Advertising to Children
Advertising to Children, Women's History, Paper Dolls, Sewing Notions
NY: Sackette & Wilhelms Litho Co., c1895. Three (3) different die-cut advertising head and shoulders paper dolls compliments of S.H. & M. Skirt binding tape. Each depicts an elegant lady of means, dressed for various social events. Perhaps designed as an aspiration the for average child. The reverse of the.....
Price: $120.00
Children's Health,Marketing Insurance to Families
St. Louis, Missouri: Reliable Life and Accident Insurance Company, 1920s. A rhyming ABC book for children, teaching them about health and safety (e.g. the importance of fresh air, not spreading germs). Markets the Reliable Life and Accident Insurance Company to families. Some of the rhymes include: "D is for Danger.....
Price: $125.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera, Advertising to Children
Boston: Brown Taggard & Chase. A 6" x 4 1/2" single-sided advertisement captioned "hurrah for the Little Folks!" Chandler's Paper Dolls, of the Latest Paris Fashions. The is followed by the list of seven paper dolls produced in 1857. Published by Brown, Taggard & Chase, Nos. 25 & 29 Cornhill.....
Price: $150.00
Summer Camps, International Friendship
Risör, Norway: Camp Viking, 1920s. Advertising pamphlet for Camp Viking, a "Norwegian Camp run on American plan" created "to promote international friendship between girls". Includes two illustrations: one of Viking ship on cover, and one of the main camp building inside. Designed for girls ten years of age or older.....
Price: $150.00
Advertising to Children, Paper Dolls, S&C
Germany. Printed in Austria: S & C, [1930]. A four-page folded booklet with die-cut heart on the cover exposition one of the paper dolls. It promotes Sorosis Shoes Hunters, most likely a shoe emporium. When opened it reveals three (3) die-cut 4 3/4" paper dolls, each with 3 costumes and.....
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
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
Consumerism, Play, Advertising to Children
Chicago, Illinois: Armour and Company, 1930s. A paper play cottage (11" by 14" folded) produced by Armour and Company for children, with the original printed mailing envelope (11" by 14") and a small printed flyer advertising Armour's Star Ham (3.5" by 8.5").
Price: $275.00
Color Theory, Composition, Art for Children
Battle Creek, Michigan, and Boston, Massachusetts: General Foods and Artbilt Publishers, 1933. An uncut paper play set poster (30" by 20.75", color-printed, recto only) produced by General Foods that helps young children "Learn, through play, the actual principles of art-- composition, perspective and color-harmony! No artistic ability is required to.....
Price: $325.00
Transformation,Parisian Department Stores
Paris: 1890s. A charming children's transformation advertising Au Bon Marché/Maison A. Boucicaut, a Parisian department store. Front depicts a little girl in a yellow dress selling costume masks, back has a view of the Rue du Bac in Paris. There are two dolls (a boy on the verso of the.....
Price: $125.00
trade card, changing picture, movable, french, advertising
Paris: c1900. A chromolithography trade card from the famous French department and Curiosity Store, named Au Bon Marche. The front has a gold and floral frame with shutters that when moved, alter the image of a servant girl into that of a Queen. The back of the card features an.....
Price: $110.00
1893 Columbian Exhibition,Depictions of Christopher Columbus,ABC Books,Advertising Family Medicines
United States: [1893]. A color-illustrated ABC book for little readers, advertising family medicines and household remedies. The two main products advertised as Brandreth's Pills and Allcock's Porous Plasters. Each letter of the alphabet has a different color illustration of a significant moment in American history, highlight the Columbus expedition. Some.....
Price: $200.00
Boys Will Be Boys
Waterbury, Connecticut: Waterbury Watch Co., 1885. An 1885 promotional booklet for Waterbury brand watches, offering entertaining content for boys. Includes fun facts (the record for oyster shucking is 100 in 3 min, 5 sec, in 1884, p. [3]), hints for organizing a camping trip with friends, famous world records, amusing.....
