: $425.00
Urban Development,Workers and Labor,Industrialization,Pittsburgh,Foundries
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Trafford Improvement Co., c1910. Printed pamphlet advertising homes for rent in Trafford City, incorporated in 1904 after operations at the Trafford Foundry began in 1903. Workers at the Foundry would have received this pamphlet, which shows fifty homes recently built for their families. The homes are marketed as.....
Price: $150.00
Early Fire Safety and Prevention
Tilton, New Hampshire: Automatic Fire Escape Company, c.1915. Advertising booklet for an "Automatic Fire Escape" marketed to American families and "all classes of owners of buildings" as a compact and "fool proof" method of escaping a fire from an upper level. Includes a lengthy description of the product, which functions.....
Price: $225.00
WWII,Aviation and Pilot Education
United States: 1942-1946. Two (2) items from WWII-era America, published to promote careers in aviation and military service. The first item, published in 1942, was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Office of Education, and calls on teachers to "air-condition" the youth of America: "A boy who.....
Price: $175.00
Vinegar Valentine,Blacksmithing,Penny Dreadful,Comic Valentine
England: N.p., 1860s. A "Blacksmith"-themed Vinegar Valentine, showing a rough-around-the edges blacksmith mid-swing as he pounds what looks like a horseshoe on an anvil. The text below reads: "Mr. Hammer and Tongs, pray go it, sonorous, To that sweet useful tune of the famed 'Anvil Chorus;' Like Vulcan of old.....
Price: $150.00
Agricultural Society, Agricultural Fair, Trenton NY, Broadside
Utica, NY: White & Floyd, 1870. A large format broadside for the Tenth Annual Fair of the Trenton Union Agricultural Society, Trenton, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, Sept. 13, 14, 15, 1870. Includes information on Regulations of the Fair, Programme of the Fair, admission information, information on Governor Horatio Seymour's address.....
Price: $275.00
Social Security, Social Welfare, Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
US Government Printing Office, 1939. 8 pp pamphlet with an image from a photograph of gently "puffing his chest". The content describes the monthly old-age and survivor's insurance benefits beginning January 1, 1940. It describes how to qualify - retire from work, or made at least $50 in each of.....
Price: $100.00
Forges and Tools,American Manufacturing,Material History and Culture
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Scale Co., c.1875. Illustrated bifolium (11.75" by 9"), advertising "Portable forges, blowers and tools" by the Chicago Scale Co. for a variety of uses: machine shops, blacksmithing, jewelers, mills, mines, farms, farrier work, and railroad work. Each forge and tool is illustrated with pricing, dimensions, and materials.....
Price: $175.00
Women and Labor,Women's Clubs and Organizations
United States: National League of Woman Workers, 1904. Scarce issue of "The Club Worker", a serial published by the National League of Woman Workers, an association founded in the late 1890s "in the interest of women workers and the clubs which they have formed ... [and to] stand as a......
Price: $175.00
Pro-Labor, Unions, Union Organizers
1970-1980s. A grouping of eleven (11) promotional items , mostly bumper stickers and details promoting unions and organizing unions. It includes Bumper Stickers Live Better Work Union - UFCW Go Steelworks (small and large sizes) Stop Apartheid - Boycott Shell - UAW-CAP Support Public Education - American Federation of Teachers.....
Price: $400.00
Farming,Account Books, Black American, Indenture (?)
[Danbury, Connecticut?]: 1859-1870. A manuscript account book kept by someone who appears to be in charge of a mid-size farm, most likely in Danbury, Connecticut. Records payments towards goods, services, and especially labor, organized by contractor. One individual, "Sanford", is paid to resole and mend shoes for several individuals including.....
Price: $350.00
International Brotherhood of Teamsters,Labor Unions,Service Organizations
Washington, D.C: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1968-1969. A set of five (5) issues of The International Teamster issued between October 1968 and December 1969. Published for the membership as "the official magazine of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America". The issues include Oct. 1968.....
Price: $350.00
Labor in Wartime,WWII,Gender Roles in Wartime
N.pl: Reader Mail, Inc., 1942. A guide to working in defense jobs for Americans in 1942 looking for a way to support the troops abroad through labor at home. Offers an overview of job training and education, different jobs available (ranging from aviation and engineering to factory work and civil.....
Price: $250.00
Industrial Safety,Trade and Industrial Schools,Health and Safety Education
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, c.1955. An educational booklet for educators and administrators working in industrial and trade schools, offering important information about health and safety for students. Begins with a brief discussion on the prevalence of accidents and the recent call for safety education in schools.....
Price: $200.00
WWII, Workplace Safety, Industry
United States: United States Departments of Labor and Agriculture, 1940. A grouping of four (4) informational booklets highlighting the need for industry at home for victory abroad. Workplace safety is the most common theme, with three of the booklets addressing industrial hazards to workers; the final booklet addresses the need.....
Price: $275.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Deaf Salespeople,History of Deaf Community,American Sign Language
Chicago, Illinois: National Deaf Mute Sales Co, 1954. A scarce promotional folder with needle and thread sold by members of the Deaf community to support themselves. The front reads: "I AM A DEAF MUTE. My Way of Earning an Honest Living is the Selling of These Useful Articles. World's Greatest.....
Price: $275.00
Domestic Work, Homemaking
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, c.1930. Illustrated advertising poster for wax paper, parchment paper, and other products sold by the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, promising housewives "You will enjoy doing housework Quicker, Better and Easier ... and with more pleasing results". Illustrations of the products march along the bottom.....
Price: $150.00
Labor Unions,United Rubber Workers,Labor in the 1960s
[Akron, Ohio]: United Rubber Workers, c.1965. "Vision Needed for Labor's Future": a printed book of inspirational quotes from politicians, poets, social leaders and religious figures throughout history, demonstrating the ongoing struggle labor unions and social advocates face c.1965. Published by United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC, a labor union founded in.....
Price: $125.00
Soil Conservation, Farming, Climate and Environment
Auburn, Alabama: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947. An illustrated children's book teaching young people about soil conservation and responsible farming published by members of the Resource-Use Education Workshop at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Now Auburn University). Sam and Sue discover the wonders of weather, gardening, and conservation of plants, soil, and animals.....
Price: $175.00
Transportation, Mobilization, Welding
The Indianapolis Switch & Frog Co., 25-Nov-19. A letter from the Indianapolis Switch & Frog Co. to the Maintenance Official of Manchester St. RY (Rail yard) in Manchester, NH, promoting their new high speed mounting device for their Portable Electric Welder. This 'mounting device' was essentially a new trailer for.....
Price: $125.00
Leather working, Tanners, Machinery
Boston, Massachusetts: Noble & Brooks, c1870s. Illustrated advertising bifolium for Noble & Brooks, "sole agents for the sale of A. Richardson's Patent Union Leather Splitting Machines, also Dealers in Leather, Tanners' & Curriers' Tools". Includes lithographed illustrations of the various tools and their names. Bifolium (10.5" by 8.25"), lithographed on.....
Price: $225.00
Women in the Workforce,8-hour Work Day
Washington, D.C. Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. A scarce bulletin issued in 1921 by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. The bulletin notes a recent rise in women entering the workforce, and argues that women are physiologically unable to labor the same number.....
Price: $300.00