Vacation Notes - Pyrography Decorated Suede Cover Depicting the exterior of "The Northfield", Northfield MA, July 3 - 12, 1898
A 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" suede cover with suede tie binding. The cover is pyrography decorated and depicts the exterior and grounds of the Northfield Chateau. The journey begins with the traveler leaving Springfield MA at 3:30 pm on July 3, 1898. Based on the content of the 20 pencil written pages it appears that the gentleman was... Read More
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3 Promotional Items Le Thermogene: Capsicum Cotton wadding to treat ailments
Paris: Le Thermogene, 1900. The pamphlet has a crease mark from where it has been folded in half in the past. The booklet's staple is missing, and as such all the pages are loose. All items show toning and soiling due to age.. A collection of three items (in French) advertising 'Le Thermogene' a patent medicine product that... Read More
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Gretchen's Home
Pittsburgh PA: William G. Johnston Company, 1920. A die-cut litho on heavy card stock home with a quasi-tudor style. Complete in a glassine sleeve with directions for building affixed to the sleeve. Besides the pieces for the house includes a 2 1/2" figure; Gretchen to be cut-out and stood next to the house. Unused. Sleeve measures 14" x 10... Read More
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Invitation, Ticket and Dance Card for First Annual Kansas City Flambeau Club
Kansas City: Lisk's Print, 1885. Light wear.. A group of ephemera from the first annual ball for the Kansas City Flambeau Club. It includes an invitation with a "flambeau" or torch image at center, a lavender color ticket and a single fold dance card with an illustration of a scroll on the front cover with cherubs and elaborate... Read More
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Illustrated Letterhead with specifications for "turned stuff" for hoops with handles
Bound Brook, NJ: The Princess Hoop Manufacturing Co, 1882. Wear and inking on cover; Letter folds.. The letterhead has two vignettes printed in red of children with hoops with handles identified as The Normandy and The Princess. It is for the Princess Hoop Manufacturing Co, office of J. L. M. DuFour and I. R. Edgar. The letter is... Read More
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The Token Album, A Friendship Album of Addie A Allen, 1858-1864, Connecticut "Opened to friendship-- But not to flattery
New York: John C. Riker, 1860. Front cover detached. The back strip to the album is damage, and mostly missing, as a result the binding is also damaged. There leather covers are damaged, mostly due to rubbing. Front cover mostly detached. Interior pages are toned and soiled due to age.. A friendship album of Addie A. Allen who... Read More
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8 Tickets for the Democratic Republican General Committee
Tammany Hall, New York City, 1886-1890. An electioneering organization affiliated with Tammany and the county Democrats. It owned a club house and much like a European "party of integration" it implicated itself in the social life of its members: conducting excursions and clambakes, and involving the wives and children of members in its activities". In an effort to counter the... Read More
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2 vinegar valentines - Maids and Bobbies - 1 original art
England: Unknown, 1870. One printed and hand colored and one original art Penny Dreadful valentines with the same theme -- the maid is smitten with the Bobbie and he is smitten with her fare - from mutton to beer. The first, single-fold, with the maid having the upper hand atop the wall reads "I love you, I love... Read More
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Camp Tonka'wa for Boys, Juniors and Seniors
Chautauqua, NY, 1934. Age toning and soiling.. 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 study, drama, horseback riding,... Read More
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Decorative Beadwork on Victorian Playing Card Holder - Sword, Axe and Shield
Minimal edge wear. Light paper fad on underside.. A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a sword,... Read More
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Decorative Beadwork on Victorian Playing Card Holder - Flute, Lyre, Music Book
Minimal edge wear. Light paper fad on underside.. A 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" litho on pressed board box with inner sleeve for holding playing cards. The top surface is perforated or punch paper (20 punch holes/inch) with embossed die-cut gilt border. The beadwork design is created using miniature glass and metal beads. The scene depicts a lyre,... Read More
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Jolly Animal ABC - Alphabet Series # 20
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1890. Light to moderate wear. The #20 following Alphabet Series is written in pen. Additionally inscribed 3.50. Upper right.. 12 pp. Illustrated wraps with an illustration on the cover of a circus clown dancing with a bear. 6 pp. black and white text pages with alphabet listings of animals with illustrations and relevant rhyming... Read More
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Almanach des Beautes de la Femme pour 1906
Paris, 1905. Supplement Aux Beautes de La Femme. A 44pp. booklet with paper wraps. Includes images from photographs of nude young ladies. French text. Images in black and white or pink tone. Four pages of almanac each with nude. Remainder of booklet includes text and images of one or two women together often in loving poses. Artfully... Read More
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Scarce - The Virtuous Girl with 2 Two-Sided Paper Dolls and 8 Costumes