Price: $115.00
Advertising to Children, Children Shoes, Paper Plaything, Pretend Play
Chicago: C.M. Henderson & Co., 1890s. The Little Red School House was a trademark of the C. M. Henderson & Co., and an image of it was stamped on the bottom of one of each pair of shoes it sold. In order to promote the company's 'Red School House Shoes'.....
Price: $85.00
Cadbury Chocolate, Advertising to Children, Games
Cadbury Bros. Ltd., C. 1934. This board game was a promotional gimmick by Cadbury to help sell their drinking chocolate just as Britain was coming out of an economic depression. The game pieces were called Cococubs, which were hollowcast hand-painted lead figures of various anthropomorphic creatures including Whiskers Rabbit, Peter.....
Price: $85.00
certificate, political & social, advertising to children, fraud, William Randolph Hearst, Presidential Campaign,
San Francisco, Ca: 27-May-03. A certificate for the School Children's Landmark League of California, which was a society started in 1903 to raise funds for the "purchase and restoration of the historic landmarks of the State of California". The League was granted permission by the San Francisco's Board of Education.....
Price: $125.00
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
Advertising to Children, Larkin Products, Paper Dolls
A 6" x 2 1/4" heavy stock paper doll named Alice. The caption at top reads "Call mother's attention to the fact that the clothes which the Thrifty family wear are exact copies of real clothing, given as Premiums in the Larkin Spring and Summer Catalog. The two costume sheets.....
Price: $100.00
activity book, women poets, Christmas, Santa Claus, advertising
Philadelphia: ca 1952. A vibrantly colored unpaginated children's Christmas activity book compliments of N. Snellenburg & Co. and Santa Claus...Printed on pulp or short fiber paper. Six (6) color pages, remainder black and white line drawings. Begins with verse A Visit to Toyland by Maud Wood Henry, followed by story.....
Price: $45.00
activity book, women poets, christmas, santa claus, advertising
ca 1952. Philadelphia, ca 1952 Cardboard Covers Text block separated from cover Half separation at top fold on cover A vibrantly colored unpaginated chidren's Christmas activity book complients of N Snellenburg & Co and Santa ClausPrinted on pulp or short fiber paper Six (6) color pages, remainder black and white.....
Price: $45.00
Patent Medicines, Circus, Spectacle, Word Puzzles
Lowell, Massachusetts: C.I. Hood & Co., c.1900. An exceedingly scarce illustrated advertising booklet for Hood's Sarsparilla, including a charming short story that captures all the excitement and spectacle of going to the circus. "A Clown's Romance" is printed on the versos, and descriptions of Hood's medicines and ailments treated are.....
Price: $95.00
The Youth's Companion, periodicals, juvenile books
A collection of 18 different advertising trade cards for The Youth's Companion, We Keep "Wide Awake", Eclectic Penmanship, Harper's Young People plus books by Historical Publishing Co., Estes & Lauriat, Lee and Shepard and Sunshine Publishing Co. The final card is for the Patent Adjustable Book-Cover. The focus of the.....
Price: $425.00
advertising to children, paper dolls, fashion, sewing, sewing patterns, gender roles
United States: 1917-1996. In the 1880s companies saw a way of reaching a wider audience by creating advertising material that was directed towards a young audience. The hope was that children might help to direct their parent's spending habits. By the early 1900s, advertisers had perfected this technique and had.....
Price: $1,000.00
ABAA-HOLIDAY-2024,Pens and Writing, Correspondence, Gibson Girl, Royal Family, Abraham Lincoln, Edwardian
England and United States: c.1910. A fine collection of one hundred sixty one (161) items relating to the sale of pen nibs in Edwardian England and America, comprised of: one hundred fifty (150) chromolithographed labels for pen boxes of those 45 are unique; one (1) illustrated advertising cover; two (2).....
Price: $2,800.00