Three (3) Circulars Advertising Textbooks, Workbooks, and Classroom Ephemera for the 1940s Educator by the Continental Press
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Continental Press, 1944. Very good. Letter folds, toning to envelope.. A set of three (3) advertising circulars sent to a third grade teacher from the Continental Press in the 1940s, providing us today with detailed insight into what material was being published for the classroom c.1944. Each of the circulars measures approx. 11" by 8.5",... Read More
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, A MANUAL OF SUGGESTIONS FOR BEGINNEERS IN LITERATURE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. Lettered in gold and black. Gilt vignette of printing press on front cover. Chapters on publishing methods, securing copyrights, advertising, making of books, specimens of typography, general hints for the author. Illustrated. Several plates of printing presses. 96pp.. First Edition. Brick Pebbled Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Matricentric Feminism
Demeter Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Our Holidays
London: F. Warne & Co., 1870. Warne's Picture Puzzle Toy Books. Heavy cover wear. Puzzles cut and applied. Foxing. Penciling inside cover. Covers attached with archival tape. 6 leaves with applied cutout puzzle pieces. Pictorial wraps 9 1/4" x 10 1/2".. Instructions on inside cover. Depicts busy midway with vendors and acts, farm life, the seashore,... Read More
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Master Henry's Walk
Troy NY: Merriam & Moore, 1851. Minimal wear.. 24pp. . Paper wraps. Hand colored cover decoration. Milner' Toys Series. Nine in-text woodcut engravings, including title page vignette. Adventures with Mr. Dalben and Master Henry Milner. Measures 3 3/4" x 6".
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"Who Comes Here", "A Grenadier". The Nursery Rhymes of Old England
London: Dean & Co., Threadneedle Street, 1840s. Hand colored lithograph on board/heavy stock sheet music with words and music in a central decorative element surrounded by relevant illustrations. Depicts a soldier soldier at an inn keepers door while children look on at top and emulate the should at the base. Decorative elements at sides feature drums with musical instruments... Read More
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Charming Handmade Christmas Letter Album with Family Photos and color Landscape photocards c1910s
1910. A 6" x 4 1/2" handmade album. The covers are constructed of a deeply embossed card with floral border and a photograph of the writer at center. The first page is a printed Christmas greeting , perhaps from a Victorian gift book. Contents includes snippets from and full size color photocards interspersed with manuscript pages and additional pictures;... Read More
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3 Pamphlets- How to Treat Seed Corn,Seed Potatoes and Truck and Garden Crops with Bayer Dipdust and Disinfectants .nd c1922
Three (3) different 2-fold promotional brochures for Bayer seed treatment products, each with illustrations of the product or products being treated. They include How to treat Seed Potatoes with Dipdust, How to treat Truck and Garden Crops with Dipdust and How to treat Seed Corn with Seed Corn Disinfectant. Each guaranteed to produce larger yields with cleaner and better... Read More
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The Sunday School Visiter Volume I.. General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union New York
New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1835. 431 pp. Applied marble cover, leather gilt spine, bound volume of Sunday School Visiter magazine, index in front. Monthly magazine, January through December, fully bound. Each month contains articles, miscellany, stories, instruction, reports, and communications. 6 3/4" x 4 1/2" wear on cover, binding cover ripped on first page,... Read More
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A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 - From her Ever Affectionate Grandchildren
Hand Made Birthday Album - A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 from her ever affectionate Grandchildren Velvet covered album with handmade works demonstrating penmanship, stitchery, watercolor Acrostic Prayer surrounded by a watercolor of the Holy Bible Three (3) pen and ink drawings of a sail boat, a pier, a sack of flour... 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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5 Birthday Odes & 1 Sonnet Written by Samuel R. Wiley, Written Annually to Silas Leach on the Occasion of (Wiley's) Birth 1889-1901 "On the recurrence of my Birthday
A series of correspondence from Samuel R. Wiley, San Francisco, CA to Silas Leach, Wilkes Barre, PA. Each of the Odes and the Sonnet are penned in a lovely hand with calligraphy embellishments at the top. Some with red and black borders. Philosophical and thought provoking works by an octogenarian. A March 2, 1901 letter inquires as to Leach's... Read More
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Der Bierbrauer, beer brewing magazine
Germany, 1904. Collection of 237 beer brewing magazines plus 7 individual separate supplements. 29 are issued monthly and 208 are weekly. Promotion brochures inserted into some magazines with narrative description, imagery and testimonials. Covers depict brewing machinery. Extensive advertisements included descriptions and imagery of products. Content predominantly technical journal articles. Der Bierbrauer Monthly Reports (Berichte) January-July 1899 no.... Read More
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Alice Murphy School Reports for the Day School for Young Ladies and Girls, February 1890 to June 1892 and examination excuse, 1903
