Industrial, Building & Trades
Vending Machines,Material Culture,Gum balls and Fortunes
Chicago, Illinois: Advance Machine Co., c.1930. Catalogue No. 38 for the Advance Machine Co., makers of Advance Vending Machines made to dispense everything from Books, Candy, Fortunes, and Golf Balls, to Toys, Peanuts, Cigarettes, and even "Electricity" (though we are not sure how this one works). Includes illustrations of forty-five.....
Price: $325.00
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 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
Textile Industry,Weaving Patterns,Industrial Revolution
Lawrence, Massachusetts: 1865. A large collection of weaving patterns for machine-made twill, cloaking, coating, and cassimere textiles recorded by John B. Remick (b.1840) of the textile mill town Lawrence, Massachusetts. Includes dozens of patterns, most with labels such as "Diamond Coating" or "Harness Double Twill", arranged in the form of.....
Price: $400.00
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 Eclipse Huller Gin. Marketed to "Planters and Ginners" as the "Best Huller Gin Made", with improvements on previous iterations. Features large illustration of the product with the name of W.P......
Price: $100.00
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 Scale Co. for a variety of uses: machine shops, blacksmithing, jewelers, mills, mines, farms, farrier work, and railroad work. Each forge and tool is illustrated with pricing, dimensions, and materials.....
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 George H. Holbrook in East Medway, Massachusetts. An interesting and obscure niche in material culture and history, but important items that were essential to keeping time and something average people.....
Price: $150.00
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
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 Muncie, Indiana. Fudge markets his product as "unquestionably the best Telephone of its Class" and "Unequalled for Lines from One to Three Miles in Length". Includes an illustration of the.....
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 steam excavator in in motion. The company markets a purchase of any of its machines as "An Opportunity for Industrious Men" in the agricultural community. Includes price list with horse.....
Price: $325.00
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
Industrial Safety,Trade and Industrial Schools,Health and Safety Education
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, c.1955. An educational booklet for educators and administrators working in industrial and trade schools, offering important information about health and safety for students. Begins with a brief discussion on the prevalence of accidents and the recent call for safety education in schools.....
Price: $200.00
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