Thirty-One (31) Finely Wrought Botanical Paintings Charting Progress of Art Student at Girls' School in Portland, Maine c.1850
by E. Slater
Portland, Maine, 1850. Good to very good. Some toning, dust soiling, short tears or nicks. Sewing a little loose. Minor wear.. A fine group of artwork completed by a student for her lessons at Mrs. L.K. Wells' High School for Misses in Portland, Maine (also referred to as the "Park Street Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies", at 36... Read More
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Stoppa Matchen! Davis Cup Protest Against Chilean Military 1973
by Kjartan Slettemark
Sweden: Wailen Datnolm Boktr, 1975. The linen the poster is mounted on is fraying on the edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Title: Stoppa Matchen! (Stop the Match) Designer: Kjartan Slettemark (Norwegian) Printer: Wailen Datnolm Boktr. AB, Lund 1975 Year: 1975 Image from photograph of observers in a stadium with an armed guard in the foreground. A tennis racket... Read More
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Electric Toy Making for Amateurs, including batteries, magnets, motors, miscellaneous toys and dynamo construction. T. O'Conor Sloane Norman W. Henley & Co New York
by T. O'Conor Sloane
New York: Norman W. Henley & Co, 1892. 140 pp. blue cover with silver gilt, fully illustrated. The book describes how to create electric toys. Contains 14 chapters including Permanent Magnets, Electric Bells, and Miscellaneous Receipts and Formulae. Has a preface by author and advertising at end. 7" x 5 1/2" slight wear on cover, tear on inside cove,... Read More
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Mohonk Lake Mountain House, 1893 Season
by Albert K. Smiley
New Paltz, NY, 1893. General wear and toning. Minor tear to edge of one interior page.. The Mohonk Lake Mountain House, now known as Mohonk Mountain House, was founded by twin brothers Albert K. and Alfred H. Smiley in 1869 after the pair fell in love with the picturesqueness beautiful landscape. It became, and still is, one of... Read More
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Practical Instructions in Enamel Painting on Glass, China, Tiles,etc., to which is added full instructions for the manufacture of the vitreous pigments required. Henry James Snell Brodie & Middleton London
by Henry James Snell
London: Brodie & Middleton, 1874. 94 pp. Green embossed gilt cover, has both blank and gold text and images, 12 color plates including frontispiece and some illustration among text. Instructions for painting on glass, china, and tile. Includes how to make and apply stain, firing, types of porcelain, and gilding china. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" some discoloration, loose... Read More
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The Leathercraftsman; A textbook on Leatherworks
by W.E. Snyder
Worcestor: Graton & Knight Co, 1936. 176 pp. faux leather wrapper. A treatise on leather working by W. E. Snyder who was the director at Graton & Knight Leathercraft Studios in Massachusetts. In sixteen (16) chapters, complete with B&W photographs, diagrams and line drawings showing patterns and examples of leather work at various stages of completion. As well as... Read More
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The Busy Housemaid Paper Dolls
by Good-Will Soap
Lynn, MA: Geo. E. March Co., M.F. Tobin (litho), 1888. Lacking Friday and Saturday dolls. Three (3) are cut-out and constructed.. Two (2) uncut 7" x 4" advertising paper doll sheets and three (3) cut paper dolls from the Busy Housemaid series presented by Good-Will Soap. Beneath the Busy Housemaid title is a list of days and related... Read More
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Naively Dressed Print from Women's Fashion Magazine - High Fashion of the Day
by S.O. Beeton, Publisher
London : Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, 1864. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (EDM) was a magazine published by Samuel Orchart Beeton from 1852 to 1879, with a supplement written by his wife, Mrs. Beeton, between 1859 and 1861: these supplements were later collected as her Book of Household Management. His intention was that it should "tend to the improvement of the... Read More
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Sunshine Year Book
by Compilers - International Sunshine Society
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Branch of the Sunshine Society, 1908. An unpaginated 8" x 5" booklet. Copyright 1908. Lulu A. Crawford. Cover depicts California Poppies with inset of sun rising over the mountains. The title page reads "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. "Twas not given for you alone--Pass it on. Let it travel down the... Read More
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Gilt Morocco Glove Box of Louise Sommer
by Joseph Sommer
Heidelberg, Germany, 1853. Fine; only minor rubbing to extremities.. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example with cream silk and crushed red silk interior. Measures 9.5" by 6.25" by 2"; ticket of Joseph Sommer to interior.
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![Map of Part of Thornrose Cemetery [in] Staunton, Virginia showing changes made during the years [1899-1903]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/267/345/1687345267.0.m.jpg)
Map of Part of Thornrose Cemetery [in] Staunton, Virginia showing changes made during the years [1899-1903]
by T.J. Collins & Son
Richmond, Virginia: A. Hoen & Co, 1903. Very good. Some dust soiling, a couple nicks.. A lithographed map from 1903 showing a plan of Thornrose Cemetery [in] Staunton, Virginia, showing changes made to the property between 1899 and 1903. Depicts changes to pathways and roadways. Includes three (3) inset photos of the cemetery, and a key/index. Measures approx.... Read More
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![1814 Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock, Burned on the night of January 26th, 1883](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/753/878/1664878753.0.m.jpg)
1814 Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock, Burned on the night of January 26th, 1883
by S.P.
