Industrial, Building & Trades
Shawl Pins, Sail Needles, Victorian Fashion and Clothing, Made in...
New York, New York: American & Howe Pin Cos. 1882. A collection of one hundred nineteen (119) Victorian shawl pins...
Price: $150.00
Industry, Business, Industrial Exposition
A 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" show card for the exposition featuring the exterior of the building with vignettes of...
Price: $65.00
Typography, Broadsides, Land Development
Charleston, South Carolina: Consumers Coal Company, 1890s. Printed broadside advertising large swaths of farm land for sale in South Carolina...
Price: $150.00
Cotton Industry
Howard County, Maryland: Alberton Cotton Factory, 1871. Illustrated letterhead for the Alberton Cotton Factory, featuring at lively image of the...
Price: $175.00
Letterhead, Consumer Advise
Saginaw, MI: Allington & Curtis Mfg. 1900. An 11" by 8.5" letterhead with engraving of exterior of the building with...
Price: $75.00
Lighting, antique, trade catalog
Manufacturer: I. Sack Cabinet Hardware Co. Location: Boston, MA Date: c1920 Pages: Two sections of 61, numbered, printed single sided...
Price: $95.00
Early Fire Safety and Prevention
Tilton, New Hampshire: Automatic Fire Escape Company, c.1915. Advertising booklet for an "Automatic Fire Escape" marketed to American families and...
Price: $225.00
ballet, russian ballet, dance, ballet impresario, program, dance
Schenectady, NY: 21-Nov-34. 56 pp (including covers) ballet program with an illustrated cover by Georges A. de Pogedareff (transcribed from...
Price: $65.00
California,Trade in San Francisco,Panama Canal
San Francisco, California: Dempster Bros., Printers, 1880. A primary account of discussions surrounding the push to build a canal connecting...
Price: $175.00
Cotton Gin,Textile Industry,Cotton
East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Carver Cotton Gin Co., 1880s. Illustrated advertising circular, featuring some particularly lovely typographic design, for the Carver...
Price: $100.00
Menu, Travel & Tourism, Advertising, Transportation
Rand McNally & Co., 1886. Single-fold 6 1/8" x 4 1/4" menu with a color illustrated cover depicting scenes from...
Price: $125.00
Forges and Tools,American Manufacturing,Material History and Culture
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Scale Co., c.1875. Illustrated bifolium (11.75" by 9"), advertising "Portable forges, blowers and tools" by the Chicago...
Price: $175.00
Bells,Material Culture,Metal
East Medway, Massachusetts: George H. Holbrook, 1880s. Advertising circular for cast metal bells for churches, factories, and steamboats. manufactured by...
Price: $150.00
Job Printing,Tobacco,Manufacturing and Production,Labor Saving
Petersburg, Virginia: G.F. Marks, 1868. Printed circular addressed "to manufacturers of tobacco", advertising new patented machinery used for pressing tobacco...
Price: $400.00
Engineering,Steam Engines,Technological Innovation
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Lane & Bodley Co., 1895. A booklet promoting a new 1895 iteration of the Corliss Engine, a....
Price: $225.00
legal, household & furnishing, industrial, building & trade
Haverhill, MA: April 1, 1845. A legal agreement between three men, Edward J. Smith, James Woodman and Edwin Morse for...
Price: $150.00
Pasta, Recipes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lagomarsino & Cuneo, c.1874. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (6" by 3.75") with six different recipes for macaroni and vermicelli...
Price: $85.00
Engineering,Steam Engines,Technological Innovation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Engineering Works, Limited, c.1890. Three (3) items advertising the Corliss Engine, an improved steam engine debuted at...
Price: $175.00
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Nautical and Maritime,Shipbuilding
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1870. Printed promotion for a new patented "Metallic Trestletree" made of steel for the use in vessels, replacing...
Price: $125.00
Counter Card,Sewing Machines and Women's Work
Orange, Massachusetts: New Home Sewing Machine Co., 1880s. Chromolithographed and die-cut counter card advertising the New Home Sewing Machine Co....
Price: $175.00
Railroad and Transportation,Steam Power
Springfield, Massachusetts: Connecticut River Railroad Company, 1867. Illustrated 1867 circular with handwritten letter pitching a patented self-adjusting piston for steam...
Price: $225.00
Telephone,Modern Invention and Innovation,Trade Cards
Muncie, Indiana: J.M. Fudge, c.1905. An early telephone trade card promoting the "Muncie Vibrating Telephone" sold by J.M. Fudge of...
Price: $125.00
Excavation Machinery,Steam Power
New York, New York: Randolph Bros. c.1877. Advertising circular for novel earth excavation machinery, including a full-page illustration of a....
Price: $325.00
WWII Propaganda,Waste on the Home Front,Rubber Gas and Steel Rationing
New York, New York: The National Board of Fire Underwriters. A printed leaflet persuading American families on the home front...
Price: $225.00