Ethnic/Cultural History
Ethical Business Practices,Advertising to Homemakers
Detroit, Michigan: La Choy Food Products, Inc., 1937. Advertising booklet for a Detroit-based Chinese food product company, including recipes for American homemakers ranging from Chow Mein Noodles to Water Chestnut Souffle. Advertises canned and jarred foods available from the company, and capitalizes on the craze for Asian foods, arts, and.....
Price: $225.00
African American, Fraternal, Get Rich Quick
New York City. A 2 1/2" x 4" business card for Days Work -- of all Kinds, by Trained Workers - Laundresses, Cleaners, Seamstresses, Cooks Etc. Reverse is blank. Surface wear. According to the Christadelphia Advocate the exchange was part of a get rich quick scheme. In 1906, the Christadelphia.....
Price: $32.00
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
Native Americans, Ethnicity, Indian Lore, Social History
Wisconsin Dells, Wis. 1930. A single-fold 7 3/8" x 4" brochure with an image from a photograph of the Chief Yellow Thunder in traditional attire on the front cover. The grandson of the original Yellow Thumder. The brochure provides historical information on the Chief and the "Thunder Clan". His topics.....
Price: $95.00
Japonism, Advertising and Promotion, Broadside, Fancy Goods
Boston: A. Stowell & Co., [1870s]. A 10 1/2" x 9 1/2" rice paper broadside with an illustration of toads among the bamboo reeds as a heron flies overhead. It is captioned Holiday Goods and titled "Some of Our Inducements for the Holidays". Followed by a list of various novelty.....
Price: $375.00
program, ball, the pilgrimage
Natchez, Mississippi: Natchez Garden Club, 1936. Single-fold program for the Confederate Ball, a pageant put on by the Natchez Garden Club in Natchez, Mississippi. Since 1932 the garden club has done a fall and spring pilgrimage, where owners of historic homes in the area open their homes for guided tours.....
Price: $95.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Victorian Travel and Tourism
New York, New York: Thomas Cook & Son, 1879. Vol. 29, No. 10 of "Cook's Excusionist", a serial devoted to domestic and foreign travel edited by the "Tourists and Excursion Managers" Thomas Cook & Son of London and New York. The serial appears to be advertising heavily towards a newly.....
Price: $475.00
History of Fashion,Word Fashion,Traditional Costumes and Dress,Original Artwork and Fashion Designs
United States: 1960s. A sketchbook with original artwork kept by a fashion student in the 1960s, charting their journey through the history of fashion across the globe. The sketchbook contains three elements. The first element is a series of eighteen (18) pages with over ninety (90) illustrations that have been.....
Price: $175.00
Song Sheet, Monograph, Social History, Crinoline, Discrimination
Digbeth, Birmingham, UK: W. Pratt, c859. Woodcut of a well dressed yet sizable woman obviously wearing crinoline beneath her dress. Yet another parody on the oft maligned crinoline, but worse yet discrimination as it relates to size.. The chorus reads What dresses now the ladies have, It really is surprising.....
Price: $200.00
International Friendship,Cultural Heritage as Play,Tolerance
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1918. A set of ten (10) uncut standing paper dolls of different cultural backgrounds in traditional dress with accompanying uncut animal paper dolls. Reinforces themes of international friendship and tolerance for American children. Housed in the original illustrated envelope. includes a leaf of directions, several.....
Price: $325.00
Paper Dolls, Culture and Ethnicity, Social History, Pretend Play
c1840s. A set including two (2) single-sided 6 3/4" female paper dolls and eight (8) costumes depicting regional variances from various nations in Europe. Each of the costumes is lithograph with an egg wash finish. Also includes a 6" x 8 1/2" sheet depicting all eight costumes, again with egg.....
Price: $1,400.00
Ethnicity, Latin America, Paper Dolls, Social History,
USA: Saalfield, ArtCraft, No. 1723, c1960. A 12 1/2" x 10 1/2" book with six (6) paper dolls to cut out from the the covers. Each is dressed in Hispanic influenced attire. Includes four (4) pages of festive traditional costumes to cut for the dolls. Each garment is labeled with.....
