Social Movements
Advertising Contraceptives and Family Planning Products,1960s Sexual Revolution
Chicago, Illinois: Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., 1965. A brightly illustrated advertising leaflet for products by Federal Pharmacal Supply, Inc., with a focus on contraceptives. Includes several brands of prophylactics/condoms and a brand of numbing lubricant for men. Note the "Federal Fun Specials" on the back, which include novelty gifts such.....
Price: $325.00
Americana, Evangelism, Lectures
[Brooklyn, New York]: J.C.. Stevens, 1917. Advertising card for a free lecture by evangelist J.C.. Stevens given in Brooklyn on August 5th, 1917, "At the Tent". J.C.. Stevens evangelized in the late 1910s, offering free public lectures with titles such as "Is the Great War the Last the World Will.....
Price: $150.00
Unions,Workforce,Leaflets,Messaging and Propaganda,Bilingual Messaging
Chicago, Illinois: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, c.1965. Salesman's sample book of forty (40) illustrated leaflets produced by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (AMC). An important c.1960 relic of craft unionism, the sample book was produced for the AMC's members to.....
Price: $2,400.00
circular, invite, religion, education, Bible
New York, NY: June 12, 1858. A small circular addressed to the citizens of the seventeenth ward of New York City regardless of their "creed or party". It invited them to a public meeting held at the Norfolk Street Methodist Episcopal Church on Monday, June 12, 1858 at 8 PM.....
Price: $100.00
Women and Labor,Women's Clubs and Organizations
United States: National League of Woman Workers, 1904. Scarce issue of "The Club Worker", a serial published by the National League of Woman Workers, an association founded in the late 1890s "in the interest of women workers and the clubs which they have formed ... [and to] stand as a......
Price: $175.00
Korean War, Propaganda, Visual Warfare, U.S. Psychological Warfare Division
Korea: 1952-1953. A collection of Korean War propaganda, showcasing the intensity and vitriol employed by both sides through visual warfare. In total, there are twenty-eight (28) items representing four (4) languages: Korean, Chinese, Russian, and English. Several of the items were produced by American forces with the intention of convincing.....
Price: $3,200.00
Social Justice, Activism, Theater, College Organizations, New Haven May Day 1970, Black Panthers
New Haven, Connecticut: 1971-1975. A fine collection of ninety-three (93) posters, many related to social justice initiatives spearheaded by students at Yale, spanning the years 1971 and 1975. There are seven (7) categories of posters in this collection including: concerts; film screenings; lectures; meetings; plays and performances; protests; and religious.....
Price: $5,500.00
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
Animal Welfare and Rights, Humane Societies, Prevention of Cruelty, Child Protection
Hartford, Connecticut: 1920. An early photographically illustrated leaflet for the Connecticut Humane Society, incorporated in 1881 "To Promote Humanity and Kindness" (first leaf recto). Includes a heart-wrenching story about a neglected horse, as well as a heart-warming story about a pony who found a forever family. Contrary to the Society's.....
Price: $175.00
Women's Suffrage in California
1911. An anti-Women's suffrage speech asking readers to vote "No" on California's Equal Suffrage Amendment. It was narrowly approved after an earlier 1896 attempt had failed. Emphasizes the importance of keeping the "woman's sphere" separate, the need to keep domestic life "pure", and refers to the Suffragette as a "mannish.....
Price: $250.00
Drunk Driving, Voting Issues, Local Elections, Alcohol and Temperance
Waterville, Maine: F.W. Smith, c.1938. "VOTE THE DRINKING DRIVER DOWN--Vote 'NO' on liquor in September" is the message to Maine voters in this confrontational poster. The cartoon graphic shows a disheveled man hurtling down the road towards the viewer, tossing a liquor bottle behind him, with a license plate that.....
Price: $225.00
Trade Cards, Ephemera, Principles of Christian Church, Proselytizing
Greensboro Christian Church, c.1900. Promoting the Greensboro Christian Church: a printed card (5" by 3") with photographic illustration of the Rev. L.I. Cox on recto, and list of "The Five Cardinal Principles of the Christian Church" on verso. Cox was pastor at Elon College, and stalwart of the community during.....
Price: $100.00
People's Party, Populist Party, Women and Politics, Women's Rights, White Slavery, American History
San Francisco, California: Cubery & Co., Printers, 1894. Printed notice promoting meetings of the People's Party with lectures by Carrie Filkins Young on the following subjects: "Political Issues: of Vital Interest to Women"; "The Black Page of American History"; or "White Slavery: How [it became] Fastened Upon the American People".....
