Food & Wine
The Story of Crisco, Things to Remember, Hints to Young Cooks, Methods of Cooking, How to Choose Foods, Methods of Cooking, The Art of Carving, Soups, Puddings, Pastries, Cakes, Candies, Calendar of Dinners
Neil, Marion Harris. A "Calendar of Dinners" with 615 Recipes including The Story of Crisco. The Procter & gamble Co. Cincinnati. 1913 Sixteenth Edition. Hard cover. 231pp. Contents include The Story of Crisco, Things to Remember, Hints to Young Cooks, Methods of Cooking, How to Choose Foods, Methods of Cooking.....
Price: $65.00
Coffee,Dry and General Goods,Advertising,Mail Order Samples
United States: c.1880. A sample of coffee beans sent from an unknown dry goods store or coffee roaster via the mail c.1880. The beans are housed in their original metal tin with wooden top, which screws securely onto the tin via a metal screw. Printed label marked Howe's Sample Mail.....
Price: $350.00
Steamers and Liners,Menus,Maritime and Shipping History
[Quebec]: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, 1898. A printed menu for breakfast on the steamer S.S. Carolina in 1898, with designs of destinations and natural sights on the front by A.G. Racey (e.g. Montreal, Cliffs of Murray Bay). Inside, there is a wine list on the right and a menu.....
Price: $125.00
Society of the Cincinnati, George Washington, American History, Societies and Clubs, Gastronomy and Fine Dining
Princeton, New Jersey: Bailey Banks & Biddle Co., 1926. A fine photo-illustrated menu produced to commemorate the dinner given at the Princeton Inn for the General Society of the Cincinnati by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey, in May 1926. Contains the evening's menu, and.....
Price: $250.00
Advertising, Seed Treatment
Three (3) different 2-fold promotional brochures for Bayer seed treatment products, each with illustrations of the product or products being treated. They include How to treat Seed Potatoes with Dipdust, How to treat Truck and Garden Crops with Dipdust and How to treat Seed Corn with Seed Corn Disinfectant. Each.....
Price: $125.00
Account Book,History of Massachusetts,Daily life and Commerce in 19th Century New England
Exeter, Massachusetts: 1824-1830. Manuscript account book kept by Benjamin Clark of Exeter, Massachusetts (dates unknown), between 1824 and 1830. The account book has been filled with what appears to be debts owed to Clark, as well as mileage traveled. A representative example of the entries: "Mr. John Gardner, Debtor 20.....
Price: $175.00
printer, printing, printer samples. dairy, advertising, advertisement
New York: McTee & Co Inc, 1929. The Advertising Campaign Portfolio was produced by McTee & Company Inc for Glendale Milk in 1929. McTee & Company was New York based advertising firm run by John Bevans, a novelist poet and advertising man, who produced ads that both “that tell your.....
Price: $225.00
eggs, kitchen appliances, business, circular, advertisement, testimonial, correspondence, mailing list
Newburyport, MA: Hale & Company, 1866. A circular filled with testimonials for the Aerifying Egg Beater patented in 1866 and produced by Hale & Company in Newburyport, MA. The first page has a wonderful woodcut of the manufacturing building of Hale & Co., along with a description of of the.....
Price: $175.00
Tea, Chromolithography, Advertising to Children
[United States]: Tetley's Teas, c.1890s. A rather charming illustrated book of nursery rhymes advertising Tetley's Teas, choc-full of anthropomorphics. Measures 5.25" by 5.25", pp. [8] with in-text illustrations, stapled in original chromolithographed illustrated wrappers. Black ink stamp of Bakie Brothers of Kingston, New Hampshire to upper cover. Partially erased pencil.....
Price: $115.00
collections & archives, food & wine, recipes, women's work, advertising
United States: Various, 1919-1949. A seven (7) piece collection of recipe books relating to weird and unusual food. This strangeness can be do the recipe books almost religious adherence to using an unusual ingredient in every dish or to recipes that are either actually bizarre or just unfamiliar to modern.....
