Correspondence
Columbia University,History of Library Science,Melvil Dewey,Postal Card
New York, New York: Columbia College Libraries, 1883. A postal card for "Columbia College Libraries", produced in the 1880s during the tenure of Chief Librarian Melvil Dewey (of "Dewey Decimal" fame). Dated Sept. 24, 1883, the handwritten note on the verso requests mail for Dewey to be forwarded. The addressee.....
Price: $100.00
Letterhead,Job Printing,Publishers and Printers
Norfolk, Virginia: Pollock & Barcroft, 1885. An 1885 handwritten letter on letterhead advertising the publishers, job printers, and binders Pollock & Barcroft of Norfolk, Virginia. The letter itself is dated December 15, 1885 and addressed to Col. William D. Coleman of Danville, Virginia. The subject of the letter is regarding.....
Price: $100.00
History of Black Americans in Higher Education,Howard University, University of Chicago,Black Veterans of the First World War
Washington, D.C: 1914. A postal card postmarked April 18th, 1914 in Washington, D.C., sent from Uzziah Miner, an under-studied Black activist and veteran of WWI. At the time of this postal card, he was a Howard University Student seeking information about admissions to the University of Chicago. The message and.....
Price: $150.00
WWI,American Nurses Abroad,Le Bien-Être du Blessé,Franco-American Volunteer Nurse Organizations
France: 1919. A group of four (4) letters from the Franco-American organization Le Bien-Être du Blessé addressed to Ann Cléophas Mullarkey, an American nurse who served in France during the war and assisted the organization in the war's immediate aftermath. From the letters we glean that Mullarkey was awarded a......
Price: $175.00
Hardware,Mouse Traps
Abingdon, Illinois: Abingdon Trap Company, 1900. Illustrated circular and sales letter on company billhead advertising mouse traps sold by the Abingdon Trap Co. Specifically promotes the "Diamond Joe Mouse and Rat Traps" line of products. Includes a photo of the traps in the box, as well as before and after.....
Price: $150.00
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
Cotton Industry
Howard County, Maryland: Alberton Cotton Factory, 1871. Illustrated letterhead for the Alberton Cotton Factory, featuring at lively image of the factory with people, a horse and buggy, nearby domiciles, and a steaming locomotive going by. Below is a letter handwritten ink by the Treasurer of the company to Mr. William.....
Price: $175.00
Satan, Devil Iconography, Thermos
Norwich, Connecticut: American Thermos Company, 1915. Illustrated letterhead for the American Thermos Company, featuring a rather fabulous 1908 illustration of the devil and what appears to be an anthropomorphized snowman holding thermoses with the caption "It is never too hot or too cold for the man with a thermos bottle".....
Price: $200.00
History of Georgia,Education,Berry College
Rome, Georgia: 1925-1938. A small archive of manuscript and printed materials relating to Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Ranging in date from 1925 to 1938, the materials were collected by the school's then-president and chart his professional and personal activities during this time. There is correspondence and poetry; most is.....
Price: $450.00
Novelty, Wheel, Correspondence
Cincinnati OH: The Boob Wheel Co., 1909. A 9 1/4" in diameter letterhead printed on paper die-cut in the shape of a circle, with wheel and spoke border design. The company sold wheels, poles and shafts, so the wheel shaped letterhead was a natural promotion for product awareness. Reverse is.....
Price: $50.00
Cameo Cover,Advertising Cover,Tobacco,Postal History,Material History,Depictions of Native American Women in Advertising
New York, New York: W. Eaves, c.1871. A handsome 1870s cameo cover advertising Sherwood, Hemmens & Co., of Utica, New York, "Manufacturers & Dealers in All Kinds of Domestic & Foreign Cigars, Tobacco, Snuffs &c." Cameo covers were popular ways for businesses to promote themselves in the 1870s and 1880s.....
Price: $200.00
correspondence, drawings
1921. A plyaful yet instructive letter from a father to a daughter who presumably is away with her mother. Perhaps she is recovering from an injury. It begins with the father acknowledging how his daughter’s improved use of her hands and encouraging her to continue. It proceeds to discuss a......
Price: $85.00
Methodist, Australia, nursing, gender roles, England
Washington, DC: 1900- 1913. A collection of 14 letters, written to Eliza Grace Jeffries (1840-1917). While originally born in England, Eliza and her younger brother, Rev Peter Jeffries immigrated to America in 1899. Peter served as pastor to several congregations of the next sixteen years in the Virginia, Baltimore and.....
