Everything Else (general ephemera)
Music Prodigies, Women's Work, Performing Arts, Vocal Arts and Elocution
New York, New York: Fannie Naegeli, 1890. Booklet advertising performances of American child prodigy Fannie Naegeli: "Little Fannie Naegeli, The Wonderful Child Pianist, Organist, Vocalist and Elocutionist, will play, sing and recite for entertainments, &c., and give instruction in music" (p. [3]). Performing in a variety of venues, Naegeli performed.....
Price: $225.00
Nature, Lepidopterology, Entomology, Butterflies, Taxonomy and Classification, Collecting, Plastics, Specimen preservation
Wellesley, Massachusetts: Denton Bros. 1902. A fascinating look into the collection of an amateur lepidopterologist. Here, a copy of The Butterfly Hunter's Guide (9.5" by 7", [20] pp., original printed wrappers) is accompanied by two (2) contemporary German advertising circulars (11.5" by 8.75") for mail-order butterfly specimens, as well as.....
Price: $1,400.00
Infectious Disease, Communicable Disease, Diphtheria, Public Health
[1910s]. A 4pp circular on diphtheria pre-vaccination. It provides a general explanation of the communication of the disease and how to prevent and control spread of the disease. The second paragraph reads "S generally is diphtheria regarded as due to unsanitary conditions, that by common consent it is classed among.....
Price: $125.00
Pro-Labor, Unions, Union Organizers
1970-1980s. A grouping of eleven (11) promotional items , mostly bumper stickers and details promoting unions and organizing unions. It includes Bumper Stickers Live Better Work Union - UFCW Go Steelworks (small and large sizes) Stop Apartheid - Boycott Shell - UAW-CAP Support Public Education - American Federation of Teachers.....
Price: $400.00
Horology, Science and Technology, Movable & Mechanical
New York: J. W. Delamere & Do. 1865. A 3 3/4" x 2 5/8" card with a ring on a string that is to be repositioned across a line of months. The card is to be positions so the A flap faces the sun to create a shadow line. If.....
Price: $400.00
bookseller label, bookseller tag, bookshop, library, female society, printing
[1825-1920]. A collection of twenty-two (22) bookseller labels (also called Bookseller Tags) from the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the more unique and largest labels in the collection is from the Female Benevolent and Library Society. This was a small library founded in 1825 by the female members of.....
Price: $425.00
religion, missionary, social & cultural, periodicals
New Haven, CT: Religious Intelligencer, October 4-18, 1823. A handbound grouping of three issues of the Religious Intelligencer, an Evangelistic serial publication which ran between 1816 and 1835. Includes Vol. VIII, No. 18-20, which were published in October 1823. The majority of the publication has variety of letters and reports.....
Price: $175.00
Made by Hand, Calendar
A 4" x 6 1/2" thirteen (13) leaf calendar including the cover. The cover drawing depicts three (3) bells swinging to and fro. It is captioned "1897 Ring in a Happy New Year. Each page is a complete month calendar with seasonally relevant illustrations. January is a rabbit running through.....
Price: $85.00
Beauty, Anti-Aging, Hollywood
Trenton, New Jersey: Wings Products Co., 1940s. "Lines Vanish" and "Youth Returns" with Hollywood Wings, a box of "medicated frown and wrinkle eradicators" that describe themselves as "the secret of Hollywood beauty". The twenty (20) unused adhesive wings are housed in the original illustrated box (approx. 2.5" by 1.25" by.....
Price: $150.00
Construction, Measurement and Conversion Charts, Moveables and Volvelles
Allentown, Pennsylvania: Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 1920. A handy celluloid volvelle lumber scale with twelve (12) points of information, produced in 1920 by Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Allows the user to determine quantity of materials needed to make one yard of rammed concrete on the recto, and specific lumber measurements.....
Price: $70.00
Psychology, Psychological Experiments, Psychology and Pedagogy
New York and Chicago: Henry Holt and Company, c.1908. Housed in the original printed envelope, this item is comprised of thirty-nine (39) individual slips of colored paper produced to be used in conjunction with Carl E. and Robert Holmes Seashore's "Elementary Experiments in Psychology" (Henry Holt, 1908). The book contains.....