New Haven, 1903. A collection of 15 reports for Miss Alice Murphy, 1 excuse from examination card from 1903. Reports from Day School for Young Ladies and Girls, New Haven. Principals: Miss Orton and Miss Nichols. reports are signed A.K. Murphy. Examination excuse card is from 1903 and is signed H.J. Whiton. loose reports, slight creases and staining. ... Read More
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Letters of Mary Adeline in Holliston to Lovina Emerson, 1848-1849
1849. Two letters from Mary in Holliston, MA to her friend, Lovina Emerson, in Southboro [sic], MA. The letters detail the life of Mary and her close relationship with Lovina. The letters are almost two years apart and show the changing lifestyles between the two. Mary is teaching while Lovina is starting a family. They have mutual friends that... Read More
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No. 14 Germania Herb Tea
A 1931 advertisement in the Milwaukee Sentinel “Germania Herb Tea – equally effective hot or iced; you will enjoy drinking it, and you will look and feel years younger. It is not only for reducing, but it is a body normalizer. Tones up the entire system and gives relief for indigestion, gas on the stomach, shortness of... Read More
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1869 Valedictory Address of Toland Medical College, by L.C. Lane Professor of Anatomy. Published at the Request of the Class; Spears & Co. San Francisco. 1869
An 18 pp pamphlet with paper wraps. An address to the Gentleman of the Graduating Class, November 4, 1869. In 1858 California surgeon Elias Samuel Cooper organized the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific with a board of trustees consisting of ten clergymen and three physicians. The first session opened in May 1859, with a class... Read More
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Engraved trade card with a dried sheaf of Italian wheat and a sicle promoting Le Moult's Natural Flower Preserving Laboratory, c1876
A 4 1/2" x 3" engraved advertising trade card depicting a funereal arrangement with "At Rest" atop a sheaf of wheat. Caption at base begins "There is a reaper whose name is Death..." The reverse identifies Le Moult's Natural Flower Preserving Laboratory, New York City and promotes the use of their quality preserved and everlasting flowers that provide permanence... Read More
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An Archive of over 600 pieces of Jacob Meck (1859-1930), prominent merchandising entrepreneur, postmaster, and cigar manufacturer, Meckville, Berks County, PA, 1864-1911
An Archive of over 600 pieces of Jacob Meck (1859-1930), prominent merchandising entrepreneur, postmaster, and cigar manufacturer, Meckville, Berks County, PA, 1864-1911. Jacob Meck, of Pennsylvania, was one of 11 adult children born to Benjamin and Elizabeth Ruth. He operated a grocery store beginning in 1879. He was the postmaster of Meckville, Berks County, PA after being nominated by... Read More
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WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT - Handy Luther & Co. Clothing Ware House
Aegis Office, 1845. Handy, Luther & Co. was founded in 1841, and operated at No. 1, Merchants' Row, off Main Street. This advertisementIs dated Jan. 1, 1845, and was printed by the National Aegis Newspaper that was published in Worcester from 1838 to 1857. Measures 9" x 8 1/2" Housed with mat board. Letter folds, toning.
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A Pair of Photographs - Before and After - Who was Left without a Mate? Litchfield CT., 1888
1888. Two (2) photographs taken of a group of young people while sitting on a porch. It appears as though they are on a holiday or picnic, as several people are holding lawn tennis rackets. The first photo shows a group of thirteen (13) people, some appearing quite affectionate or familiar towards their partner. The second photograph depicts only... Read More
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Scrap Album for Selina Lawrence, 1873-1875, possibly England
Stamped leather cover with decorative edges and "Scrap Album" on cover. Front end paper has an ex-libris Prize award for Miss S. Lawrence for Improvement in Drawing dated July 25, 1873. The first page has the name Selina and 1873 created with drawn flowers. The next is an acrostic poem by Charles Steele or Sheele. The rest of the... Read More
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A Letter to Santa Claus - written in rhyming verse and asking for more for the poor children. A pen and ink letter written on two 9 ½" x 4 ½" stock cut in the shape of a stocking
Two (2) stocking shaped pages tied together with string. Written in pencil at the top is "Robert B." The first paragraph asks Santa "While you are planning for everything nice. Pray let me give you a bit of advice". The next two paragraphs read: Don't take it hard, if I say in your ear, Santa, I think... Read More
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Old Dame and Her Silver Sixpence
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1890. unpaginated. Printed soft cover with cloth spine hand sewn, illustrations, Pleasure Books. An old dame founf a silver sixpence while sweeping her home. She went to town and traded it for a white pig. While trying to get home, the pig refuses to go over the stile. She tries to get a dog to... Read More
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The Mother's Assistant and the Young Ladies Friend, January 1855, Vol. IX No. 1
Stone & Halpine, 1855. 35 pp. Printed soft cover, illustrations, plates. A journal featuring writings, plates, and music. This Volume features a New Years Address, a plate and reading on Christ Preaching on the Mount, writings entitled The Family Constitution, Honor Your Parents, Mary's Grave, Books for Parents, and The New Year's Wish. 10" x 6" toning, edge wear... Read More
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