Paris, Maine: The Oxford Democrat, 1883. Very good. Minor staining, toning.. An offprint, originally published in the April 3rd, 1883 issue of the Oxford Democrat, of "Recolections [sic] of the Chase School House, Woodstock [Maine]" which burned to the ground on January 26th, 1883. Includes a listing of all of the teachers employed by the school in all... Read More
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Original Art - Kitchen Alchemy - Moral: Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All
by Henry Stahlhut
A 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All". The illustration depicts an inebriated chef laid out on a counter drinking champagne... Read More
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A Friendship Album Belonging to Mary Ann Pratt, Livonia, 19 Oct. 1829
by Mary Ann Pratt Stanley
friendship album, poetry, women's history, motherhood, infant death A friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813- c.1880) who lived in Livonia, NY, dating from 1829-1835. The majority of the album entries are from 1830-1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville, NY, though there are a few entries... Read More
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Armour's Star Frankfurters Links of Goodness - Mechanical Hot Dog Bun
by Armour's Star
1905. The front panel features a drawn colored illustration of men, women, and an automobile waiting in line for Armour's Star Frankfurters. The inside panels features a colored illustration of a pop-up roll revealing a frankfurter inside a bun. Below the pop-up are a few paragraphs promoting the hot dog. The rest of the inside panels are dedicated to... Read More
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Address of the Subject of Peace, Delivered at the Odeon, On Sabbath Evening, February 7, 1836. On the Anniversary of the Bowdoin Street Young Men's Peace Society
by Rufus P. Stebbins
Boston, MA: William Peirce, 1936. General wear. Appears to be missing its blue wrappers.. The item is a copy of an address given by Rev. Rufus P. Stebbins, (1810-1885), a member of Harvard Divinity School on the society's first anniversary in 1836. His speech was considered to be an attack against the concept of a "defensive war". That... Read More
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Original Art - 4 Dollhouse Rooms, Furniture and Paper Doll Occupants - Dining-Room, Sitting-Room, The Nursery and Bedroom - Arts & Craft Influence
by Harriet Steensen
1910. Light edge wear from handling.. Childhood Architecture, Paper Playthings, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Made by Hand Executed in watercolor, pen and ink with pencil narrative and instructions. Each room includes an exterior wall with windows appropriately adorned, furnishing to construct and in three instances the paper doll occupants, including costumes for "sister" who is in the sitting room with her... Read More
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1888. spine loose, wear on cover, loose pages, . 136 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations of machines and three tables of European isobars.XX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge.10" x 7"
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1887. 186 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations and plates. XIX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" wear on cover,
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Bayerisches Industrie- & Gewerbeblatt (Bavarian Industry and Trade Sheet: weekly periodical with quarterly issues from the committee of the polytechnic association in Munich)
by H. Steinach
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1888. 136 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations of machines and three tables of European isobars. XX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" spine loose, wear on cover, loose pages,
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Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography by Mrs. T.B.H. Stenhouse
by Fanny Warn Stenhouse
Hartford, Connecticut: A.D. Worthington & Co, 1875. Good. Some surface wear to binding, toning and spotting, frontispiece loose.. Second edition of an autobiography, with preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe, penned by the wife of an early Mormon leader and missionary. Fanny Warn Stenhouse (1829-1904), was excommunicated from the LDS Church alongside her husband in 1870, after which they... Read More
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Flyer for the The Tabernacle of Witness, An Engraving
by Cora Massie Stephens
St. Louis, MO: W. E. Stephens, 1895. Age toning and crease marks at fold.. A flyer for the sale of "The Tabernacle of Witness", an engraving done by Cora Massie Stephens (1856-1943). The engraving was being sold by William Edward Stephens (1850-1918), Cora's husband and owner of W. E. Stephens & Co. (eventually renamed Stephens Lithographing and Engraving... Read More
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A Child's Garden of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Chicago, IL: M A Donohue & Co, 1916. 302 pp. Cloth cover with a stamped black and red illustrations of a flowering plant. Heavily illustrated and decorated by Myrtle Sheldon. The book is a collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood, each paired with an illustration. Measures 7 1/2" x 6" Covers show minor... Read More
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Making Use of Our Birds
by O.A. Stevens
Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota Agricultural College Extension Service, 1938. Very good. Toned, wrappers loose and chipped.. A late 1930s monograph on ornithology in North Dakota by O.A. Stevens of the North Dakota Agricultural College. The monograph argues birds are essential to agriculture for many reasons, chief among which is that they eat pests and insects associated with... Read More
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Watercolor Handmade Reward of Merit - Floral Vine Border Decoration for Nethaniel Kimball
by M. P. Stickney
1850. A 2" x 2 1/4" record of merit that reads "Nethaniel Kimball by excelling those of his class in spelling merits the approbation of his Instructor - M. P. Stickney. Delicate watercolor border decoration with eternal vine and purple and pink flowers.
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