Price: $300.00
anthropomorphism, advertising to children, root beer, fairy tale, animal
Philadelphia, PA: Charles E. Hires Company, c1915. This advertising booklet was produced by the Charles E. Hires Company to advertise Hires Root Beer. It is meant to be a continuation of a previous advertisement booklet called, "The Kings Nectar, A Legend", that told the story of Alice who won golden.....
Price: $100.00
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
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
menus, food and wine
Blank Advertising Menu printed in red ink by Imp, Bataille-Paris. Features Art Nouveau woman in flowing gown holding flower and decorative flowers. B. Leon Croizet Grande Champagne and St. Meme Cognac. "The Cognac region in France is divided into six districts, with the Grande Champagne district being the most prestigious.....
Price: $75.00
advertisement, recipes, cooking, women's work, soap, Dobbins Electric Soap, testimonials
Philadelphia, PA: I. L. Cragin & Co., [1890]. An advertising booklet for Dobbins Electric Soap, a laundry soap produced by I. L. Cragin. The company used 'electric' in the title to in order to capitalize on people's fascination with electricity at that time. The soap itself was formulated with a......
Price: $65.00
Eggs and Dairy,American Dream in Marketing
Plymouth, Ohio: Honey Creek Poultry Farm, 1915. A promotional booklet for Honey Creek Poultry Farm, marketing itself in 1915 as the "Largest producers of twenty-four hour eggs and squab chicken broilers in the world". Begins with a faux story of "Mr. Cityman" sitting down to breakfast with his wife, and.....
Price: $125.00
Menus and Bills of Fare, Humor, Gender Roles, Racism
United States: 1894. Please note Racist Language. A tongue-in-cheek "Bill of Fare" for a "Conundrum Social" given by a (fictional?) Ladies' Aid Society. Attendees can order main dishes such as "Women of Grit" or desserts such as "Spilled Type". Measures 8.75" by 5.25" A bit of a commentary on social.....
Price: $150.00
Family Nutrition,Marketing Dairy to Families,The American Diet,Anthropomorphized
N.pl: P.L. Co, 1940. Folding illustrated advert for "Borden's Irradiated Vitamin D Milk", marketed to mothers of infants and small children as being packed with nutritious vitamins for the prevention of childhood diseases such as rickets. In this context, the term "irradiated" roughly means "pasteurized" or "sterilized". Features small cartoon.....
Price: $125.00
Illustration Art,Food & Wine,Victoriana
A three-part 19" x 11" charmstring style drop calendar for 1901.Each of the three ovals with thorny vine and rose border decoration a fine chromolithograph illustration of food and/or wine at center with four (4) calendar months. Accompanied by the verse Bounteous Gifts - May the gates of plenty, honor.....
Price: $135.00
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
Language of Flowers, Cossacks, Chromolithography
Boston, Massachusetts: Joseph Burnett & Co., 1880. Illustrated booklet advertising patent medicines and other products produced by Joseph Burnett & Co., including Burnett's Cocoaine ("Prevents the Hair from falling"), Burnett's Asthma Remedy, cologne water, and even a line of flavoring extracts for desserts. Includes a calendar for the year 1880.....
Price: $150.00
Chocolate
New York, New York: John B. Rey, c.1845. An elegantly designed chocolate wrapper, lithographed in gold on coated black paper, measuring approx. 6.5" by 8". Advertises "Chocolat à la Vanille" produced by John B. Rey of 33 Burling Slip, on the lower shore of Manhattan. Rey also manufactured cordials, syrups.....
Price: $65.00
menu, food and wine, advertising
Blank Advertising Menu printed in red ink by Imp, Bataille-Paris. Features Art Nouveau woman in flowing gown holding flower and decorative flowers. B. Leon Croizet Grande Champagne and St. Meme Cognac. Binet Champagne is a French champagne house, it was founded in 1849 by Louis Binet.10" x 7"
Price: $85.00
Advertising to Children, Root Beer, Hires
Philadelphia: Charles E. Hires Company, 1934. The Charles E. Hires Company produced Hires Root Beer, which was first introduced in 1876 and is considered the second longest continuously made soft drink in the United State (now owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple Group). Charles Hire believed firmly in the power of.....
Price: $100.00