Albums - Scrap, Photo etc.
Boys' Camps and Camping,YMCA,Boyhood,Snapshots
Southwick, Massachusetts: 1910. A one-of-a-kind photo and narrative album memorializing the summer of 1910 at Camp Congamond. The camp was first held in 1908 for Y.M.C.A. boys, and was located at Congamond Lake in Southwick, Massachusetts. A later iteration would also be established for girls. The present photo album contains.....
Price: $475.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Batavia,Civil War,History of New York State
Batavia, New York: 1854-1886. A photo album containing ten (10) original photographs of Batavia, New York, and environs. Captions are dated. Views include: main street (1854); a store decorated in honor of the return of Union soldiers (1865); S. Main Street (1870); a row of shops (n.d.); the "Old Arsenal".....
Price: $275.00
Scrapbooking, Chromolithography, Decals
Germany: Abzieh-Bilder, 1880s. Two (2) brown paper envelopes, each measuring 6" by 5", with chromolithographed onlays advertising Abzieh-Bilder Transfer Pictures, i.e., Victorian scrapbook transfer patterns made in Germany for use in the United States. Each envelope depicts a beautiful young woman holding a bouquet of roses. "Decalmanie" and "Calcomania" are.....
Price: $75.00
Serials,Newspaper Clippings,Albums,History of Connecticut
Vernon, Connecticut: 1880s. An album of newspaper clippings compiled by what appears to be one individual in Connecticut (most likely Vernon or Tolland) in the 1880s. Each of the clippings has been pasted onto the pages of a bound "Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture" dated 1881. The clippings range.....
Price: $750.00
whimsy, silhouettes,poetry,album
A 9-page album, with various original cut silhouette works, each signed W. S. Subject matter ranges from true whimsy to one or two that are a bid forlorn or maudlin. Includes playful penguins, either a Centaur or Goat frolicking on a river bank with pixies, pixies playing amongst hatching chicks.....
Price: $400.00
Baby Book
New York, New York: 1914. The baby book of Elwood Williams III (1914-1982), housed in the original box. It was gifted to his parents by his father's employer, James A. Hearn & Son, with an engraved label on the upper lid that reads in part that they "extend with this.....
Price: $200.00
Baby Books, Childhood, Post-Mortem
United States: 1929. A lovingly produced and heartbreaking baby book with hand-painted silk album cover for Richard Elton Chalker (1929-1930), a baby who died at the age of 7 months of bronchial pneumonia and whooping cough. The book includes: a two-page typewritten account of the baby's illness and subsequent death.....
Price: $275.00
Baby Books, Childhood, Family Albums, WWI, Phoenix
[Phoenix, Arizona]: c.1917. The baby book of Amie (a.k.a. Amy) Lois Bivin (b.1917) a pictorial history with twenty (20) original photographs, a small 1917 calendar, and scraps of typewritten verse. The album itself was published as a bridal book, complete with a faux certificate of marriage, filled out in ink.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Transit and Travel, Ephemera Collecting, Albums and Scrapbooks
St. Louis, Missouri: c.1907. A quirky album of c.1907 streetcar and railway tickets, most for the St. Louis Transit Company. Includes several "Employee's Tickets" with the names of John and Annie Herzkh(?) in pencil. John's name has also been scrawled in pencil in a couple places. Evidently the pair enjoyed.....
Price: $550.00
Social History, Telegram, Love and Friendship
1950. The brightly colored telegrams are congratulations on the marriages of Jean Pier Stockhelm to Laura Jane Spooner of Memphis and a second wedding, that of Nicole Fraipont to Michael Stockhelm. Also includes wedding pictures, children's pictures from the 1940s and 1950s. Housed in somewhat worn leather album. Measures 10".....
Price: $225.00
yearbook, high school, tennis, dance, dance card
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1925. The scrap book album belongs to Dorothy Bradford who attended North Central High School, in Spokane, WA. A portion of the album also covers her time at Havermale Junior High School. The first third of the album is full of newspaper clippings dealing with either.....
Price: $400.00
Homemaking and Domestic Work,Home Economics,Mid-century Women's Education,Proto-Pinterest
United States: 1950s. A home economics scrap book project made by an unidentified young lady and aspiring homemaker, receiving an "A" from her teacher with the following comment on the upper pastedown: "Examples are excellent." The student has pasted magazine clippings into the album and labeled them carefully in ink.....