Vienna Austria: H. F. Muller, 1850. Box is lacking. Light to moderate wear. In the traditional German manner of the day the the set includes two (2) identical 6 3/4" paper dolls and eight (8) two-sided costumes. Each costume is printed on polished paper and involves an activity. Light egg wash finish. The costumes were dubbed Pretty, Diligence,... Read More
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Bye! Baby Bunting. The Nursery Rhymes of Old England
London: Dean & Co., 1840s. Hand colored lithograph on board/heavy stock sheet music with words and music in a central decorative element surrounded by relevant illustrations. Depicts and child at home with vignettes of father on a rabbit hunt. Base shows the successful return of the father. Price marked at base - 2 pence plain, 3 pence colored. Age... Read More
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Collection of Books Related to Fiji from Library of Clellan S. Ford, American Anthropologist, Co-founder of the cross-cultural Survey, 1930s
Mixed; well read. Twenty (20) different titles from the estate of Clellan S. Ford, an American anthropologist, best known as Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Ford spent a year in the Fiji Islands conducting ethnographic field research. He then joined the Institute of Human Relations at Yale, where he co-founded the cross-cultural Survey. The titles include Flight... Read More
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Why I Live in the Neighborhood Gardens, A Flyer for Apartments
St. Louis, MO: Neighborhood Gardens Apartments, 1935. General wear. Light damage.. This single fold pamphlet advertises for the Neighborhood Gardens which is an apartment complex located in St. Louis that was first built in 1935, and is still an existence today. The front page of this pamphlet lists eighteen (18) reasons why someone would want to live there,... Read More
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Christmas Activity Book
Philadelphia, ca 1952. Cardboard Covers. Text block separated from cover. Half separation at top fold on cover.. A vibrantly colored unpaginated chidren's Christmas activity book complients of N. Snellenburg & Co. and Santa Claus...Printed on pulp or short fiber paper. Six (6) color pages, remainder black and white line drawings.s Begins with verse A Visit to Toyland by... Read More
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Friendship Album Belonging to India Missionary Amelia Mercy Newton Little, circa 1841-1847, from Sherburne, NY
New YorkPrinting & Publishing: J C Riker, 1840. General wear. Rubbing. Stains on covers. Tape repair to binding. Some folios are loose. New endpapers. Minor foxing.. To the Dear Brother or Sister to whom this album may be allotted. I would gladly have kept this because it was prized by my dear Amelia, but considering the uncertainty of... Read More
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Rewards of Merit - Ward School, No. 26 and 41
A collection of five (5) engraved Rewards of Merit from Ward School No. 26. Awarded to Angeline Chapin, 1852-1854. 38 Greenwich Ave., North Ward, New York City. Primary Department. Also includes a sixth reward from New York Ward School No. 41 , May 1851. The engraving depicts a boy leaning on the world and a girl on a lectern... Read More
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The Story of the Three Bears
Kenosha: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946. Very Good. Kenosha: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946. Very Good. Charles Thorson. 32 pp. with both color and B&W illustrations top half of page and in-text. There is some slight wear on the edges of the dust jacket. Thick card covers with colored illustration that shows the three bears looking into their... Read More
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The Counting Rhymes Book
Racine: Whitman Publising Company, 1938. Very Good. An unnumbered 12 page illustrated sewed linen-like paper story book (including covers) that are full of rhymes meant to help a child learn to count. Published by Whitman, it has the number 943 printed on the back cover. Each rhyme is accompanied by a colorful illustration by Margot Voigt. Some toning... Read More
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Get Well Card with recipe for Easy Cherry Tarts..
1940. A 6" x 5" french-fold greeting card with applied die-cut of cherries on the front cover. Captioned "Cheery" Get Well Wishes" with printed cross-stich cherry orchard. The inside depicts additional cherry trees and a wish As bright as a bowl of Cherries for a prompt recovery. The back page, somewhat surprisingly has a recipe for eAsy Cherry Tarts.... Read More
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Four (4) menus with original envelopes for the First through Fourth Annual Dinners of the Veteran Association of the Hartford City Guard plus an announcement and dance card associated with the events 1868-1871
Four (4) different menus for the annual dinner of the association. Each menu with the first being January 8, 1868 includes the Officers, Music, Bill of Fare and Programme of the Evening. Each menu measures 8 3/4" x 6 1/4". Each with it's original envelope. Also includes an announcement for the meeting to adopt the Constitution and elect Officers... Read More
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Window Display - Victory Girls - Girls to Earn and Give to Make Our Fighters Fit
United War Work Campaign, 1918. An 11 3/4" x 8" paper window display depicting an eagle atop a banner. It reads " A girl from this home has enrolled in the VICTORY GIRLS to earn and give to make our fighters fit". United War Work Campaign surrounds the banner. Reverse is blank. United War Work Campaign of November 11-18,... Read More
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