Price: $150.00
Politics, Promotion and Advertising, Michigan, Democratic Party
July 15-18th,1940. A 7 1/2" x 3 3/4' four blade fold out hand fan with grommet at base give away at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The cover is printed in blue and gold and boasts Michigan's 38 delegates, followed by a blade promoting the state highway commissioner.....
Price: $95.00
Souvenirs, Charles Kean, Shakespeare, Performing Arts
London, England: Joseph, Myers & Co., [1857]. A remarkable survival: one of the souvenir roses, in original illustrated envelope, from Charles Kean's 1857 production of Richard II at the Royal Princess's Theatre in London. Offered together with accompanying bifolium program, which describes the impetus for the souvenir rose: "By the.....
Price: $725.00
shipping, boats, classifications, shipbuilding, ship registers
New York: American Shipmasters' Association, 1877. 48 pp. Textured paper wrappers. Gilt stamp. This book details the instructions for how to survey and classify a ship according to the rules provided by the American Shipmasters' Association. The book starts with a list of resolutions and recommendations of the NY Board.....
Price: $225.00
Social Welfare, Temperance, Propaganda, Calendar
Chicago ILL: Messenger Publishing Co., 1917. A seven page calendar, printed on both sides. A 15 3/4" x 7" calendar with medal top binding and braided string hanger printed on polished stock. The front cover depicts a color illustration of a mother peeking through currents at her toddler son playing.....
Price: $250.00
Social History, New York Gilded Age
New York, NY: 1874. An archive of approximately 400 billheads relating to the running of the M. Hopper Mott (1815-1864) manse for predominantly for 1874 with various others. Mott married Ruth A. Schuyler who remained in residence until she remarried in the 1890s. The archive has been organized into eight.....
Price: $1,450.00
Women's History, Victoriana, Social History
c1870. A 5 1/2" x 2" brass clip of sorts with a lock in the shape of a decorative heart . A brass circle at top to attach to a chain on a chatelaine. Used by Victorian women predominantly from the 1840s-1880s. Most often hung from a chatelaine for easy.....
Price: $225.00
pickup straws, game, children game, caving, spellicans, spilikins, pick up sticks
1929. A handmade game of Jack Straw, though more commonly known as pick up sticks or pick up straws. The game can also be referred to as spellicans or spilikins. This handcarved wooden set was made by Alba W. Currier in December of 1927, the game consists of one hook.....
Price: $225.00
Arion Society, German-American, Beringer Wine, Botanical Specimens
United States: 1868-1882. Eight (8) leaves from the travel and botanical specimen album of German immigrant Frederick Beringer who, along with his brother Jacob, founded the Beringer Wine dynasty in the Napa Valley in 1875. The pages of this album date between 1868 and 1882, and contain a multiplicity of.....
Price: $600.00
SLAM, G. Prilleau, Paris, Charles Bosse,
An 8 1/2" x 11" engraving illustrated by G. Prilleau depicting street scenes and the store front with a gentleman entering Charles Bosse book shop. An active Parisian book seller at the turn of the 20th century. One of the founding members of Syndicat Français de la Librairie Ancienne et.....
Price: $250.00
Education, Whitestone Seminary, Periodical
Whitestone Seminary, NY: Whitestown Seminary, 1876. An 8 pp newspaper style periodical, that appears to have been published annually. It begins with a list of the Literary Organizations including Y.G. Fraternity, Union Literary Society, Irving Brothers, Bronte Daughters, E. T. Society, Student Christian Association and the graduating class of 1876.....
Price: $175.00
John W. Wanamaker, religion, education
Philadelphia, PA: Bethany's Presbyterian Church, October 23, 1874. A stock share certificate for the fundraising campaign for the enlargement of "Bethany Building" where the Bethany School and church were located. A part of this campaign was that with the payment of one dollar, an individual was given a share in.....
Price: $85.00
Morocco, Gold Tooling, Ladies' Fashion
Heidelberg, Germany: 1853. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example with cream silk and crushed red silk interior. Measures 9.5" by 6.25" by 2"; ticket of Joseph Sommer to interior.
Price: $550.00
Civil War, Optical Illusions, Riddles
United States: c1860s. A curious optical illusion puzzle in two parts: on the recto, a warped image; on the verso, a tongue-in-cheek riddle in verse. To solve, the viewer must either glean the answer from the riddle's clues or view the image from a specific angle to reveal the image.....
Price: $125.00