Industrial, Building & Trades
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 the interior. Reverse is blank. The Institute's building on Huntington Avenue is shown in this advertisement for the 1883 American Exposition.
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 by Consumers Coal Company, with a quirky typographical inclusion: the word "coal" has been designed out of small coal-like black shapes. Prices for parcels ranged from $2 to $25 per.....
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 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
Letterhead, Consumer Advise
Saginaw, MI: Allington & Curtis Mfg. 1900. An 11" by 8.5" letterhead with engraving of exterior of the building with cutaway within the image allowing the view of interior workings of the factory. Content is in response to a customers inquiry re installing a dust collector. . Reverse is blank.....
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 pages, one section is the illustrations and descriptions of items, the second is the corresponding price list. Subject Matter: Lighting The catalog is a folder with brad clips. It is.....
Price: $95.00
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 indistinct signature). Russian ballet impresario Wassily de Basil, usually referred to as Colonel W. De Basil, founded the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo with artistic director Rene Blum in 1932. The.....
Price: $65.00
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 the construction of a two family house on Main Street in Haverhill. While no state is ever mentioned in the contract, it can be supposed that it is Haverhill, MA.....
Price: $150.00
War Propaganda, World War Two, Rationing
Washington, D.C. Office of Price Administration, 1942. Illustrated informational leaflet informing the public about tire and rubber rationing during World War Two, issued by the U.S. Government. Highly propagandistic, it aims to garner public support for rationing, and includes: directions for how to qualify for gasoline and tires, and passing.....
Price: $175.00
Farming, Chromolithography, Volvelle
Galva, Illinois: c.1900. Chromolithographed volvelle advertising farming equipment manufactured by Hayes Pump & Planter Co. Comprised of two cards, the top card features an image of a father and daughter looking out onto serene farmland. Through a small die-cut window, the bottom card can be viewed, with each turn of.....
Price: $125.00
Engineering and Design, Steam Engines, Elevators
New York, New York: Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery, 1870s. Bifolium (10.25" by 8") with illustrated advertisement for Leonard Atwood, Builder of High & Low Pressure Steam Engines and Safety Hoisting Machinery on first leaf, company letterhead on second leaf with.....
Price: $225.00
Engineering and Design, Water Power
Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co., 1894. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered.....
Price: $150.00
trade catalogue, gas, compress air, science, business history
New York, NY: Chas. Beseler, 1888. A wonderful illustrated scientific trade catalogue of compress air atomizers and gas pumps. There are seventeen (17) engravings throughout the trade catalogue, some of the illustrations are of:a compressed air receiver, novelty air pump, gas compressor, and an inhaling apparatus. This trade catalog was.....
Price: $175.00
Lancaster Mills, Fabric Swatches and Samples
Clinton, Massachusetts: Lancaster Mills, c.1890. An attractive and well-preserved sample of gingham fabric, contained within a lithographed card bifolium with image of a fashionable young lady on the front, and an aerial view of the Lancaster Mills factory on the back. Opposite the fabric sample is a description of the.....
Price: $75.00
Steel Wheelbarrows, Warehouse Trucks, Russel Paper Truck, Stone Car, Forge Shop Truck, Cotton Trucks
Truck Catalogue No. 11-T Lansing - Company. Formerly Lansing Wheelbarrow Company. Lansing Company. Philadelphia. 1913. Soft cover. 86 pp. with 6 additional pages dedicated to coal cars. Handtrucks and carts. Contains Steel Wheelbarrows, Warehouse Trucks, Russel Paper Truck, Stone Car, Forge Shop Truck, Cotton Trucks and more. Black & white.....
Price: $95.00
Advertising, Shoes, Innovation
New York: Massey Revolving Shoe Heel Co., 1880s. An 8" x 5" two-sided leaflet describing the merits of this heel protector. It boasts: It will save from 25 to 50 percent iin boot & shoe bills. It will, in a great degree, prevent slipping on ice. It will support the.....
Price: $45.00
Transportation, Mobilization, Welding
The Indianapolis Switch & Frog Co., 25-Nov-19. A letter from the Indianapolis Switch & Frog Co. to the Maintenance Official of Manchester St. RY (Rail yard) in Manchester, NH, promoting their new high speed mounting device for their Portable Electric Welder. This 'mounting device' was essentially a new trailer for.....
Price: $125.00
cleveland lightning rod company, lightning rod, whaling, insurance,, China Mutual
New Bedford, MA: 1869-1873. A grouping of four items belonging to Joseph Vera, New Bedford, MA. The first is an insurance policy relating specifically to his home being destroyed by fire caused by lightening strikes. The policy is associated with the installation of a Cleveland Lightening Rod and its proper.....
Price: $325.00
construction, ledger, account, building, business history
South Trenton, NY: 1844-1845. A small ledger regarding the expenses, both material and labor, for the construction of an unidentified building along the Nine Mile Creek (also spelled Ninemile Creek) in South Trenton, NY. The owner of the building or the purpose of the building is never specified. The ledger.....
Price: $225.00
circular, advertising, patent, advertisement, industry, engineering
St. Louis, MO: Ripley & Kimball, Agents, [1881-1887]. A circular for the Montgomery Patent Gauge Cock, which is a mechanism on a boiler that helps to determine and relieve the steam/water pressure in a boiler. This flyer has a fine color illustration of the actual gauge cock on the top.....
Price: $110.00
Leather working, Tanners, Machinery
Boston, Massachusetts: Noble & Brooks, c1870s. Illustrated advertising bifolium for Noble & Brooks, "sole agents for the sale of A. Richardson's Patent Union Leather Splitting Machines, also Dealers in Leather, Tanners' & Curriers' Tools". Includes lithographed illustrations of the various tools and their names. Bifolium (10.5" by 8.25"), lithographed on.....
Price: $225.00
circular patent, advertisement, industry, engineering, valves
St. Louis, MO: Ripley & Kimball, Agents, [1881-1887]. A single fold circular for a Straight-Way Valve made by the Pratt & Cady Company. These valves are meant for use in radiators, though whether they are meant for commercial or residential use is unclear. This new style of valves makes "them.....
Price: $95.00
circular, advertising, industrial, steam engines, 1876 Centennial International Exposition, world's fair
Fitchburg, MA: Haskins Steam Engine Co., 1876. Declaring itself as the 5th Annual Circular of its "Prize Engine", this adverting circular is for the Haskins Steam Engine Company's Engine and Boiler. 9. Single fold, circular with an engraving of the engine on the cover. The Haskins Engine and Boiler --Semi.....
Price: $125.00
Urban Development, History of New York
Brooklyn, New York: Queensdale Brokerage Corp. 1962. A listing "of choice parcels of vacant land, located in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island" for sale by the Queensdale Brokerage Corp. Includes maps of the areas, with some parcels marked as "sold", as well as a price sheet with lot numbers and.....
Price: $350.00
Medical Appliances, rubber, medical devices
Manufacturer: I. B. Seeley & Co. Location: Philadelphia, PA Date: 1884 Pages: 78 Subject Matter: Medical Appliances Comprehensive descriptions, some prices, and B&W illustrations of medical devices made from rubber used to relieve various ailments, such as abdominal pain, rheumatic affections, and the 'falling of the bowels.' Covers show heavy.....
Price: $175.00