Medicine, Science & Technology
wanted poster
A poster with three different images from photographs of the individual, who is a professional nurse who claims to be a physician. Among his aliases “Nativity Hollander” Includes a comprehensive description including an active quick and nervous disposition, slightly bow legged. It also lists his relative with addresses. Issued by.....
Price: $75.00
Graphic Design, Medication, Social and Cultural History
Japan: 1920s-1930s. This group of 14 vividly illustrated medicine packets designed for the Japanese market. Besides the printed product information,the imagery is often relevant to the ailment depicting coughing, holding an aching head or tooth or a demon taking hold of or seizing the body. The little packet with a......
Price: $350.00
AIDS, HIV, AIDs epidemic, informational pamphlets, health, social services,
Boston, MA: AIDS Action Committee, [1985]. A pair of pamphlets, entitled "What Do We Know About AIDS?" and "Guidelines for AIDS Risk Reduction - Update", both produced by the AIDS Action Committee, now known as AIDS Action. Original formed by Fenway Community Health as a response to the AIDS epidemic.....
Price: $125.00
medicine, patent medicine, advertising, illustration art, Leonetto Cappiell
Paris: Le Thermogene, c1900. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that was meant to help with a variety of ailments such as coughing, bronchitis, flue, sore throat, colds, joint pains, and rheumatism. The product was a heating pad that was composed of.....
Price: $150.00
Mobile Homes, Do-It-Yourself
Saginaw, Michigan: Mershon & Morley, 1900. Printed bifolium advertisement (8.5" by 5.5") for "Portable Houses" produced by Mershon & Morley of Saginaw, Michigan. First leaf features a printed testimonial letter from a happy customer, promoting the ease of the structure's assembly; the second leaf features an illustration of the fully.....
Price: $115.00
General Motors, Vehicles
Oakland, California: Walker Parccar Co., 1930s. Illustrated advertising pamphlet for the Walker Parccar Parking System, a clever mechanism that, when attached to the undercarriage of a vehicle, allows the driver to swing it into even the tightest of parking spaces. Includes photos of the product in use, as well as.....
Price: $175.00
Patent medicines, Quack medicines
New York: M.J. Breitenbach Co., c.1900. Advertising booklet for an iron- and manganese-based patent medicine, Gude's Pepto-Mangan, beginning with sweeping statements about the history of medicine: "Ever since the art of medicine emerged from its chrysalis stage of mysticism, mummery and moonshine, iron in some form has been administered .......
Price: $125.00
Asthma, Pulmonary, antispasmodic medicines
Meadville, Pennsylvania: Dr. J.D. Stoneroad & Co., c.1889. Advertising flyer (8.75" by 5.5") for Sozone, an antispasmodic for the treatment of asthma as well as "spasmodic croup, whooping cough, or hacking cough of phthisis, and in all spasmodic cases where the pneumogastric nerve is involved" (verso). On the recto is.....
Price: $125.00
Glyco-Thymoline, quack medicine, remedy
A single-fold 6 ¼” x 3” flyer for Glyco-Thymoline, an alkaline antiseptic for the efficient treatment of inflammatory conditions of mucous membrane in all parts of the body, by Kress & Wren Company. 316-363 Pearl Street, New York. The front cover is an image from a photograph of an Edwardian.....
Price: $85.00
advertising, medicine, pharmacist, music, song card
Bridgeport, OH: H. E. Wells & Co., [1885]. An advertising card for H. E. Wells & Co., a family druggist from Bridgeport, OH. Based on the brief description on the card, it appears as though Wells sold remedies for both humans and farm animals, like horses and cattle. On the.....
Price: $100.00
antacid, advertisement, health & welfare, medicine
Toronto, Canada: Carter, Cummings, & Co., c1920. An advertisement for Al-Caroid, which was an antacid containing the vegetable digestive ferment caroid. One side of the ad has a color illustration depicting the antacid being mixed into a class of water, with the caption "flavor unusually pleasing, no sickly alkaline taste".....
Price: $125.00
Metallurgy, Decorative Wire Work
[Boston, Massachusetts]: Oliver Whyte & Co., c.1890. Handbill advertising decorative wire window guards for "stores, dwellings, school-houses, &c." as well as "ornamental patterns for Bank and Office railings", wire netting and cloths. Two illustrated examples of the products on offer are featured towards the head of the handbill. Measures 8.5".....