Price: $150.00
Red Scare, Anti-Communist Sentiment, Anti-Soviet Sentiment, American Legion, Capitalism, Democracy
United States: [The American Legion?], c.1925. The present booklet was published for the general public, most likely by the American Legion, in a bid to establish communism as an insidious threat to the American way of life and democracy. Includes a foreword by Garland W. Powell, National Director of the.....
Price: $275.00
Agnosticism,Philosophy,Radical Freethought
New York, New York: 1922. Vol. 49, No. 31 of "The Truth Seeker", a "Freethought and Agnostic Newspaper" that provided a space for radical and progressive thinkers to discuss social, religious, and moral issues without interference from the Church and other conservative institutions. This issue features a particularly lovely allegorical.....
Price: $150.00
Vietnam War,Anti-Draft/Conscription,Statement Pins and Buttons,Feminism,Human Rights,Social Justice and Causes,Anti-War Protest
New York, New York: Women Against Daddy Warbucks, 1970. On July 2nd, 1970, five members of the all-female coalition "Women Against Daddy Warbucks" broke into the midtown Manhattan office that held important 1-A draft files, denoting men who would soon be drafted into the Vietnam War. They destroyed these documents.....
Price: $425.00
Women's Work,Labor and Unions
London, England: Trades Union Congress, 1965. An extensive and valuable printed report for 1964-1965 of the Trades Union Congress Women's Advisory Committee, given at the 35th annual conference of Unions Catering for Women Workers in Great Yarmouth, 1965. Offers valuable statistics and demographics related to women's work in England during.....
Price: $225.00
Women's Suffrage, Postcards, Political Cartoons
New York, New York: Roth & Langley, 1911. An amusing political cartoon postcard depicting a woman squeezed into a single pant leg humorously captioned, "A Present from Brother!". Lithographed postcard (5.5" by 3.5"). Addressed and sent, postmarked 1919, with message in contemporary ink.
Price: $105.00
political, elections, classes & movements
[Maywood, IL]: [1894]. A brochure printed by the Proportional Representation League, whose goal was to promote proportional representation within American. The brochure starts off with providing information on the last two congressional elections of 1892 and 1894, and states that, due to their outcome, "the official vote in two national.....
Price: $125.00
Feminism,Feminist Writers and Thinkers,Women of Communism
New York, New York: International Publishers, 1948. First edition of an important feminist manifesto. Published in between First and Second Wave Feminism, "Woman against Myth" by Betty Millard is a seminal essay evaluating the current state of feminism in 1948. Born Elizabeth Boynton Millard (1911-2010) , Betty Millard was a......
Price: $500.00
Communism, Anti-communism, politics, international relations, China, Red Scare
San Francisco, California: David Warren Ryder, 1938-1939. The August 1938 (Vol. I, No. 6) and January 1939 (Vol. I, No. 11) issues of the short-lived anti-Communist periodical Far Eastern Affairs Pamphlets, edited and published by David Warren Ryder at the very beginning of the second Red Scare. Ryder (1892-1975) was.....
Price: $100.00
Temperance,Serials,History of Alcohol and Society
Albany, New York: Temperance Recorder, October 1837-July 1842. A partial run of the Temperance Recorder, including the following twelve (12) issues: Vol. VI, No. 8; Vol. X, Nos. 6-9, 11-12; and Vol. XI, Nos. 1-5. The Temperance Recorder was founded in the early 1830s by the New York State Temperance.....
Price: $325.00
FCC,Communications,Radio,Public Domain,Broadcast Monopolies
New York, New York: Peoples Radio Foundation, 1948. A monograph on the state of radio communications in America by Eugene Konecky (1898-1978), an activist and writer who dedicated his career to toppling broadcast monopolies. With chapter titles such as "Swastika Stations" and "Democracy or Dollar Dials", the book aims to.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Birth Control,Sex in the 19th Century,Oneida Community,
Oneida, New York: Office of the American Socialist, 1877. Second edition of a booklet on male sexual continence (i.e. coitus reservatus) by the founder of the Oneida Community, John Humphrey Noyes. Male continence was encouraged among the community's members as both a means of birth control and a means of.....
Price: $225.00