Price: $350.00
correspondence, teacher, education, courtship, cut outs, programs, invite, invites, invitation, grammar school, public school
Belmont, NY: 1897 - 1911. Blanche Annis Leavitt (1881 - ?) was a teacher at Belmont Grammar School in in the early 1900s. The collection includes various correspondence and ephemera associated with her time at Belmont Grammar School, from her students to her co-workers, to her family. The bulk of.....
Price: $115.00
Micro calligraphy,Southern Bivouac,Transcription,Miniature and Artistic Penmanship
Louisville, Kentucky: 1886. A lovely example of "Microcalligraphy", done on a postal card postmarked September 1886 and addressed in ink to "Miss Rinnie[?] H. Seavits[?]" of North Parsonfield, Maine. The title of the transcribed work is "Custer at the Surrender". A note at the bottom reads, "There are now 1,708.....
Price: $950.00
Illustrated Letterhead,Newspaper Publishing
Morristown, New Jersey: Vogt Bros., True Democratic Banner, 1891. An early 1890s letter handwritten on illustrated letterhead produced for the Vogt Brothers, editors and owners of the True Democratic Banner, a New Jersey newspaper. Dated Sept. 28, 1891, the letter offers information to a Mr. Drake Esq. about product pricing.....
Price: $125.00
Letter Writers,Modern Reprints
N.pl: N.p, 1920s. An early 20th-century reprint of an 1840s letter writer originally published by A.J. Wright in Boston. Includes exemplar letters applicable to a wide variety of situations, mostly to do with matters of the heart. Includes a longer sections in the back with advice for "popping the question".....
Price: $100.00
IBM, History of Computing
New York, New York: International Business Machines Corporation, 1939-1940. Two (2) early IBM memoranda, dated 1939 and 1940, on company letterhead specific to the Electric Accounting Machine Division. The first, "Commercial Research Bulletin # 32-A", consists of 9 leaves of typewritten instructions for how to operate the Alphabetic Accounting Machine.....
Price: $375.00
Sales and Marketing, History of American Business, Art Deco
Racine, Wisconsin: S.C. Johnson & Son, 1916. Typewritten letter on S.C. Johnson & Son illustrated company letterhead urging a Michigan hardware store to follow up on a potential order of Johnson's Artistic Wood Finishes. Signed in black ink by S. Collier. Measures 11" by 8.5"; verso blank. The illustrated letterhead.....
Price: $50.00
Lady Liberty, Telephone, Communications History and Technology
New York, New York: The Lambert Schmidt Telephone Mfg. Co., 1900. An artifact of early telephone history: a letter from an agent for Commercial Construction Co. to a client, enclosing ephemera with pricing for telephones. The ephemera consists of: one copy of a typewritten letter quoting prices for telephones produced.....
Price: $350.00
Judaica,WWII,History of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, New York: 1933-1942. A small collection of ephemera offering a window into the activities and life of the Jewish community of New Rochelle, New York and surrounding areas, between 1933 and 1942. All belonging to a Mr. "J. Span" of New Rochelle, an evidently active and generous member.....
Price: $425.00
Temperance,Alcoholism
Willimantic, Connecticut: D.G. Lawson, 1877. Ephemera promoting Scottish Elocutionist and lecturer D.G. Lawson, with original handwritten note from Lawson himself promoting his lectures. Lawson voluntarily checked himself into the Connecticut State Insane Asylum in the 1870s "as a last hope to overcome an uncontrollable appetite for Rum", and made his.....
Price: $175.00
Forbes Lithograph Man'f'g. Co.,Letterhead
Boston, Massachusetts: Forbes Lithograph Man'f'g. Co., 1883. A letter on company letterhead for the Forbes Lithograph Man'f'g. Co., written in ink and dated Aug. 27, 1883. Addressed to Farr Alpaca Co. of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the letter acknowledges receipt of a wire, and responds: "Will ship some German Honeycomb tags tomorrow".....
Price: $125.00
The School for Christian Workers,Religious Professions,History of Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts: The School for Christian Workers, c.1888-1891. Four (4) items related to The School for Christian Workers, a Springfield, Massachusetts school for preparing young men for professions as lay assistants, secretaries to pastors, Sunday school administrators, and Bible colporteurs. The school was founded in 1885 by the Rev. David.....
Price: $150.00