Correspondence
eggs, kitchen appliances, business, circular, advertisement, testimonial, correspondence, mailing list
Newburyport, MA: Hale & Company, 1866. A circular filled with testimonials for the Aerifying Egg Beater patented in 1866 and produced by Hale & Company in Newburyport, MA. The first page has a wonderful woodcut of the manufacturing building of Hale & Co., along with a description of of the.....
Price: $175.00
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
Satan, Devil Iconography, Thermos
Norwich, Connecticut: American Thermos Company, 1915. Illustrated letterhead for the American Thermos Company, featuring a rather fabulous 1908 illustration of the devil and what appears to be an anthropomorphized snowman holding thermoses with the caption "It is never too hot or too cold for the man with a thermos bottle".....
Price: $200.00
correspondence, drawings
1921. A plyaful yet instructive letter from a father to a daughter who presumably is away with her mother. Perhaps she is recovering from an injury. It begins with the father acknowledging how his daughter’s improved use of her hands and encouraging her to continue. It proceeds to discuss a......
Price: $85.00
Methodist, Australia, nursing, gender roles, England
Washington, DC: 1900- 1913. A collection of 14 letters, written to Eliza Grace Jeffries (1840-1917). While originally born in England, Eliza and her younger brother, Rev Peter Jeffries immigrated to America in 1899. Peter served as pastor to several congregations of the next sixteen years in the Virginia, Baltimore and.....
Price: $350.00
manuscripts, correspondence
1901-1903. June 25, 1901 – South Lowestoft Discussion: · Birthday wishes · Bird egg collection · Lots of questions on classmates and activities · Attending games in motor cars · The New English Stamps · The ferry rockets Illustrations: · Greaves at his desk composing letter with lots of questions.....
Price: $450.00
correspondence, teacher, education, courtship, cut outs, programs, invite, invites, invitation, grammar school, public school
Belmont, NY: 1897 - 1911. Blanche Annis Leavitt (1881 - ?) was a teacher at Belmont Grammar School in in the early 1900s. The collection includes various correspondence and ephemera associated with her time at Belmont Grammar School, from her students to her co-workers, to her family. The bulk of.....
Price: $115.00
IBM, History of Computing
New York, New York: International Business Machines Corporation, 1939-1940. Two (2) early IBM memoranda, dated 1939 and 1940, on company letterhead specific to the Electric Accounting Machine Division. The first, "Commercial Research Bulletin # 32-A", consists of 9 leaves of typewritten instructions for how to operate the Alphabetic Accounting Machine.....
Price: $375.00
Sales and Marketing, History of American Business, Art Deco
Racine, Wisconsin: S.C. Johnson & Son, 1916. Typewritten letter on S.C. Johnson & Son illustrated company letterhead urging a Michigan hardware store to follow up on a potential order of Johnson's Artistic Wood Finishes. Signed in black ink by S. Collier. Measures 11" by 8.5"; verso blank. The illustrated letterhead.....
Price: $50.00
Lady Liberty, Telephone, Communications History and Technology
New York, New York: The Lambert Schmidt Telephone Mfg. Co., 1900. An artifact of early telephone history: a letter from an agent for Commercial Construction Co. to a client, enclosing ephemera with pricing for telephones. The ephemera consists of: one copy of a typewritten letter quoting prices for telephones produced.....
Price: $350.00
correspondence, bath house, dipsy baths, travel and tourism, letterhead,
Kennebunk Beach, ME: 4-Sep-25. A brief letter written on a letterhead from The Dipsy Baths in Kennebunk Beach, ME. A printed black and white photograph of the bathhouses with an American Flags blowing in the wind and several cars in front. The letter is written to Hiram from an unknown.....
Price: $60.00
Women's Fashion Design
[Hendersonville, North Carolina]: March 23rd, 1908. A letter written to "Dearest" from "Your devoted friend", giving the heartbreaking news of the death of an acquaintance, Mrs. Gurley of Hendersonville (tragically, her husband Professor E.W. Gurley would die later that year in November, leaving their daughter Fayetta Gurley orphaned). The author.....