Price: $150.00
Carriages, Transportation, Hand colored
London: Dean & Co. Threadneedle, 1844. 15 pp. illustrated wraps. Includes six (6) hand colored full-page and one half page engravings of an array of carriages. Each with a single page narrative description. They include a State Carriage, a Mail Coach, A Sovereign, A Cabriolet, A Pony-Chaise, An Omnibus, A......
Price: $325.00
lettersheet, Eastman place, engraving, manor
Poughkeepsie, NY: [1880]. A single fold unused lettersheet with a black and white illustration depicting the Eastman Place, the home of Harvey G. Eastman (1832-1878) in Poughkeepsie, NY. The image shows a the house in the distance, surrounded by manicured grounds and large trees. There is a stone walkway that.....
Price: $60.00
Naturopathy, Blood-Washing, Alternative Medicine
New YOrk: Dr. Benedict Lust Publishing Co., 1923. Popular. Edition. Lesson 1. 26 pp. Stiff wrap with image from photograph of Lust. The treatment includes a show with a special shower head at 8 to 14 feet with special attention to the stomach and intestine, followed by a bath, an.....
Price: $95.00
Public Health, Hygiene
[Worcester, Massachusetts?]: c1920. Small broadside (11" by 5.25", verso blank) promoting a lecture by a physician, Dr. Dart, "Upon the Subject of Dirt & Contagion, at the Baptist Church. He will show you what causes Diphtheria, Fevers, and all contagious diseases; that myriads of Organic Germs causing disease are contained.....
Price: $175.00
Catalogue, Circular, Watchmaker, Business and Industry
Pittsburgh, PA: 1844. A 4pp circular featuring images, narrative and pricing information on the Self-Generating Gas Blow-Pipe Lamp, Bush's Wheel Protector, Roller Remover, Ruby Pin Adjuster, Movement and Fan Washers, Material Cup, Pivot Wire and Case Spring Extractor. For sale at Goddard, Hill & Co. Jewelry. Pittsburgh, PA. Measures 8.....
Price: $125.00
Dentistry, Advertising & Promotion
New York: c1900. Two (2) different business cards for very different dentists in New York. One for a Veterinary Dentist operating on diseases of the teeth for coughing, frothing at mouth, discharge at nose, hide bound, scouring, running at eyes, tossing head, driving on one line, cribbing, bolting, baulking, shying.....
Price: $50.00
Nature, Lepidopterology, Entomology, Butterflies, Taxonomy and Classification, Collecting, Plastics, Specimen preservation
Wellesley, Massachusetts: Denton Bros. 1902. A fascinating look into the collection of an amateur lepidopterologist. Here, a copy of The Butterfly Hunter's Guide (9.5" by 7", [20] pp., original printed wrappers) is accompanied by two (2) contemporary German advertising circulars (11.5" by 8.75") for mail-order butterfly specimens, as well as.....
Price: $1,400.00
boys camp, fishing, camping, swimming
Chautauqua, NY: 1934. Camp Tonka'wa, pronouced Ton-ka-wa, was an all boys camp in upstate New York. There the boys would spend their summer camping in tents on raised wooden platforms participating in a variety of activities, such as tennis, golf, swimming, boating and canoeing, aquaplaning (a form of water-skiing), nature.....
Price: $90.00
Infectious Disease, Communicable Disease, Diphtheria, Public Health
[1910s]. A 4pp circular on diphtheria pre-vaccination. It provides a general explanation of the communication of the disease and how to prevent and control spread of the disease. The second paragraph reads "S generally is diphtheria regarded as due to unsanitary conditions, that by common consent it is classed among.....
Price: $125.00
Health and wellness Sanitariums, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Diseases, Public Health, Contagion
Chicago, Illinois: City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, 1932. Vol. 12, Nos. 7-12 inclusive of the City of Chicago's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Bulletin, subtitled "What You Should Know About Tuberculosis". Marketed towards the general public, the pamphlet discusses the disease in detail and focuses on information that aids in Chicago's.....
Price: $135.00
Patent Medicines, Circus, Spectacle, Word Puzzles
Lowell, Massachusetts: C.I. Hood & Co., c.1900. An exceedingly scarce illustrated advertising booklet for Hood's Sarsparilla, including a charming short story that captures all the excitement and spectacle of going to the circus. "A Clown's Romance" is printed on the versos, and descriptions of Hood's medicines and ailments treated are.....
Price: $95.00
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