Price: $400.00
Monograms and Crests, Social History
United Kingdom. 25 gilt edge light board leaves with over 600 monograms and crests encountered and preserved by one individual in his day to day life. Includes individuals, presumably acquaintances, municipalities, associations, institutions, etc. A surname has been penned adjacent several of the images. With the exception of the first.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-SPRING-2026,
A book of musings by an unidentified gentleman with the first entry on September 27th, 1825. 66 leaves. Created by a creative sort and includes circular verses, picture cyphers, cutouts from pith paper engravings, poety and excellent scrap composition. Entries include To the Flower called Forget me not!, A recipe.....
Price: $575.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Baby Book
May 26th,1890. 12 leaves. vellum, bound with braided silk tie. Cover reads "Baby's Book" With quote at top "each day sees some rare unfolding of the sweet young life, the dawning of a new intelligence" from A Child Shall Lead Them. Elaborately penned with watercolor illustrations. The next page is.....
Price: $900.00
Made by Hand, Advertising, Marble Works
Four (4) different naive pencil and/or watercolor drawings promoting the marble works. Three of the four are mounted on what appears to be a page from an album with embossed frames. Also includes a watercolor cameo at center when lifted exposing a watch paper with his name and location in.....
Price: $350.00
Victorian Scrap Album,Kindergarten Art,Froebel,Valentines,Works by Children
1880s. If you are looking for an all inclusive Victorian scrap album, this album may fit the bill. It includes valentines, a reward of merit, a punch paper ABC cross-stitch, a pencil drawing of the state of Massachusetts complete with major cities, silk fringed greeting cards, two (2) hand made.....
Price: $950.00
Children at Play,Victorian Scrap
England: 1880s. A large well-preserved Victorian scrap, chromolithographed and embossed, measuring approx. 4.25" by 6.75". The image depicts four children playing with their dog in a country meadow. The caption in the upper left-hand corner reads, "Down in the meadows, it's jolly to play, Riding old Rover This fine holiday.".....
Price: $125.00
bridge, card games, playing cards,WWII, World War 2, military history, pacific ocean theater
New York: Educational Press, Inc, 1950. Russell W Roosen was an expert bridge player from Detroit, Michigan. He competed professionally in the game as well as taught classes and gave lectures at the local country clubs. This album is a scrap book, filled with newspaper clippings and other memorabilia. Throughout.....
Price: $175.00
Polio,Infantile Paralysis,Pre-Polio Vaccine
Ohio: 1949-1952. A moving album charting the recovery of a teenage girl with infantile paralysis at the height of the Polio crisis. Carolyn Ann Wheat Latimer (1934-2004) was struck with Polio at the age of 13 in 1949, and spent six months in an iron lung. She was confined to.....
Price: $650.00
social & cultural, correspondence, printing & writing, fountain pens, Waterman fountain pens,
New York, NY: L. E. Waterman Company, 1929. The booklet was produced by the L. E. Waterman Company, who sold a variety of stationary goods, but is perhaps most well known for their luxury fountain pens. It essentially functions as a 'How-to' guide for what is to be considered socially.....
Price: $150.00
teacher, retirement, poem, humor, photograph, humor
Queens, NY: PS19, Jun-41. A memoir book presented to Rose A. Maguire, an elementary school teacher, upon her retirement in June 1951. She taught at a school located in Queens, NY called PS 19 Corona (now known as Marino Jeantet Elementary). The memoir book features over fifty pages of short.....
Price: $275.00
Sewing Specimens, Advance sewing technique, Pedagogy
Album of sewing samples by Miss G. C. Ayres. United States, c.1900. 4to album (9.25" by 7.5"). Approx. 75 blank leaves bound in original three quarter sheep and marbled paper sides. Contains approx. 18 sewing samples, with at least two appearing to be missing. Techniques/features include: running stitch; folding paper.....
Price: $350.00
travel journal, travel, scrap album, transportation, printing, stationary
1930-1940s. A unique scrap travel book compiled by an unknown person with each page filled will snippets from letterheads from hotels presumably visited by the journaler. These pieces of the letterhead have been cut out and pasted into the album and there is a range of a singe (larger) piece.....
Price: $225.00