Price: $225.00
New England, Massachusetts, Manuscript, Correspondence, Westward Expansion, Emigration, Education, Teaching, Women's Work
Massachusetts: 1819-1847. A group of fourteen (14) manuscript letters addressed to Anna Angier Fay (1787-1827) and her daughter Lavinia H. Fay (dates unknown) of Southborough, Massachusetts. Senders include Anna's sister Eliza Angier Warriner of Frankfort, Maine, and friends of Lavinia. Four of the letters are from Eliza, who writes Anna.....
Price: $425.00
poetry, friendship, correspondence
Rhode Island or Bellow Falls, VT: [1820]. A poem entitled "On Society" transcribed for Ruth Howland by her "sincere friend", S. Brown. The poem talks of friendship and the pleasure of social bonds. Below are a few of the poems stanzas: "Hail social converse! source of purest pleasure, Sweet and.....
Price: $145.00
color meeting, african american, yorktown, health, woman's health, correspondence, chuch, religion
Yorktown: January 1869. A pair of letters from Emily to her family keeping them appraised of her trip to Yorktown [NY] in January 1869. The two letters are written within a day of one another, with one addressed to her parents and one to her brother. The family's last name.....
Price: $175.00
Georgia, the South, Women's Life, Reconstruction Era
Atlanta, Georgia: 1868. The double sided letter to the writer's mother shares an update about their life and gossip. The letter is written on Memphis and Charleston Railroad Letterhead from Atlanta, Georgia during the period of Reconstruction. The writer discusses recent illness, a bad cold, and general news about the.....
Price: $65.00
Correspondence, Argentina, Daily life, Argentina countryside
Buenos Aires, Argentina: February 1855. In early 1855, a husband and wife, moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Estancia del Folag with their two sons, Hasen and Jonathan. The collection contains three letters, comprised of eighteen pages, written to the wife's friend. Color vignette on first page with stationer's embossing on.....
Price: $175.00
Libraries and Institutions, Natural History
Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Lyceum and Library Association, c.1858. Printed letter to the Friends of Worcester Lyceum and Library Association requesting volunteers to aid in the Association's upcoming Christmas Fair: "The Fair Committee therefore ask the ladies of Worcester County to contribute such articles of skill, taste and usefulness as will.....
Price: $100.00
land development, agricultural, correspondence, business history, caterpillar tractor, billheads and letterheads
San Francisco, CA: El Rico Land Company, 11-Dec-19. A letter to a Mr. Peter Goettsch of Nicolaus, CA, regarding payment of his dividends in the El Rico Land Company. Originally enclosed with this letter was check for $400. The letter is on a specialized letterhead, meant for exactly this type.....
Price: $85.00
weather, government, military history, science & technology, war department, agriculture
Washington DC: War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Office, December 27, 1877. A weather bulletin for December 27, 1877 put out by US War Department, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, a Division of the Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. Although this bulletin.....
Price: $75.00
Social History, Women's History
Camp Hill, ALA: 1915. Two letters from Alice G. Teele, an instructor at The Southern Industrial Institute, for the Training of White Youth writing to Mrs. Eugene Howlett, Charleston SC. The content relates to what appears to be the socially prominent of the area and there comings and going; politely.....
Price: $95.00
correspondence, deathbed, morality, death, goodbye
Alexandria, NJ: 1900. In 1900 Annie Pegg wrote a letter to her husband and two children Sarah and James on her supposed deathbed (she would actually live until 1914 and have another child, Elizabeth). It is unknown if she was actually severely ill or just over dramatic, however the letter.....
Price: $50.00
traveling salesman, hotel, correspondence
Bushton, KA: 6-Dec-09. A six page letter written by a traveling salesman named Augustus, who is delayed in the small town of Bushton, KS, which is located north west of Wichita, KS. He is writing to his sister, Mrs. Emma J. Newton, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. It appears.....
Price: $150.00
legal, correspondence, Lincoln country, government
Lincoln County, ME: Lincoln County Court of Maine, 1828-1853. A collection of seventeen (17) legal summons to the Constables of various towns in Lincoln County, Maine. The summons date from April 1828 to July 1853 and were sent by the Clerk of the Court for Lincoln County, ME, which during.....
Price: $350.00