Price: $85.00
International Friendship,Paper Dolls of Different Nations,Childhood and Nationality
Japan: 1920s. Five (5) uncut punch-out paper dolls made in Japan for the Western market, probably children in America or Great Britain. Each of the dolls is illustrated on a separate sheet and has been partially punched for easy removal from the sheet. They represent three different nationalities: Great Britain.....
Price: $275.00
ABAA-SPRING-2026,
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co, 1905. From Milton Bradley, a "Novel and Exciting Game" for two or more players allowing them to tell each other's "fortunes". This set is near-complete with the lower box lid (approx. 9.25" by 7.25" by 1"), printed directions sheet (bifolium 7" by 8.5"), and die-cut.....
Price: $350.00
international fashion, Cuba, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Paraguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Bolivia, Peru
Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1944. The front cover of this book shows Mariachi band playing and looking up to some windows where three woman can be seen. All the outfits are are considered traditional outfits from Central and South America. Each outfit is identified by the country the style.....
Price: $70.00
Immigration,Assimilation,American Citizenship
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, c.1925. "Make America your country as well as your home": a printed guide from Met Life Insurance on how to complete the first steps of obtaining U.S. citizenship (i.e. naturalization), part of its "Aids to Citizenship Series". Features Lady Liberty on the.....
Price: $200.00
Dance Cards,German Heritage and Identity,Balls and Masquerades
[Mystic, Connecticut]: Social Society Frohsinn, 1911. Chromolithographed dance card for a February, 1911 masked ball hosted by a German heritage club, complete with attached miniature pencil and featuring an attractive embossed chromolithographed image of a masked woman on the front. Most likely the Frohsinn Hall in Mystic, Connecticut, which was.....
Price: $125.00
![Item #22000890 Official Programme [for] Celebration of Empire Day](https://eclectibles.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22000890_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1735751044)
WWI, Empire and Imperialism, Cross-cultural, Colonization, Anglophilia, Benefits, Red Cross
San Francisco, California: British American League, 1918. "Be Proud of Your Island Ancestry and the Blood the Flows in Your Veins", urges the lower wrapper of this programme for Empire Day, held by the British American League and British American War Relief Fund. Held towards the end of WWI in.....
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll Greeting Cards,Travel,Traditional Dress,International Friendship, Gender Roles
United States: c.1930. A scarce intact example of a paper doll greeting card from c.1930, with a cut paper doll of a little girl who can be dressed up in two different outfits and inserted into the front of the card to show her driving. The two different outfits are.....
Price: $125.00
Penny Magazine,Serials,Shield of Achilles,Homer,Ornithology,Whig,British Politics,Rubber,Anthropology,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
London, England: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832. The British Whig MP Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), is credited with forming The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1826 to promote scientific and artistic ideas, and highlight achievements of Western civilization. The Penny.....
Price: $100.00
International Friendship,Tolerance Through Play
United States: N.G.Y., 1910s. A scarce grouping of twelve (12) uncut paper dolls, each of a different nationality and performing its own "native dance" and encouraging international friendship and tolerance. Each doll has at least two outfits that slip over their heads with accessories and hats. All are girls, and.....
Price: $300.00
State and Local Historical Societies
Washington, D.C. American Historical Association, 1906. An offprint "reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1905, Vol. I, pages 249-325" (upper wrapper), reporting on the a meeting of the American Historical Association in which was discussed the current state of local historical societies in.....
Price: $85.00
Redfield's Toy Books, Indians of North America, Abduction, Mohawk, Wyandot Indians
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, n.d. 24 pp. wrapper with 8 illustrations. This chapbook is apart of Redfield's Toy Books: Four Series of Twelve Books Each. This book is the from the fourth series, No. 12. On the back cover it lists the names of all the books in all.....
Price: $60.00
ABAA-HOLIDAY-2024,Fortune Telling Games,Depiction of Indigenous Polynesian Peoples in America
Sonoma, California: Noolcam Company, 1950s. A complete set of "Samoana Fortune Telling Cards", a delightfully kitschy 1950s parlor game created for the American market featuring a pin-up style Samoan woman on the box and claiming to be "founded on South Pacific Native Symbols". This set is complete with all forty-five.....
Price: $500.00